Re: If I were a betting man...
I too am getting utterly sick of the hundreds of products that are exactly the same bar the brand slapped on it. Something I was exasperated with recently when I was trying to buy a battery charger. Better than that the same product has varying levels of reviews which you cannot trust these days without running them through fakespot. Don't get me started on the "I received this product for free in exchange for an honest review" accompanied by 5 stars every single time.
The argument that "everything is made in China anyway" I can understand being made, that they "make things to the specification of the buyer" I cannot understand as often there is no buyer. The Chinese sellers on Amazon are just selling rebadged stuff that has in a lot of cases been ripped off from a decent quality product that had gone through testing and made with the lowest quality parts down to the cheapest price. Even clothes suffer, buying supposedly decent expensive pyjamas from a Chinese seller on Amazon (you can only guess from the delivery time that's where its coming from) as a gift for someone recently only to find the stitching starts falling apart in weeks.
Amazon never used to be like this, they could and should definitely do more to clear this up or they're going to find people deserting them in droves for a clear and trusted market place where there's quality control in the supply chain.