Just get a used Filson off eBay. I'm not even sure why you would consider anything else
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I hate to say it, but I almost appreciate the honesty that comes from multiple different alphabet soup brands selling the exact same item often with the exact same photos. Additionally, unbranded items aren't always poor quality.
I've actually got some unbranded Christmas light strings I bought because I just wanted to put some lights on some columns at my wedding and wanted to spend less than $100 doing so, and those light strings have outlasted every commercial Christmas light string I've purchased. Heck I have a couple of those strings which have been on for 3+ years straight.
Most unbranded items are made by factories that do OEM and ODM work for actual brands that we've all heard of, so they know how to make quality products and they can get more ongoing orders if they make products that are worth restocking. Sometimes you get burned but far more often than not I end up with something that's relatively decent quality and fullfills the need I have for the item
Fwiw I like ll beans. It’s quite expensive but really durable
This far from a solution but the thing I do is do a quick search for it on a search engine and look for websites makes a list of the best ones you can buy at the moment. Here's an example: I search for "best hiking shoes for national parks" and many outdoor-focused gear websites will recommend shoes from brands like Columbia and Merrell.
Why in the world would you be using Amazon
This kinda seems like your fault. In fact, it fully is
How is this enshitification? You can go into a physical store and find the same from one store to another. I think this is just your bias speaking.
At least with a brick and mortar store you actually know what you're getting*
*to a degree. You still won't know how well it will actually hold up in the real world - but you can at least get an idea of it's construction (Materials/stitching and so on) that you don't/can't get via an online shop (especially with all the bogus reviews nowadays)
Lol dummies this isn't enshitification. Amazon used to not list this stuff, but they realized that they were losing sales because people would go to temu and AliExpress and buy the cheap goods there.
It's not that hard to tell which products are cheap products from China being sold by distributors. Y'all are just bad at shopping.
Yeah this thread is beyond sad. People want to think they're savvy consumers; also think every AA battery with a different outer wrapping is made in a dedicated battery factory.
Amazon is a service. That service is becoming materially worse (I have a harder time finding what I'm looking for because of the flood of substandard products and Amazon's preferential search treatment practices, and even when I do find what I'm looking for, there's a sizable risk that it's a fake). This is very much enshittification; they captured the market share, and now they're squeezing it. Anything that makes them more money but is worse for the consumer, they do. Anything that is better for the consumer but costs them money, they don't do.