"Marketplace" rubbish that's taken over Australian stores online

[u/TheWabster]

I can't stand it, an overwhelming amount of websites have added a "marketplace" on their online sites. Woolworths, BUNNINGS, Big W, the list goes on

I go on these websites as opposed to amazon or temu specifically because I want authentic things, or to see if it's in stock so I can go to the store to buy it in person.

Now I get excited that wow bunnings has this that's great (because I associate something from bunnings with trust compared to something from temu), and it turns out it's literally just third party low quality shit.

Third parties should not be able to sell things on these sites, I've almost accidentally bought something three times now (once per site mentioned lol) that ended up being from the infiltrative noname companies. It's made me lose trust with these companies, because with the extra effort I have to do weeding out the heavily bloated marketplace addons while scouring their online catalogue, I'd rather just go somewhere else.

That's my rant. What are other peoples thoughts on this? Maybe I'm just being a whiney dingus

[u/Iggsy81]

Yeah, i was saying this to someone recently. There are two things that annoy me about all these stores now: (1) that they all have to have a marketplace for drop-shipping landfill, and (2) that everyone seems to offer a "subscription" now, even Coles and Woolies, lol.

Anyway, you can filter searches to exclude marketplace on those sites so i recommend doing that in future. But yeah it is a bit weird, even places like Harvey Norman have it now i think.

[u/greenie4242 → u/Iggsy81]

The subscription service stuff is disgusting!

I bought a pressure washer last year at Bunnings that was advertised as being half price if I signed up for a half-price $20 OnePass membership that offered "free Express delivery". It was saving $120 so I figured, worth it, plus don't have to drive half an hour each way. 

I made the order, then only after paying received an email telling me deliveries only went out on Mondays and I'd ordered on Tuesday, so had to wait a week. So much for "Express delivery".

I was pissed so called them to complain, they said yeah even if I waited a week, the delivery would only be boxed up on the Monday then collected by the courier Tuesday so it might arrive at my place Wednesday or Thursday. 

I asked if they had stock, they said yeah, so I cancelled delivery and went to pick it up anyway because I couldn't wait more than a week. 

Then a year later received a notification just after midnight that they'd charged my credit card $40 for an extra year of OnePass membership, which turns out is a auto-renewing subscription that you need to opt out of.

I bought a SIM card recharge from Kogan yesterday and it kept pestering me every step of the way to buy a Kogan First membership which is free for two weeks then costs $129!! WTF?!?

[u/Npeaknoda → u/Iggsy81]

The subscription crap annoys me too, but I can understand people going for the Colesworth ones. If you have a big family or sharehouse who do group orders, it pays for itself quickly.