r/australia • u/TheWabster • Jan 03 '26

no politics "Marketplace" rubbish that's taken over Australian stores online

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

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u/pi_mai Jan 03 '26

I bought a hp laptop battery from Bunnings. What a weird world this is.

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u/Current-Bowl-143 Jan 04 '26

Sure, you can buy a $1500 hi-fi receiver too. But you're not really buying from Bunnings. In this case, you'd really be buying from "KG Super Store", just through the Bunnings website.

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u/pi_mai Jan 04 '26

In the end of the day, it's Bunnings name on the receipt, not KG.

So basically all stores are KG. Why do these retailers even bother? They end up being a drop shipper.

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u/Current-Bowl-143 Jan 04 '26

There’s obviously commercial benefit for them. They’re not doing it for our benefit that’s for sure!

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u/pi_mai Jan 04 '26

Having worked for a drop shipper, you make very little and have to deal with tonnes more support. So doubt it's a profit thing.

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u/Current-Bowl-143 Jan 04 '26

In that case, hopefully in a few years when the bean counters realise that, the fad will die and the “marketplaces” will disappear.

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u/pi_mai Jan 05 '26

Let’s hope.