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I think the video quality is perfection no need to get to stressed or anything your videos are incredible and they always have been just keep being you that’s all that matters! I’ve started a TH-cam channel (only one video 😂) to and I’ve watched your old videos and it’s inspiring how you’ve made it this far so cool! Your so relatable and inspiring
FYI... The Amazon Basics colors are identical to the Marco Raffine' 72 piece set. I have them both, and did a side by side color chart. Same numbers even. The only difference, besides their names, is that the Marco Raffine' pencils are oil-based, and the Amazon Basics set is wax based. I don't know if anyone else told you, and I wanted you to know. 🙂
I am genuinely confused by your comment. How are they identical if one is wax and the other is oil? They are two completely different mediums? Unless you just mean the shades themselves?
I hope Prismacolor will up their game and bring back quality control! I'm never buying another Prismacolor pencil until they fix the breakage issue....(I would never buy Amazon art supplies though).
I mean, prismacolor should be fine. They’re geared towards artists; a 3rd grader or someone who likes coloring books isn’t gonna be putting 50$ in the drain when there’s already cheaper stuff. And the artists who use prismas are most likely gonna stay with prismas (people who can’t afford it aren’t using them anyway) The amazon brand of pencils will mostly be bought by hobbyists and artists who don’t have enough for prismas, so as far as I can tell they’ll be okay. Really gotta work on their quality control tho
I use oil pastels more often and the pastel pencils I use are from Prisma. I don't have an issue with breakage but I also don't use a lot of pressure when I use them. Maybe that's why I'm not having that issue?
That's exactly that. And if you buy an Amazon print now you are paying pretty much what you'd pay for a decent book and get a flimsy thing on cheap paper, held together with the cheapest glue.
@@hiiluoclanatn Then you either have a large storage unit that I want to see on Storage Wars or huge house to contain all those bound and sliced dead trees with words written on them. And no, I don't consider buying a PDF or an MP3 with someone reading it for you (what are you, 3?) as "buying a book".
Amazon does this a lot and it makes me sad. While I love the convenience of Amazon- they constantly steal ideas from small/medium sized businesses and make them into “Amazon basics” totally undersells it and then that original business ends up going under.
@@charisma-hornum-fries yep. A friend I know works there and I have it verified this is true. Oh they pay them well, but the tactics of this company are downright disgusting
Amazon did their version of the cult classic dill mustard sauce sold by the Larrupin Grill in Humboldt County, CA. That's one of the few fine dining restaurants in the county, and salmon is a big thing in the Pacific Northwest, so the restaurant owners adapted an old family recipe for Swedish dill mustard sauce to serve with their salmon. People wanted to buy the sauce, so they started bottling it, and you could get it on sandwiches, bagels, etc. as a regional specialty. WinCo is a regional employee-owned grocery store and I used to get it for $4 for a 10-oz jar. The restaurant, or their sauce bottler, also sold it online... for $13/jar. I guess enough people searched online for "Larrupin dill mustard sauce" that Amazon decided it was worth stealing the recipe or buying them out. For a while, you couldn't get Larrupin Sauce (it was IN THE NEWS up there!) and the family gave some kind of vague excuse about supply issues or something. Now I wonder if this was connected to the sudden appearance of Amazon Happy Belly Dill Mustard Sauce (for about $9/jar, same size/shape as the OG stuff)?
The thing about Amazon is that they'll beat out all the competition, and then once they're the only place you can go, watch the quality drop and the prices go up.
That's called predatory pricing, but it's difficult to find real examples of it. There's no guarantee of success with such a tactic, after all. You're guaranteed to lose money early on, and there's no reason to expect success after putting some other company out of business, because you can't prevent others from entering the market.
The one thing that prismacolor has that no other pencil company has, and can’t replicate, is their color range. They have the best color range of ANY colored pencil set.
Having people very close to me who worked for amazon for a lengthy period of time, they spoke of this extensively... literally all the amazon products (not always named amazon basics) are 100% sourced from pre-existing supply chains. They may direct them to cut costs (use a cheaper pigment option, cheaper wood, poly blend instead of cotton, etc.) but otherwise it is often made in the exact same factory/a factory owned by the same people, with the exact same materials/same material supply chain, before being packaged differently. So yes, the problem with this is what you pointed out... basically a cannibalization of every possible industry in order to control the supply. It costs money to hire product developers, packaging designers, product testing, etc. and they pass the savings that came from ripping off the design/formulation of a company's final product on to... well a little to you (just enough to get you to buy it, and not a penny more) but the rest to bezos. I'd pass on these--if for no other reason than feeling like part of my soul was dying having to look at 'amazon' on an art supply while I was using it... There is also the very legitimate fear that as he crushes existing companies and narrows down your options, that product innovation dies and they can then degrade the quality of the products they're offering once you're stuck with no other options. Which is scary and... gives me that uncomfortable feeling you mentioned... :')
YOu think any loser that would talk to you is a worthy source. You loser people think you are artists? You are nothing absolutely nothing in the big picture.
Pertaining to Alexis’ comment:: I had no idea this was going on. I guess I haven’t bought anything with the Amazon logo on it. I certainly have, however, bought things with the Great Value Wal Mart logo. Specifically, groceries. I had heard that these products are often produced in the same factories as the name brand product, thereby making it a more economical choice, while getting the same quality. In fact, you often see the products side by side on the shelf. I had no idea that the ultimate goal was to squeeze out the competition. But it makes sense. Perhaps I will think twice now, as my budget allows. Thank you to both of you for the insight.
@@People_R_Foolish LOL I had no idea someone was trying to troll, I'm sad youtube didn't let me know. Nobody was claiming to even be an artist dude, you're projecting a little too hard. It's okay if you're nothing in "the big picture", even if your art sucks, it's about what makes you happy (though I question if trying to leave mean comments is really making you happy.) In the unlikely event that someone is sincerely concerned about my "sources" (even though this is readily information available online and literal factory workers probably know this best of all), direct family member who was a level 7 and had meetings with our bald overlord himself regularly, and another direct family member who did factory compliance checks overseas. This is really hard because factory owners will go to great lengths to hide horrible conditions and make everything look above board, even if the goods are actually being produced at another location entirely. But regardless, internally Amazon is *proud* of this sort of thing. People working there either drink the koolaid or pretend to, but either way they think of cannibalizing other companies as an accomplishment.
@@ashleighryan1390 but they are not open stock so not cost effective. Imagine you do mainly landscapes; every time you run out of greens and browns you are left with bright reds, oranges and purples; so you have to buy another complete set.
Omg thank you so much. His just made my day that you saw my comment. You are my absolute favorite youtuber and you are my biggest role model. You are amazing and keep doing what your doing.
I have completed my four week lightfast test! And I am here to say that amazon basics coloured pencils are not lightfast. Though they fade a lot less than I expected. It's like a 25-30% fading in the four weeks in my windowsill, so, now we know for certain.
Okay the initial story is actually pretty shocking to me... We have laws in Germany that forbid these practices, one if the reasons Walmart never stuck around here. It's horrifying, really
Yes, absolutely disgusting. We should be scared of amazon, because they will take over the whole online market if they're not stopped. There are many reasons to criticise Germany but sometimes I'm glad to live here.
I really don't care, I don't support Amazon's monopolizing the planet and power seeking strategy. Even if they were better than prisma I would buy prisma again tbh. I get that amazon basics are helpful for people who can't afford art supplies tho.
There's certainly a need to value your supplies through the whole chain. Finding companies who specialize in the supplies makes it more likely that there will be a broader range of products (color ranges, textural differences, etc.) and allows the companies to support employees who are specialized in curating those supplies not to mention ethically supplying them. Cheaper is just cheaper and that's basically it. It's not surprising that Amazon could replicate some of the quality of the actual product but there are shortcuts behind the scenes to make that happen.
One thing with companies like Amazon, they make cheaper knock-offs with okay quality because they already have the capital to produce, theyre just doing it to battle companies or brands that specializes on that specific product. Cuz theyre cheaper, consumers would go buy them and through time, sales and demand for other brands will go downhill and here comes Amazon to “rescue” them by buyin* their brand. Amazon has the upper hand since they’re Amazon.
@@multimanjazzman8203 With art supplies though I doubt everyone will just abandon ship with the brands they like and go to Amazon's. Different people like different qualities in different brands and Caran D'ache, Prismacolor and Derwent pencils will likely always be better than whatever Amazon puts out.
Love comparative videos like this, they are very helpful. So far, the price difference is so minuscule though that I'd rather pay the little bit extra for the better quality product and support those manufacturers instead of helping Bezos with his world domination plan that will ultimately wipe out the competition and deprive us all of the option of the better quality products.
Don’t think the owner of Amazon is nice to his workers because my mom used to work at Amazon and used to be payed almost nothing and now she is a small business gaining more money then she did from Amazon
Same here my mom and brother worked for them overworked and underpaid. Plus the facility was like 5 million square ft and if you work on the other side away from the break room it was to bad. My moms 30s were 10 min and her 15s were 5.
I remember my dad worked in Olive Garden as a chef and he barely got payed so he made a flooring company and he was the only one working to make the floors and he got enough money to buy an ACTUAL house and not a apartment
I would always rather support a 'good' art supply company than get something basic. And really, in these times, the power needs to be distributed. Even in the art supply companies.
@@ismaelsyed6449 No. It's called: having extremely bad morals and not caring about anyone but yourself. There are much healthier and friendlier forms of competition
I buy Prisma's and others but I certainly won't be supporting Amazon in their sales of their knock off supplies. Once the others are out of business and Amazon has monopoly, up go the prices.
@@crashq8784 I hardly agree. It's a game. A board a monopoly board that the company plays in. They will get rid off the competition and they will be the biggest online shop. They will rise the stocks and get more money.
My first guess is that they're actually Mitsubishi pencils. They are sold like crazy in Japan and are also really cheap and have still great quality. It also gives a really strange feeling seeing a car brand on a pencil :D
I'm with you on that. And I'm really glad she shared that story, because I didn't know of that! Dear Jeff Baalzebub-zos, nah, not playing your game. I'll pay more to keep decent businesses in business. You need an anti-trust sledgehammer taken to your World Domination Enterprise. Sadly, you'll still be one of the wealthiest asshats on the earth. >_
They might be okay quality for now, but just to get enough people to buy them that other companies go out of business. Once there is no more competition, watch the quality plummet so they can save a nickel.
@@People_R_Foolish Not everyone wants to have cheap, low quality stuff. Better to support business that deliver quality while we still have the choice to do so.
I was here a couple year ago when she still had a couple thousand followers until she popped up onto my recommended today. I’m so proud of you Rae you’ve gotten so far!💞💕✨
Patrick Carpenter ikr?? i’d rather wait a couple paychecks and pay 20¢ more per pencil for an ethical, good brand like prisma than support a business that literally was willing to lose $100m just to undersell and bankrupt another company. EDIT: and this is coming from someone making minimum wage and barely making rent some months.
Wow that intro story really made me hate Jeff bezos even more. Hundreds of thousands of lower-middle class workers lost their jobs just so he could become a little bit richer? Disgusting. ughhh gotta love capitalism
I just can't support amazon, even if these are cheaper with the same quality... I'd shell out the the money for Prismacolour if that means not supporting Jeff Bezos
@@Miraya0423 Amazon's employees are treated terribly, and I think billionaires as a concept are immoral. You should research about amazon's terribleness online.
@@Miraya0423 have in consideration once they wip out other competitors prices will go up and quality go down, it has happen already in the textil world :(
I will never buy anything from Amazon. If I can't get it in a local store I don't need it. I know me taking my business local is just a drop in the bucket, however if more people do it some of our local business will stay and prevent a complete monopoly on everything allowing Amazon to JACKUP prices once there are no other options.
I've found many things where Amazon costs more . They rely on people thinking they're always less. But if you DO find a price on Prime that's less, most local stores will price-match. I don't have small places price-match, but will with Target and such.
Thanks 4 covering the Bezos topic. My Grandfather who was born in 1900 predicted and refused to shop at any potential chain stores because he was a wise man. We all need to attempt 2 support the family owned stores and not b too harsh on those that can’t afford 2 do it full x. As long as we r doing the best we can don’t b too hard on each other.
I swear... Amazon better NOT mess with any other company. It's only getting out a hand, we have different companies and sites and stores to buy from for a reason. Imagine only on store everywhere you look. That just sounds like hell.
I’m trying not to give Lex Luther anymore of my money than possible. I can’t stand his desire to take over the world. I will pay more for my color pencils and stick with Prisma.
I will buy Polychromos from Dick Blick and Jet Pens and probably pay even more. I mean, I don't know where you buy your Prismas, and Dick Blick usually has great prices, but Polys usually cost more than Prismas. Whatever, it's less money for Jeff Bezos, so it's all good.
Nope! Worse, it's called Corporatism, which is spawned from unbalanced & unchecked capitalism! It's when a few companies are allowed to wipe out & destroy all other businesses, & run a monopoly without consequences! Bezos is being allowed to gain & control a monopoly! We'd be smart not to buy anything from him/amazon ever again, and take our business elsewhere to support other companies... while we still have the ability to!
Have you heard about brand called: Kooh-i-nor or Hardmuth it's company from Czech Republic... I think you already worked with their stuff... Could you review it please?
And this is where I am so torn... I don’t want Amazon to take over the world. I love that it’s possible to get great supplies at a good price, it I want other companies to thrive as well
The intro story made me so mad at Amazon, disgusting to take down a hard-working,original product down just to kill competition.. I seriously don't want to buy from them anymore
Faber Castell is AWESOME, but who has money for that? I don't unfortunately. It keeps being my princess dream to have the whole collections, tho. Along with Cintiq Pro
ever realize that amazon could have just stolen the exact same formulas of popular brands but decreased it slightly for production costs and/or not to be called a copycat
i know prismsacolor is also owned by a billion dollar company but i’d rather buy from them any day than give money to a man who is worth almost half of prismacolor’s parent company’s entire worth. no one needs that much money in my opinion
I hope I'm not the only one not interested in Amazon basics art supplies? Honestly i don't know how they are... They may be good or bad.... It's just a personal preference...
I’ve actually started finding items cheaper elsewhere online then on Amazon, I dunno why but certain products seem to be higher in price now then they used to. I’m guessing Amazon can make them higher then elsewhere because they offer next day free shipping
Just going off my own experiences there are cheap equally good alternatives that already exist. For instance: staedtler is a slightly cheaper alternative to faber castell and the two are so close to being identical (although I feel staedtler transfers much easier to paper whereas faber castell needs more layering and work). And I've heard of other brands in other mediums too
I appreciate your work on comparing these art supplies and I respect your opinion... HOWEVER, something in my gut just won't let me give Bezos any more money than I already do. I already buy most of my stuff from Amazon and Dick Blick's Art Supply, but I buy brands that are sooo not Amazon brands. It is unfortunate that Amazon has become so big because as you have said, it has pushed smaller companies out of business as with the diaper people! The free shipping that Amazon offers really makes a huge difference in most cases. Of course, don't forget that shipping costs are added in to the basic cost of the products in the case of heavy things like gallon jugs of alcohol or big glue bottles, etc. Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth!
Indeed...and unreachable if u wanna unsubscribe from anything thru them!! Would neva buy their product ova original brand ie Prismacolour pencils.... on principle alone!!
I've had those pencils for nearly half a year thanks to this video, and I don't have any complaints. They are great pencils. I'm doing my own lightfast test and so far they're doing very nicely. I did upgrade to a caran d'ache luminance white pencil because the white pencil just didn't do it for me, but it's good if I need a blender. Otherwise I'm very happy since I've gotten it, they don't break when I sharpen them, they go over everything I use them on (watercolours, markers, poscas, even crayons if I use hairspray on top of it), and they are soft enough to blend but not so soft that I can't do details. These are great pencils for beginner artists to learn off of. I am considering upgrading to the polychromos at some point, but I still love these pencils
Girl “Freak on a Leash”? Really? 💀 As someone who uses and even taught with Prismacolor colored pencils at one point, I am definitely impressed by how pigmented they are. However, I have a lot of problems with Amazon and art supply stores are already an endangered species so no. I’ll shell out the extra money for Prismacolors
@@fayra2016 he just means that pigments are being mined at excessive rates. A lot of pigments and paints are no longer available because of strip mining
@@auraw2262 that's not what he meant lol. He's talking about how Amazon is causing a lot of small businesses to shut down. Bc of that, they're becoming rare
I mean to be fair tax law states if you put all your profit s back into your business which is what amazon does you can off set tax... Its a way to continually build a business.. That being said i wish they treated workers better and were more ethically sound.
@@jamiehiggins6261 trickle down economics only work when the ceo does not make billions a year... I worked for amazon for 6 months and can confirm they pay 85% of employees a less than a living wage 😳
@@STICKYArt what's more I didn't say that they treated employees fairly in fact I think they treat employees horribly I simply pointed out that in the United States if you put all of your profit back into the business you do not have to pay taxes and that is how Amazon gets around paying taxes at least in America
I definitely prefer the colors from prisma better than the Amazon colors that you put to the page. So the Amazon ones may feel nice and blend well but the prisma colors definitely are more vibrant more intense and more lush looking
I mean that’s not gonna happen 🙅♀️ there’s two big differences between diapers.com and prisma color ones an off brand knock off site one is really expensive rich actual brand it kinda hard to shut down a well known actual brand
@@lesbianbi3003 no amazon is like terrible when you dig deep, as they are the worst to their employees, it may be good for the consumers as we can get whatever we want at a few clicks of a button and in just a few days for cheap but they have destroyed many businesses, and they treat their employees like garbage, amazon has enough money to end world hunger billions of times but yet they dont even donate any, the owner just keeps it all for himself and only wants more and more as he is only filled of greed.
Selling products at a loss has been a fairly common retail strategy for many years. I do, however, wonder how they were able to sell them in the state of Tennessee (and possibly some other states as well) as the state of Tennessee has a law prohibiting any retailer from selling a product at a lower price than cost. This practice is known as "loss leaders" and generally are used by retailers to get new customers into their store. Great video, as always!
Yer I get that I use Amazon alot and I wouldn't even recommend buying from them cause of the whole tax evasion thingy but if your into health foods it has its benefit but yer it's a bit weird when people promote their stuff to get money for themselves, but everyone's gotta eat.
See it's you choice but I personally like Amazon and order frequently from Amazon. I like how they deliver things right to our doors ☺️. And plus it gives jobs to many people worldwide
@@amandadublin3129 prismacolor is bigger than Amazon brand, plus everyone wants to earn a bit of side coin. Maybe it’s not ethical but people have to do what they have to do to eat
@@plant9933 Ah, I don't have a problem with folks hussling... It's just the full on hypocrisy of complaining about amazon's behaviour then scraping a little off the top for herself that grinds my gears. If you want to take a moral stand, take an actual moral stand.
I love your channel so much as a beginner artist i am so happy i found your channel and i will definitely buy these as they are cheaper then the real one so thank you so much for doing this :)
@@mchobbit2951 They do break easily, which is why if you are going to use them, its best to use certain sharpeners and methods to make sure they don't shatter. My sister sharpens them with the Derwent hand-crank sharpener and she's never broken one. If she drops one, before sharpening or using it, she lightly melts the wax back together with a blow drier. It depends.
@@mchobbit2951 like I said, experiences with Prismas vary from person to person. It depends. I like them, they work just fine for me and the other artists in my family, but ik other ppl have had problems with them (especially when they're delivered by Amazon as I've noticed). So if you found a brand that works better for you personally, that's great. I still wouldn't complete discourage others from using them tho. And I personally can't afford polychromos anyways, so...that's just my opinion.
I’m so conflicted because while I am super broke and would love to get my art supplies for cheaper, Amazon is so scummy some/most of the time that I don’t want to give them my money 😭 Amazon basics makes my heart happy but hurts my soul
Sign up for coupons from Micheal's and Joann's. They often have coupons that will take the price of Prisma down 40%-60%. You'll spend LESS getting actual Prismas that way.
Love the Bezos/Lex Luther bit. Had to watch this for entertainment. I’m primarily a digital artist, but I’m trying to get back into hand drawing. A lot of my art has to do with dismantling power structures… so I definitely couldn’t live with seeing Amazon on my art supplies. Since I’m not ready to sell my soul, I dropped $125 on a Prismacolor set. I know it will pay off in the end!
@Isma Eman Dude, even if they were being a bit mean, you should never comment on someone's English. Are you like five or something? You should know this.
One reason I still wouldn’t buy the Amazon one Friend: “that’s a cool drawing what did you use!” Me: “Amazon colour pencils” Friend: “ohhh... yeah those ones?”
@@sleekoduck I mean, I'm a hobbyist because I can't have art as a job (I don't have a bank account, and aside from that, I can't actually handle the pressure from commissions) and I wouldn't go anywhere near Amazon's art stuff... Sure, Faber Castell is more expensive, but they're a lot better. And if I bought from Amazon, I'd be paying 100€ shipping on most things.
Rae, please don't support Amazon or knock offs! It's better to put that money to smaller companies, and people really listen to you. Amazon don't need the business but other art companies do :(
Not to say it's okay what amazon does but prismacolor are not a small company. Personally, I'm a "starving artist " that saves a year to get a set of prismacolor pencils that break very easily. If I'm coloring for anxiety, these would be fine imo. I don't blame her for having an affiliation link, we all have to support ourselves and families.
It's called business. A lot of companies do this, not just amazon. It sucks, but for people who can't afford to pay an extra $20 it's not bad to have. She's just doing her job in showing the difference. If people can, or are willing to spend the extra $20 they can. This goes for any amazon basic, or knock off items. If it comes between buying food or buying "name brand" I think I would choose buying food and just buy the cheaper item if the difference in the item isn't that big of a deal. I see so many name brand items that get so expensive because of their name, not their products.
@@fidelianerina - That's not "business" anymore than breaking the leg of your skating competitor before the race is "sports". This isn't capitalism either, it's corporatism. Learn the difference. Business is meant to allow for competition. Monopolies are not competition, they're just "Corporate Raiders". They don't look to actually compete via innovation and quality, their job is to buy up the competition until their shitty company is the only one left standing. Usually that means losing alot of money first, in order to gain future consumers in the long-term. Gaming the market used to be illegal. There were anti-trust & anti-merger laws that prevented it. These laws were meant to protect small businesses & entrepreneurs from big conglomerates that had the capital to overtake them. But by the power of bribery and the Supreme Court ruling of "Citizens United", corporations had power over our legislation and could now dictate the rules & bend the laws to suit them. Jeff Besos & Bill Gates have tried to buy elections plenty of times. This is a threat to our democracy, and you're sitting there justifying this. They weakened anti-trust laws, then they slowly eradicated corporate & banking regulations. These mergers made these companies so big that in 2008, it led to a market collapse and one of the biggest recessions we've ever had since the Great Depression. It's sad that the current state of corporatism is being viewed by the public as "business as usual". It was never like this. Billionaires & huge monopolies are a very new thing to our society, bc we used to put ethics over dollars. Not anymore.
@@sallykitchen9378 , If Prismacolor would go back to the quality they had when I bought my first complete set (made in USA) I would still support them. Every replacement pencil from them has been sheer hell to work with since they started manufacturing in Mexico, I refuse to buy their pencils anymore due to the breakage, warped pencils and loose leads.
Hey Rae, something to consider about your review when you layered it might have been a good idea to tell people that if they layer they could use both. AB for the under layers and finish with a top layer of the PC therefore extending the life of the Prismacolors. Just a thought from an old artist in SD..
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I love the new editing style Rae! Keep up the good work! Sending love all around the world from Poland! ❤
I think the video quality is perfection no need to get to stressed or anything your videos are incredible and they always have been just keep being you that’s all that matters! I’ve started a TH-cam channel (only one video 😂) to and I’ve watched your old videos and it’s inspiring how you’ve made it this far so cool! Your so relatable and inspiring
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FYI...
The Amazon Basics colors are identical to the Marco Raffine' 72 piece set. I have them both, and did a side by side color chart. Same numbers even. The only difference, besides their names, is that the Marco Raffine' pencils are oil-based, and the Amazon Basics set is wax based.
I don't know if anyone else told you, and I wanted you to know.
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Thanks for the info!
@@kitbracadabra you are welcome.
Price?
@@maddies2173 I bought the Marco Raffine' pencils almost 4 years ago. About $40. The Amazon Basics were comparable. Not super expensive.
I am genuinely confused by your comment. How are they identical if one is wax and the other is oil? They are two completely different mediums?
Unless you just mean the shades themselves?
I just really hope prismas dont get shut down the same way
I hope Prismacolor will up their game and bring back quality control! I'm never buying another Prismacolor pencil until they fix the breakage issue....(I would never buy Amazon art supplies though).
I mean, prismacolor should be fine. They’re geared towards artists; a 3rd grader or someone who likes coloring books isn’t gonna be putting 50$ in the drain when there’s already cheaper stuff. And the artists who use prismas are most likely gonna stay with prismas (people who can’t afford it aren’t using them anyway)
The amazon brand of pencils will mostly be bought by hobbyists and artists who don’t have enough for prismas, so as far as I can tell they’ll be okay. Really gotta work on their quality control tho
I use oil pastels more often and the pastel pencils I use are from Prisma. I don't have an issue with breakage but I also don't use a lot of pressure when I use them. Maybe that's why I'm not having that issue?
Not just diapers, bezos first did it with books, he put so many book stores out of business the exact same way.
I buy books all the time 🤡
That's exactly that. And if you buy an Amazon print now you are paying pretty much what you'd pay for a decent book and get a flimsy thing on cheap paper, held together with the cheapest glue.
@Disgusting Chicken Rapist People are buying more books now than ever, except they are in digital rebooks form or as audiobooks.
@@hiiluoclanatn Then you either have a large storage unit that I want to see on Storage Wars or huge house to contain all those bound and sliced dead trees with words written on them.
And no, I don't consider buying a PDF or an MP3 with someone reading it for you (what are you, 3?) as "buying a book".
Bezos did not put bookstores out of business, WE DID, by buying from amazon.
*TH-cam is getting real comfortable with these double no skip ads*
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Ikr? Smh
If u move the thing all the way to the end of the video and go back it should take out all of the ads that's what I do and i dont have ads.
Stolen. Copy and pasted things are just ignorant
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Amazon does this a lot and it makes me sad. While I love the convenience of Amazon- they constantly steal ideas from small/medium sized businesses and make them into “Amazon basics” totally undersells it and then that original business ends up going under.
And the workers are peeing in bottles because they don't get any breaks.
That's sad :/
yup. they literally take a loss in order to steal the smaller seller's business. it's super gross.
@@charisma-hornum-fries yep. A friend I know works there and I have it verified this is true. Oh they pay them well, but the tactics of this company are downright disgusting
Amazon did their version of the cult classic dill mustard sauce sold by the Larrupin Grill in Humboldt County, CA. That's one of the few fine dining restaurants in the county, and salmon is a big thing in the Pacific Northwest, so the restaurant owners adapted an old family recipe for Swedish dill mustard sauce to serve with their salmon. People wanted to buy the sauce, so they started bottling it, and you could get it on sandwiches, bagels, etc. as a regional specialty. WinCo is a regional employee-owned grocery store and I used to get it for $4 for a 10-oz jar. The restaurant, or their sauce bottler, also sold it online... for $13/jar.
I guess enough people searched online for "Larrupin dill mustard sauce" that Amazon decided it was worth stealing the recipe or buying them out. For a while, you couldn't get Larrupin Sauce (it was IN THE NEWS up there!) and the family gave some kind of vague excuse about supply issues or something. Now I wonder if this was connected to the sudden appearance of Amazon Happy Belly Dill Mustard Sauce (for about $9/jar, same size/shape as the OG stuff)?
*Rae:* Amazon did the most petty thing in existence.
*Blackest black paint:* I'm still here, you know.
Why’s that petty? The paint?
At least Stuart Semple didn't make thousands of people redundant
@@pumpkinsproutarts, true.
That’s what I thought!!!!
Lol!
The thing about Amazon is that they'll beat out all the competition, and then once they're the only place you can go, watch the quality drop and the prices go up.
I’m unsure of that. Haven’t they had enough time to do that already?
They legally can’t do that because the government won’t allow monopolies (thank god).
That's called predatory pricing, but it's difficult to find real examples of it. There's no guarantee of success with such a tactic, after all. You're guaranteed to lose money early on, and there's no reason to expect success after putting some other company out of business, because you can't prevent others from entering the market.
@@rayofsunshine6300 The government's ability to enforce that has been pretty weak ever since Reagan.
that is exactly what walmart did, so, yup.
The one thing that prismacolor has that no other pencil company has, and can’t replicate, is their color range. They have the best color range of ANY colored pencil set.
I do have to say Holbein also has a 150 colour tange and is amazing.
Having people very close to me who worked for amazon for a lengthy period of time, they spoke of this extensively... literally all the amazon products (not always named amazon basics) are 100% sourced from pre-existing supply chains. They may direct them to cut costs (use a cheaper pigment option, cheaper wood, poly blend instead of cotton, etc.) but otherwise it is often made in the exact same factory/a factory owned by the same people, with the exact same materials/same material supply chain, before being packaged differently. So yes, the problem with this is what you pointed out... basically a cannibalization of every possible industry in order to control the supply. It costs money to hire product developers, packaging designers, product testing, etc. and they pass the savings that came from ripping off the design/formulation of a company's final product on to... well a little to you (just enough to get you to buy it, and not a penny more) but the rest to bezos.
I'd pass on these--if for no other reason than feeling like part of my soul was dying having to look at 'amazon' on an art supply while I was using it... There is also the very legitimate fear that as he crushes existing companies and narrows down your options, that product innovation dies and they can then degrade the quality of the products they're offering once you're stuck with no other options. Which is scary and... gives me that uncomfortable feeling you mentioned... :')
YOu think any loser that would talk to you is a worthy source. You loser people think you are artists? You are nothing absolutely nothing in the big picture.
@@People_R_Foolish lol who hurt you? Are you OK bro?
@@People_R_Foolish lemme guess, mommy didn't put your drawing up on the fridge. It's okay, not all of us can be artists. :) /patpat
Pertaining to Alexis’ comment:: I had no idea this was going on. I guess I haven’t bought anything with the Amazon logo on it. I certainly have, however, bought things with the Great Value Wal Mart logo. Specifically, groceries. I had heard that these products are often produced in the same factories as the name brand product, thereby making it a more economical choice, while getting the same quality. In fact, you often see the products side by side on the shelf. I had no idea that the ultimate goal was to squeeze out the competition. But it makes sense. Perhaps I will think twice now, as my budget allows. Thank you to both of you for the insight.
@@People_R_Foolish LOL I had no idea someone was trying to troll, I'm sad youtube didn't let me know. Nobody was claiming to even be an artist dude, you're projecting a little too hard. It's okay if you're nothing in "the big picture", even if your art sucks, it's about what makes you happy (though I question if trying to leave mean comments is really making you happy.)
In the unlikely event that someone is sincerely concerned about my "sources" (even though this is readily information available online and literal factory workers probably know this best of all), direct family member who was a level 7 and had meetings with our bald overlord himself regularly, and another direct family member who did factory compliance checks overseas. This is really hard because factory owners will go to great lengths to hide horrible conditions and make everything look above board, even if the goods are actually being produced at another location entirely. But regardless, internally Amazon is *proud* of this sort of thing. People working there either drink the koolaid or pretend to, but either way they think of cannibalizing other companies as an accomplishment.
Rae is actually the world's official bad and bootleg art supplies researcher
@AVA PENNELL lol
They can be as good as you say... It will last till they get prismacolor out of market. Then it will turn into shit and you wont have a choice.
It's not just Prisma they're taking business from, but other companies like Arteza.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the goal is to take over all markets from everybody and destroy all of the competition. >.>
Yup. Arteza pencils are light fast though.
@@ashleighryan1390 but they are not open stock so not cost effective. Imagine you do mainly landscapes; every time you run out of greens and browns you are left with bright reds, oranges and purples; so you have to buy another complete set.
@Caitlyn Fernandez I personally like Prismacolor
@Caitlyn Fernandez I really enjoy the arteza
"When I think of thick, first I think of myself"
-Rae Oct. 10 2020
Omg thank you so much. His just made my day that you saw my comment. You are my absolute favorite youtuber and you are my biggest role model. You are amazing and keep doing what your doing.
😂😅🤣
Ah yes the comment that made
Rae cry of happiness
we stan
I'd like but it's at 666 and I can't ruin it
I have completed my four week lightfast test! And I am here to say that amazon basics coloured pencils are not lightfast. Though they fade a lot less than I expected. It's like a 25-30% fading in the four weeks in my windowsill, so, now we know for certain.
Thank you for your research!!
Yes, thank you for doing that! I’ll stick with Prisma Colors.
i hate bezos so much but whoever they underpaid- i mean hired, went off with these
😩😂
I’ll stay with my art supplies, I’m not paying for these
Ugh same, I would buy stuff from Amazon if the employees weren’t treated so badly and actually got paid for the amount of work they do-😳
why does everyone hate him in the comment section? These marketing activities happened all the time, I'm definitely buying these
@@amber2511 not paying employees shouldn’t be “normal”
Amazon pencils? Seems a little sketchy.
🤣
Ha good one....not really but make me laugh😂
Jeff Bezos takes over the world. Don't let him stay loyal to Prismacolor.
LMAO
Edie nah, this is a cheaper alternative that works good so I’m using it
Okay the initial story is actually pretty shocking to me... We have laws in Germany that forbid these practices, one if the reasons Walmart never stuck around here. It's horrifying, really
Thank you for a reference point from the real world.
Yes, absolutely disgusting. We should be scared of amazon, because they will take over the whole online market if they're not stopped.
There are many reasons to criticise Germany but sometimes I'm glad to live here.
I want to be as good of an artist as superraedizzle is one day
U will get there
Same
Honestly
Me too...
But I will never get there.
@@Autumn_Frost me too. ..
Same, the struggle is real🤧
I really don't care, I don't support Amazon's monopolizing the planet and power seeking strategy. Even if they were better than prisma I would buy prisma again tbh. I get that amazon basics are helpful for people who can't afford art supplies tho.
Me too! I've made it a point never to buy from Amazon. I'm fine sticking with Derwent!
Yess
There's certainly a need to value your supplies through the whole chain. Finding companies who specialize in the supplies makes it more likely that there will be a broader range of products (color ranges, textural differences, etc.) and allows the companies to support employees who are specialized in curating those supplies not to mention ethically supplying them. Cheaper is just cheaper and that's basically it. It's not surprising that Amazon could replicate some of the quality of the actual product but there are shortcuts behind the scenes to make that happen.
One thing with companies like Amazon, they make cheaper knock-offs with okay quality because they already have the capital to produce, theyre just doing it to battle companies or brands that specializes on that specific product. Cuz theyre cheaper, consumers would go buy them and through time, sales and demand for other brands will go downhill and here comes Amazon to “rescue” them by buyin* their brand. Amazon has the upper hand since they’re Amazon.
@@multimanjazzman8203 With art supplies though I doubt everyone will just abandon ship with the brands they like and go to Amazon's. Different people like different qualities in different brands and Caran D'ache, Prismacolor and Derwent pencils will likely always be better than whatever Amazon puts out.
Love comparative videos like this, they are very helpful. So far, the price difference is so minuscule though that I'd rather pay the little bit extra for the better quality product and support those manufacturers instead of helping Bezos with his world domination plan that will ultimately wipe out the competition and deprive us all of the option of the better quality products.
I was excited at first but after hearing the story about the diaper website I feel angry and hate amazon even more
Yeah that story freaked me out
Don’t think the owner of Amazon is nice to his workers because my mom used to work at Amazon and used to be payed almost nothing and now she is a small business gaining more money then she did from Amazon
Same here my mom and brother worked for them overworked and underpaid. Plus the facility was like 5 million square ft and if you work on the other side away from the break room it was to bad. My moms 30s were 10 min and her 15s were 5.
don't tell Bezos or he will ruin it
For my case no, my brother works in amazon and he is satisfied with his job
I remember my dad worked in Olive Garden as a chef and he barely got payed so he made a flooring company and he was the only one working to make the floors and he got enough money to buy an ACTUAL house and not a apartment
8:56
"Now when I first think of thicc, I think of myself."
*I just stan her. Periodt.*
I was hoping for a comment like this HAHAHA
@@erikas.4431 Sameeee😂
I would always rather support a 'good' art supply company than get something basic. And really, in these times, the power needs to be distributed. Even in the art supply companies.
Amazon really is the route of all evil... How horrible if them to take down a business like that 🙄 pettiness is pathetic
Yeah, like Jeff Bezos bud, you already have enough money, prolly don’t even have enough to spend it all on :/
it's called competing with the competition
@@ismaelsyed6449 No. It's called: having extremely bad morals and not caring about anyone but yourself. There are much healthier and friendlier forms of competition
Greed,
This is just the beginning of this horrible world.
It wasn't a petty move. It was evil and technically illegal.
I buy Prisma's and others but I certainly won't be supporting Amazon in their sales of their knock off supplies. Once the others are out of business and Amazon has monopoly, up go the prices.
We all need to stop buying from amazon! He's made enough! Time to screw them over and give other people our business!
i know ur comment is old but lets notn buy
@@crashq8784 I hardly agree. It's a game. A board a monopoly board that the company plays in. They will get rid off the competition and they will be the biggest online shop. They will rise the stocks and get more money.
@indie. You are right. Companies knock competition out of the business game.
My first guess is that they're actually Mitsubishi pencils.
They are sold like crazy in Japan and are also really cheap and have still great quality.
It also gives a really strange feeling seeing a car brand on a pencil :D
After that introduction story, I don't care if these art supplies are high quality. There utter garbage if there only made to buy out competition.
I'm with you on that. And I'm really glad she shared that story, because I didn't know of that!
Dear Jeff Baalzebub-zos, nah, not playing your game. I'll pay more to keep decent businesses in business. You need an anti-trust sledgehammer taken to your World Domination Enterprise. Sadly, you'll still be one of the wealthiest asshats on the earth. >_
They might be okay quality for now, but just to get enough people to buy them that other companies go out of business. Once there is no more competition, watch the quality plummet so they can save a nickel.
Right! And the fact that hundreds of thousand lower-middle class workers lost their jobs just because he wanted to be richer? disgusting
Also amazon is notorious for abusing their workers and not paying enough
Welcome to capitalism baby
I’m pleasantly surprised by how you so honestly reviewed these items that I’ve just subscribed. I do thank you for your incredible style!
I freaking hate amazon! They have ruined small businesses.
yes they do. Even if you sell via Amazon, they take over your product if it is succesfull and offer it for a little less. It is disgusting.
I hope he puts every small business out of business. Close all those losers'. They are overpriced.
@@People_R_Foolish Not everyone wants to have cheap, low quality stuff. Better to support business that deliver quality while we still have the choice to do so.
I freaking love Amazon
bishhhhh amazon is the *best* place to shop *everything*
....and that's why I don't support Amazon. They're shady as hell and not to mention becoming even more and more intrusive in people's lives...
How, exactly, is Amazon "intrusive in people's lives"?
You said, using a platform owned by Google.
I was here a couple year ago when she still had a couple thousand followers until she popped up onto my recommended today. I’m so proud of you Rae you’ve gotten so far!💞💕✨
Billionaire monopoly undercutting competition? Gross!
Adam thank you for not being a sheep
Same like cool. U bought something from a bad company. Neat.
Patrick Carpenter ikr?? i’d rather wait a couple paychecks and pay 20¢ more per pencil for an ethical, good brand like prisma than support a business that literally was willing to lose $100m just to undersell and bankrupt another company.
EDIT: and this is coming from someone making minimum wage and barely making rent some months.
They really did the classic robber baron strategy that those douchebags during the industrial revolution
Rockefeller and all those other names
you don't know what monopoly means
Wow that intro story really made me hate Jeff bezos even more. Hundreds of thousands of lower-middle class workers lost their jobs just so he could become a little bit richer? Disgusting. ughhh gotta love capitalism
When Prismacolors have a match:
Rae: THerE's aN eRrOR iN tHe SiMuLAtiOn.
I just can't support amazon, even if these are cheaper with the same quality... I'd shell out the the money for Prismacolour if that means not supporting Jeff Bezos
Why
@@Miraya0423 Amazon's employees are treated terribly, and I think billionaires as a concept are immoral. You should research about amazon's terribleness online.
@@Miraya0423 have in consideration once they wip out other competitors prices will go up and quality go down, it has happen already in the textil world :(
“Hey Siri Play freak on a leash by Korn.” God I felt that lol
Yes
LOL
Wow I can’t believe Amazon was petty enough to ruin a whole company
Greed
You think it’s only one company?
Many companies. Diapers.com is just the most notable example.
Kotashea Industries, dahling ... whole *industries*
(And still I Prime ... 😔 o the shame smh)
Bill Gates was notorious for doing that too except it was for software.
I will never buy anything from Amazon. If I can't get it in a local store I don't need it. I know me taking my business local is just a drop in the bucket, however if more people do it some of our local business will stay and prevent a complete monopoly on everything allowing Amazon to JACKUP prices once there are no other options.
I've found many things where Amazon costs more . They rely on people thinking they're always less. But if you DO find a price on Prime that's less, most local stores will price-match. I don't have small places price-match, but will with Target and such.
Thanks 4 covering the Bezos topic. My Grandfather who was born in 1900 predicted and refused to shop at any potential chain stores because he was a wise man. We all need to attempt 2 support the family owned stores and not b too harsh on those that can’t afford 2 do it full x. As long as we r doing the best we can don’t b too hard on each other.
I swear... Amazon better NOT mess with any other company. It's only getting out a hand, we have different companies and sites and stores to buy from for a reason. Imagine only on store everywhere you look. That just sounds like hell.
As long as they're not regulated they will plow through any company they wants to.
They’ll probably get called out and the company could possibly run out of business but that’s just if they
Keep doing this
Sounds like the USSR.
I’m trying not to give Lex Luther anymore of my money than possible. I can’t stand his desire to take over the world. I will pay more for my color pencils and stick with Prisma.
I will buy Polychromos from Dick Blick and Jet Pens and probably pay even more. I mean, I don't know where you buy your Prismas, and Dick Blick usually has great prices, but Polys usually cost more than Prismas.
Whatever, it's less money for Jeff Bezos, so it's all good.
Michael's and Joann's both often have coupons taking the prices down 40%-60%. That's less that Amazon.
Blick has them cheaper, at least this week.
As soon a Prisma Color goes out of business, the Amazon price will go up and the quality will go down. It's called capitalism.
Nope! Worse, it's called Corporatism, which is spawned from unbalanced & unchecked capitalism! It's when a few companies are allowed to wipe out & destroy all other businesses, & run a monopoly without consequences! Bezos is being allowed to gain & control a monopoly! We'd be smart not to buy anything from him/amazon ever again, and take our business elsewhere to support other companies... while we still have the ability to!
Scott Preston
It’s Cannibalism not Capitalism
@@joylynch5204 cannibalism is when you eat other things of your kind - edited because of people correcting me lol
@@joylynch5204 lol No
@@youbstards8470 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Have you heard about brand called: Kooh-i-nor or Hardmuth it's company from Czech Republic... I think you already worked with their stuff... Could you review it please?
Vojtěch Ivan I’m trying to get those for my birthday 😌
She did review the Koh-i-Noor woodless colored pencils.
Rita Wilbur I want to see her review the regular ones, not the wood less
Nova NightcoreUWU I think she used Koh-I-Noor paper in a video but it was used to test a product
The Art Gear Guide has reviewed these.
And this is where I am so torn... I don’t want Amazon to take over the world. I love that it’s possible to get great supplies at a good price, it I want other companies to thrive as well
These are not that good even for the price... I returned my set and got some arteza! They are much better quality for about the same cost
The intro story made me so mad at Amazon, disgusting to take down a hard-working,original product down just to kill competition.. I seriously don't want to buy from them anymore
i will never buy art supplies from amazon; gotta support my OGs, faber castell, until i can't
I’m glad you have lots of money
Faber Castell is AWESOME, but who has money for that? I don't unfortunately. It keeps being my princess dream to have the whole collections, tho. Along with Cintiq Pro
aninhap_zn I agree so ima have to stick with Amazon knock off pencils o
@@padfoot.s.b sad reality right there...
aninhap_zn I am mostly sticking with these pencils cause I’m broke :
ever realize that amazon could have just stolen the exact same formulas of popular brands but decreased it slightly for production costs and/or not to be called a copycat
Honestly wouldn't surprise me given their track record
Once upon a time … that was illegal. Why Amazon is able to do this with almost everything and have a complete monopoly on stuff is beyond me
i know prismsacolor is also owned by a billion dollar company but i’d rather buy from them any day than give money to a man who is worth almost half of prismacolor’s parent company’s entire worth. no one needs that much money in my opinion
It's worse than you think lol
Newell brands is worth $33B, compared to Jeff Bezos's $175B.
joshua tickell that’s how much it’s worth not how much they actually have.
so supporting one billionaire or the other.
true, it’s obnoxious...
I'd rather buy Caran d'Ache or Faber Castell, who make their stuff in Europe and actually have decent quality control.
I hope I'm not the only one not interested in Amazon basics art supplies?
Honestly i don't know how they are... They may be good or bad.... It's just a personal preference...
I refuse to contribute to them shutting down other business to become a monopoly of everything. I’d rather support small businesses.
AdamarisCraftsss Agreed
Did you ask this knowing that you weren't ?
Awkward. I just bought three art supplies for my 17th birthday from Amazon
i just dont feel nice giving money to s company that literally shut down a smaller company for nothing other than to be petty and money
I’ve actually started finding items cheaper elsewhere online then on Amazon, I dunno why but certain products seem to be higher in price now then they used to. I’m guessing Amazon can make them higher then elsewhere because they offer next day free shipping
It’s so hard with Amazon! Like I wanna save coin, but then Amazon has to be a controversial bully.
Just going off my own experiences there are cheap equally good alternatives that already exist. For instance: staedtler is a slightly cheaper alternative to faber castell and the two are so close to being identical (although I feel staedtler transfers much easier to paper whereas faber castell needs more layering and work). And I've heard of other brands in other mediums too
@@auraw2262 The staedtler stuff I happen to have is made in Germany, highly recommend
THE WAY SHE CHANGES HER AESTHETIC EVERY VIDEO
just like how i change my art style every day.
@@maddiedraws146 mood maam
I’m definitely buying those amazon pencils! ❤❤❤😍😍😍
I just love the evolution of Rae's channel ! The new filming setup and everything ! Can't wait to see the content to come !
I like how every time she said his name she showed him laughing like a troll
I appreciate your work on comparing these art supplies and I respect your opinion... HOWEVER, something in my gut just won't let me give Bezos any more money than I already do. I already buy most of my stuff from Amazon and Dick Blick's Art Supply, but I buy brands that are sooo not Amazon brands. It is unfortunate that Amazon has become so big because as you have said, it has pushed smaller companies out of business as with the diaper people! The free shipping that Amazon offers really makes a huge difference in most cases. Of course, don't forget that shipping costs are added in to the basic cost of the products in the case of heavy things like gallon jugs of alcohol or big glue bottles, etc. Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth!
I feel like amazon is becoming a monopoly
thats because it is one
Past tense
"is becoming"??? "Has become" more like it
@@taylorbritt499 became * ??
Indeed...and unreachable if u wanna unsubscribe from anything thru them!!
Would neva buy their product ova original brand ie Prismacolour pencils.... on principle alone!!
I can't support Amazon, even if these were the best pencils in the whole world I'd be fine sticking with Coloursoft
I've had those pencils for nearly half a year thanks to this video, and I don't have any complaints. They are great pencils. I'm doing my own lightfast test and so far they're doing very nicely. I did upgrade to a caran d'ache luminance white pencil because the white pencil just didn't do it for me, but it's good if I need a blender. Otherwise I'm very happy since I've gotten it, they don't break when I sharpen them, they go over everything I use them on (watercolours, markers, poscas, even crayons if I use hairspray on top of it), and they are soft enough to blend but not so soft that I can't do details. These are great pencils for beginner artists to learn off of. I am considering upgrading to the polychromos at some point, but I still love these pencils
Girl “Freak on a Leash”? Really? 💀
As someone who uses and even taught with Prismacolor colored pencils at one point, I am definitely impressed by how pigmented they are.
However, I have a lot of problems with Amazon and art supply stores are already an endangered species so no. I’ll shell out the extra money for Prismacolors
“endangered species” 💀💀💀
I shop at art supply stores sometimes still
@@fayra2016 he just means that pigments are being mined at excessive rates. A lot of pigments and paints are no longer available because of strip mining
@@auraw2262 no, they’re shutting down. The one by the art college shut down in my city
@@auraw2262 that's not what he meant lol. He's talking about how Amazon is causing a lot of small businesses to shut down. Bc of that, they're becoming rare
wow maybe if jeff bezos paid his taxes then maybe i’d pay for amazon products 😍
Oh what about proper working conditions too 😍
I mean to be fair tax law states if you put all your profit s back into your business which is what amazon does you can off set tax... Its a way to continually build a business.. That being said i wish they treated workers better and were more ethically sound.
@@jamiehiggins6261
That's not in all countries though...
They don't pay here in the UK either even though they should.
@@jamiehiggins6261 trickle down economics only work when the ceo does not make billions a year... I worked for amazon for 6 months and can confirm they pay 85% of employees a less than a living wage 😳
@@STICKYArt what's more I didn't say that they treated employees fairly in fact I think they treat employees horribly I simply pointed out that in the United States if you put all of your profit back into the business you do not have to pay taxes and that is how Amazon gets around paying taxes at least in America
I definitely prefer the colors from prisma better than the Amazon colors that you put to the page. So the Amazon ones may feel nice and blend well but the prisma colors definitely are more vibrant more intense and more lush looking
Remember how everything used to be made in China they just put stickers over it and it's now made in Amazon
I love the Amazon colored pencils but I would never support them. I don’t want prisma color to end up like diapers.com
I hope Amazon puts all those other companies out of business.
@@People_R_Foolish why
I like going to the store and Amazon at the same time
G Town no ones asked weirdo
I mean that’s not gonna happen 🙅♀️ there’s two big differences between diapers.com and prisma color ones an off brand knock off site one is really expensive rich actual brand it kinda hard to shut down a well known actual brand
Yes all three things u mentioned, saving coin, art supplies and staying home
i hate amazon. i'd rather pay the extra than support such a horrible company and owner
@@lesbianbi3003 no amazon is like terrible when you dig deep, as they are the worst to their employees, it may be good for the consumers as we can get whatever we want at a few clicks of a button and in just a few days for cheap but they have destroyed many businesses, and they treat their employees like garbage, amazon has enough money to end world hunger billions of times but yet they dont even donate any, the owner just keeps it all for himself and only wants more and more as he is only filled of greed.
Death AngelYT can confirm- my friend worked at amazon for weeks and it was the most soul shattering job she ever had
Death AngelYT can confirm- my friend worked at amazon for weeks and it was the most soul shattering job she ever had
@@BunnyDoesArtThings ikr!!!! Prismacolours for life!!!!! And the other supplies Rae used since I didn't watch the whole video...
Agreed, Amazon is an evil company run by an evil man
This video is definitely going to make my day better
Selling products at a loss has been a fairly common retail strategy for many years. I do, however, wonder how they were able to sell them in the state of Tennessee (and possibly some other states as well) as the state of Tennessee has a law prohibiting any retailer from selling a product at a lower price than cost. This practice is known as "loss leaders" and generally are used by retailers to get new customers into their store. Great video, as always!
I mean, I like your honesty. I would never be able to recommend amazon products though..
Everything is cheaper when you exploit people
@@no_peace he will pay
Yer I get that I use Amazon alot and I wouldn't even recommend buying from them cause of the whole tax evasion thingy but if your into health foods it has its benefit but yer it's a bit weird when people promote their stuff to get money for themselves, but everyone's gotta eat.
See it's you choice but I personally like Amazon and order frequently from Amazon. I like how they deliver things right to our doors ☺️. And plus it gives jobs to many people worldwide
@@priyajha2217 you haven't seen the articles of people dying in their warehouses, have you 🙃
Amazon is trying to cannibalize the art market now.
not only the art market...
All the markets! Monopoly.
@@Lyddiebits yes ;-;
When you don't do much art but u still watch art videos ;--;
Amazon: trying to ruin prismacolours just like everybody else
Rae: Stop right there
Rae: Stop right there... and use my affiliate code in the description below so I can make some money myself out of Amazon crushing the little guy.
@@amandadublin3129 prismacolor is bigger than Amazon brand, plus everyone wants to earn a bit of side coin. Maybe it’s not ethical but people have to do what they have to do to eat
@@plant9933 Ah, I don't have a problem with folks hussling... It's just the full on hypocrisy of complaining about amazon's behaviour then scraping a little off the top for herself that grinds my gears.
If you want to take a moral stand, take an actual moral stand.
@@plant9933 Also... Prismacolour is bigger than one of the biggest companies in the world?
@@amandadublin3129 no, it’s bigger than Amazon brand pencils
"And lastly, not leaving the house"
Well, she's got a point
Edit: you thought I was gonna say thanks for the likes, weren't you?
I liked your comment because of the edit, haha
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I love your channel so much as a beginner artist i am so happy i found your channel and i will definitely buy these as they are cheaper then the real one so thank you so much for doing this :)
Lol I genuinly thought rae was kidding when she was talking about *diapers.com*
Prismacolor is better, don’t give amazon the satisfaction
Prismacolor is more expensive and honestly for the price you pay, pretty bad quality. They keep breaking.
@@mchobbit2951 They do break easily, which is why if you are going to use them, its best to use certain sharpeners and methods to make sure they don't shatter. My sister sharpens them with the Derwent hand-crank sharpener and she's never broken one. If she drops one, before sharpening or using it, she lightly melts the wax back together with a blow drier. It depends.
@@animelover-vj6qy I live in Europe so the issue is that they already break in transit. I had better luck with the Faber Castell and Derwent pencils.
@@mchobbit2951 like I said, experiences with Prismas vary from person to person. It depends. I like them, they work just fine for me and the other artists in my family, but ik other ppl have had problems with them (especially when they're delivered by Amazon as I've noticed). So if you found a brand that works better for you personally, that's great. I still wouldn't complete discourage others from using them tho. And I personally can't afford polychromos anyways, so...that's just my opinion.
Agreed
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I’m so conflicted because while I am super broke and would love to get my art supplies for cheaper, Amazon is so scummy some/most of the time that I don’t want to give them my money 😭 Amazon basics makes my heart happy but hurts my soul
Go ahead and buy the from Amazon.
Its OK....
I wont tell. 👍😜
Sign up for coupons from Micheal's and Joann's. They often have coupons that will take the price of Prisma down 40%-60%. You'll spend LESS getting actual Prismas that way.
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I wouldn’t even buy Amazon colored pencils cuz I just want to keep prismacolor in business
I’m uncomfortable. Also I’m sticking to the name brands.
Love the Bezos/Lex Luther bit.
Had to watch this for entertainment. I’m primarily a digital artist, but I’m trying to get back into hand drawing. A lot of my art has to do with dismantling power structures… so I definitely couldn’t live with seeing Amazon on my art supplies. Since I’m not ready to sell my soul, I dropped $125 on a Prismacolor set. I know it will pay off in the end!
I love that you outed amazon on the diaper scandal.
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@Isma Eman Dude, even if they were being a bit mean, you should never comment on someone's English. Are you like five or something? You should know this.
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It is so interesting how many different Art supplies there are out there, cause in swiss the one Main is caran dache.
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Her boyfriend is not *a thing*
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“Amazon did the most petty thing ever.”
Blackest black paint be like: ;~;
The blackest black thing was just petty. Amazon was being downright evil.
@@nightmarefanatic1819 true I’ll edit my comment :)
One reason I still wouldn’t buy the Amazon one
Friend: “that’s a cool drawing what did you use!”
Me: “Amazon colour pencils”
Friend: “ohhh... yeah those ones?”
You could say "Lex Luthor Basics".. sounds way more epic.
Jokes on you...I don't have any friends!
I honestly think they're marketed to a different population, like hobbyists as opposed to real artists.
@@sleekoduck I mean, I'm a hobbyist because I can't have art as a job (I don't have a bank account, and aside from that, I can't actually handle the pressure from commissions) and I wouldn't go anywhere near Amazon's art stuff... Sure, Faber Castell is more expensive, but they're a lot better. And if I bought from Amazon, I'd be paying 100€ shipping on most things.
For a moment, I was convinced diapers.com would turn out to be the sponsor
Rae, please don't support Amazon or knock offs! It's better to put that money to smaller companies, and people really listen to you. Amazon don't need the business but other art companies do :(
I agree, at first I liked this video but then realized she’s actually just supporting amazon especially with those affiliate links. 😑
Not to say it's okay what amazon does but prismacolor are not a small company. Personally, I'm a "starving artist " that saves a year to get a set of prismacolor pencils that break very easily. If I'm coloring for anxiety, these would be fine imo. I don't blame her for having an affiliation link, we all have to support ourselves and families.
It's called business. A lot of companies do this, not just amazon. It sucks, but for people who can't afford to pay an extra $20 it's not bad to have. She's just doing her job in showing the difference. If people can, or are willing to spend the extra $20 they can. This goes for any amazon basic, or knock off items. If it comes between buying food or buying "name brand" I think I would choose buying food and just buy the cheaper item if the difference in the item isn't that big of a deal. I see so many name brand items that get so expensive because of their name, not their products.
@@fidelianerina - That's not "business" anymore than breaking the leg of your skating competitor before the race is "sports". This isn't capitalism either, it's corporatism. Learn the difference. Business is meant to allow for competition. Monopolies are not competition, they're just "Corporate Raiders". They don't look to actually compete via innovation and quality, their job is to buy up the competition until their shitty company is the only one left standing. Usually that means losing alot of money first, in order to gain future consumers in the long-term. Gaming the market used to be illegal. There were anti-trust & anti-merger laws that prevented it. These laws were meant to protect small businesses & entrepreneurs from big conglomerates that had the capital to overtake them. But by the power of bribery and the Supreme Court ruling of "Citizens United", corporations had power over our legislation and could now dictate the rules & bend the laws to suit them. Jeff Besos & Bill Gates have tried to buy elections plenty of times. This is a threat to our democracy, and you're sitting there justifying this. They weakened anti-trust laws, then they slowly eradicated corporate & banking regulations. These mergers made these companies so big that in 2008, it led to a market collapse and one of the biggest recessions we've ever had since the Great Depression. It's sad that the current state of corporatism is being viewed by the public as "business as usual". It was never like this. Billionaires & huge monopolies are a very new thing to our society, bc we used to put ethics over dollars. Not anymore.
@@sallykitchen9378 , If Prismacolor would go back to the quality they had when I bought my first complete set (made in USA) I would still support them. Every replacement pencil from them has been sheer hell to work with since they started manufacturing in Mexico, I refuse to buy their pencils anymore due to the breakage, warped pencils and loose leads.
I just bought the same set of pencils. Haven’t used them yet. You’re right-the packaging is so pretty!
plz share your opinion about the amazon basic colour pencils ,
plz plzzzz
Hey Rae, something to consider about your review when you layered it might have been a good idea to tell people that if they layer they could use both. AB for the under layers and finish with a top layer of the PC therefore extending the life of the Prismacolors. Just a thought from an old artist in SD..
Oooo, good idea! Tyvm!