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I’ve basically settled on only buying major brands that I already know from Amazon unless it’s something that I’m okay throwing away if it doesn’t work out. I then judge by my assessment of the bad reviews.

IMHO judging these random Chinese products with the nonsense capital letter brands by actual reviews is a lost cause.

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>I’ve basically settled on only buying major brands that I already know from Amazon

I wouldn't even do that, unless you can't find it anywhere else. Amazon commingles their returns form 3rd party sellers and Amazon direct. So you might order an item, find out it was actually a broken returned item, and then have Amazon call you a liar.

Yeah same here. The sad thing is that even with this Amazon is still better than most of the competition.

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