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0 pointsjimnotgym5y ago0 comments

I miss a site called ebay.com that was full of people selling second-hand goods. It was replaced by a site selling Chinese knockoffs of the thing you want to buy.

Then there was this other site that sold books and CDs called Amazon, they did a similar thing. I really enjoyed browsing suggestions back then.

Finally froogle, superficially similar to google shopping that replaced it, but it actually helped you find things at a good price.

That is the internet I miss, the one where the products provided a better experience than the high street.

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Lammy5y ago

Those sellers never left eBay. It just got harder to find them among the noise. I still frequently have that great "old eBay" experience today when buying from sub-100-feedback sellers.

q084yn39cptyth5y ago

I've found that if you restrict purchases to goods in "preowned" condition for a lot of things you basically get the same Ebay as before.

The tricky part is that there's a lot of people selling preowned goods as "new", usually they're items they purchased or received as a gift they never used. I think they're trying to emphasize the unused nature of the items, but nowadays they just get lost in the noise of direct-from-the-factory items.

WWLink5y ago

Ahh I miss froogle. But I also really liked yahoo shopping. It had a similar global search, if I recall, but you could still buy directly from tons of stores.

Same with using pricewatch to get cheap computer parts.

It feels like a lot of the competition is gone now.

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