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>After ordering two packs of 11-inch, rope-woven storage cubes from Amazon.com recently, I found that the resulting cubes were, in fact, 11-by-10.5-by-10.5 inches. Alas, they weren’t what I expected. I elected to return both sets.

Archive: https://archive.today/c6K2W From the post: >>After ordering two packs of 11-inch, rope-woven storage cubes from Amazon.com recently, I found that the resulting cubes were, in fact, 11-by-10.5-by-10.5 inches. Alas, they weren’t what I expected. I elected to return both sets.

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Yeah, all good points. If I am buying something online I try to find the manufactures website (if they have one) and buy directly from them. Amazon takes a HUGE cut. I was watching a news piece about this company that makes learning toys for kids.

For a $15 item they get about $5 after all of the fees and everything. If Amazon increases fees, they have to increase prices. If they don't increase the price everywhere it is sold (walmart, ebay, etc) then Amazon decreases the product visibility to the point where you don't get any sales anymore. Its all so fucking corrupt.

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They are greedy. Manufacturers can be, but most small businesses like to help the local economy and employ neighbors, so I do shop small when I can. Most of my Christmas shopping is done only at locally owned stores. Not big on franchises, but I will shop at a franchise if it’s locally owned. Unfortunately, in my area I don’t have all the stores I need for hobbies, etc. so I do have to order online. I use eBay and Etsy quite a bit, most of them are small stores and I try to limit choices to US vendors. I can’t always do that, but I make the effort.