I quit Amazon a while back. Because of what I bought from them, counterfeit garbage was less of a problem for me than for some, but their shitty dark patterns and information sharing pushed me over the edge.

If they put a quarter of the effort into seller fraud they put in to making in as difficult as possible to actually comparison shop in their store...

What finally pushed me over the edge was when 3rd party sellers started text messaging me. Fuck that noise, Bezos, I'm out. (No, not a direct Amazon action; no, that seller did not need my phone number; and yes, it is Amazon's problem.)

I did the exact same thing as you around the same time-frame and with the amount of comments I see on here extolling Amazon I assumed I was an outlier. What made you tail off? I was in the UK and I started noticing that while they had originally been cheaper for most things, they were not and the convenience (or inconvenience if I was out when a package was delivered) didn't really offset that particular delta. I made the exception for about a year after I caught on to that in order to buy second hand books because typically they would retail for 1p with a ~£2.50 postage fee but I stopped that after a while for various reasons (travel, ebooks, relocation).

Walmart.com used to be a nice place where you could buy things that you weren't sure if they were counterfeit or not on Amazon, however was saddened to learn they also introduced third party selling and have been getting more fake products on there lately: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeautyGuruChatter/comments/bh1i95/f...

I’m not sure it’s possible to filter out third party.