What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as a funny sketch that lays bare the crazy things people have gotten used to on Amazon.
What it is
A Ryan George comedy sketch about the absurdities of shopping on Amazon, including nonsense brand names, fake reviews and scammy sellers.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2022 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec elmer007 · 2024-11 · on “The Elimination Strategy – Why More Makes Your SaaS Worth Less”
I'll reference of one of my favorite YouTube videos, possibly of all time, about Amazon products: [this video]
Recommends codeulike · 2022-04 · on “USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)”
"What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like" [this video] I saw this a few months ago and it really lays bare a lot of the crazy stuff we've just got used to with amazon
Recommends codeulike · 2023-03 · on “Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy”
I've posted this before but I'll do it again because it really highlights how unfriendly buying things at amazon has become, slowly over time as meanwhile we barely noticed, like frogs being slowly boiled in water... What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like - Ryan George [this video] "roll the dice"
Cites JadoJodo · 2022-07 · on “Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW”
Pretty interesting. Its odd Amazon allows this to happen, but I guess they have no incentives not to. Reminds me of this video from the Pitch Meeting YouTube guy: [this video]
Cites ben_w · 2025-05 · on “Which name feels more like a project management tool?”
"Bugfree". The problem with "ZenTao" is that it's too close to a game (Zendo), Buddhism, and New Age hippies. The problem with "Sanplex" is it reads like it came from an algorithm for permuting English sylables to produce things that sound almost like they might be brands if it's not your first language, like all the suspicious vendors on Amazon for the last few years: [this video] The other problem with "Sanplex" is every fourth time I read it, my inner monologue vocalises "Spandex" instead.