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"Shopping" on Amazon.com is not a good strategy IMO. It's always best to find something you want on another, more specialized site (forum, review aggregator, specialized review site, etc.) and then look for the item you want somewhere online. Amazon, walmart, alibaba et al. are more like UI's for a warehouse for me at this point.

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My issue with Amazon recently is that their search is so doctored now I literally can't find the product+brand combo I am looking for half the time.

Any sufficiently small brand is drowned out by knockoffs and other crap.

I can't recall a specific example right now, so this is a fictitious one:

- Search "Allen Edmonds belt"

- Results: belts by anyone but Allen Edmonds. "Brand" filter doesn't appear on the left for some reason.

- Search "Allen Edmonds"

- Go to Allen Edmonds seller page.

- Click through a page with every one of their products and find the belts.

WTF.

edit: I remember the last time this happened was with phone cases.

“New version available.” Sizes: m, medium, MEDIUM, med. Colors: black, BLK.

Amazon is worthless.

"Price: from $2.07." Options:

- $299.99 - Medium (Brown)

- $299.99 - Small (Black),

- $2.07 - XXXXXXXL (Purple/Green/Orange) (SOLD OUT)

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