Reviews & Comments of Cultivate: Shop Local, Shop Deals, Shop Smart chrome extension

Did not offer any local recommendations at all, just where the product in question came from, which wasn't very helpful.

I get weird static across my whole google chrome window while watching YouTube. One I disabled this extension it stopped.

It's not what i thought it was. I was expecting for it to find american sellers on amazon. It does not do that. The entire list of sellers are not on amazon.

I like the seller info, BUT, the giant box spamming alternate places to buy something similar is both annoying to look at and slows down browsing. Overall and awful extension.

Very good. I mentioned to them that it wasn't picking up the Chinese sellers that use shill company address' in the UK to make out they are UK based. I thought of an idea for coding it but knew it would take me forever to work it out. They picked up the idea and have implemented it. So now it even reveals (on Amazon) the Chinese sellers using shill address'. They are quick to fix bugs when reported. Mentioned one the other day with seller location being flagged wrong but it was fixed shortly after. For showing where Amazon sellers are, its really good. That's mainly what I use it for, haven't touched the other parts.

Annoying, always shows window that asks for your money (so called "donation"). If you close the windows it pop ups on the next page, blocking buttons and other page elements.

I enjoy being able to see where a product is coming from that alone makes the extension worth having around, but this extension gets in the way of my ebay business. I'm trying to work, not shop and I have no way of shutting the app off just for one site. The available optional products offered really haven't been useful so far, a lot of items have nothing to do with that I'm looking for.

Works great on the German Amazon but seeing as i exclusively shop on the currently unsupported Swedish Amazon, mostly for warranty reasons, it's not terribly useful for me. I can manage without it today but i really needed it when the site first launched, it was a horrible experience filled to the brim with Chinese junk, it was legit unusable.

I like the concept and it did help me identify some local stores that carried the same product, but this totally failed at saving any $ because it matched to products with different quantities. For example, a product I frequently buy was $55 for a pack of 64 on Amazon. They showed Walgreens had exact same item for $14.99 - but when I click through, it was $14.99 for a pack of 9, not 64. That's almost 2x the price per unit and they only had 9 packs and 24 packs. Both were higher than Amazon.

Awesome extension that is helping you shop for local brands, save money, and give back!

Might be good someday, but it finds alternative products that are no where near the same as the product I'm looking for. That is only on Amazon, the app hasn't found a single alternative on ebay. Country of origin seems to work on Amazon and that's desirable.The concept is great, but the application falls short.

no matter what the store, no matter what the item, "cheaper alternatives" are ALWAYS not the item being compared to. its not helping my buying experience if you keep suggesting inferior items at lesser price. i'm not shipping for THEM, i'm shopping for what you see on the page. in this state, this app is no better than amazons own "other similar items." except its worse. at least other items have a side by side run down comparing them. this extension is simply trying to lure away the shopper to buy something different, cheaper, and inferior, through some other seller. oh. and those alternative sellers and products? they're also shipped from China. not a single local business/seller. so what is even the point? Removed.

Don't even hesitate to download this extension. I always assumed I was finding the best prices on Amazon, and the first time I saw cultivate's prices pop up when shopping, I realized I had been wasting money for years and years. I usually don't download anything on chrome in fear of cluttering my browser experience, but you will not regret adding cultivate - it's quite literally free money. Bottom line - you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't download.

Cultivate is GAME CHANGING!!! I have already saved tonsss, donated to great causes and shopped local. Crazy I didn't know about it earlier

This was recommended by a YouTube channel I follow, so I wanted to try it out. Am I missing something? Literally EVERY product I have browsed on Amazon, I get this returned: "Sorry, we were unable to find alternatives for this product from verified sellers". Every single one. I looked at a wide range of products to see results - craft supplies, hand tools, electronics, housewares, cables, etc. Every single item gives that message from Cultivate. So I can see it is made in China (which I already could see in most cases without the extension enabled) but the product has no alternatives available. Hardly useful to me.

Extremely useful. I will never buy a product from China again!

So, the add-on tells me that a particular product (USB-C to RJ45 adapter) is being sold by a Chinese company. Great! I thought... let's see what it recommends... Of course, it recommends a Lenovo product where Lenovo is a Chinese company. So... it seems they don't mind is you buy Chinese so long as they get a cut. My vote: Scam

Waiting for the devs to make it work on Indian ecommerce websites (Amazon.in, Flipkart.in) too. This will be a really handy extension in finding out the local products.

Make it work on amazon.in (Amazon India)

Made in USA feature seems to be removed, so now it's just a data mining for profit/charity extension.

Love this so much, I can donate to charity while shopping online. Doing good while burning my wife's money. Nice!

I like seeing where something is coming from but the spam you get when you go on alieexpress is getting extremely annoying. I shop on alieexpress for tiny electronics for two reasons: 1: Ebay has the same thing, except at 3 times the price because it's all dropshipping/resellers, 2: I can't find everything on ebay. You used to be able to disable the godawful popup forever, but now it's only 24 hours, I get it you get paid by ebay, but it's abusive.

I absolutely love this app. Can buy with confidence products coming from countries that have industry standards.

Awesome! I searched for a few products to see if it actually worked, and sure as hell it works perfectly! Plus it lets you browse on amazon and find the manufactures own site which is shown at the top when searching! I can use Amazon but i don't have to pay Amazon! I love it thank you laowhy86

The extension is very useful. However, I would like to see an option to not make it US specific. Identifying Chinese junk products is useful, but recommending other countries of origin and not just USA would be even better.

Why is it so difficult to contact anyone at Cultivate.? What does Cultivate define as "made in" if its manufactured in China but company owner is in US.?

I doesn't work when I use NordVPN... but I usually browse Amazon when VPN is enabled.. please fix

Only download this extension if you want to see people criticize what you browse on Amazon without offering you any additional value. It's advertised as a way to avoid shady and low-quality Chinese companies while browsing Amazon. It doesn't integrate with Amazon at all. You search for a product on Amazon and it tells you where to find a more expensive, similar product elsewhere. Sometimes 10x the price on Amazon. There's a huge difference between a Chinese company and a western company that manufactures in China. Western companies' Chinese-made products are still of higher quality and value.

Got recommend this extension by the guys at ADV China. I like the extension and it generally works well, though not always reliable with brand origins, for example, on one store page, it correctly showed an electronics brand as "from China", while on another page, it showed the same brand as "from Germany" despite neither the owner nor the outbound shipping location being German (though the brand takes its name from a German word, so it might be that). As a UK user, I would love to see recommendations expand to include products from the UK or Europe in the future, though it's understandable if there are no plans to.

Guys, you can't be asking for the ability to read and write all data on all websites. That's just not acceptable and it makes me think you're just as untrustworthy as the people we want to avoid buying products from. You need to fix this or you're not going to get any sensible person to adopt the extension, which if you're legitimate, should be very upsetting for you. You should be doing everything you can to make the extension appealing and not scary. If you don't fix this, then people SHOULD be scared off.

I did not realise how much stuff on amazon is sold by the CCP. I have no problem buying something from a Chinese person but I hate the thought of funding China's corrupt disgrace of a government who even commits genocide and seems to get away with it. Screw the CCP, the CCP needs to go!

Interesting, but doesn't work on Australian versions of stores, so is useless to me. (Works on Amazon.com, but not Amazon.com.au)

Love this extension. Once added, it'll donate portions of my online purchases to the charity of my choice. In addition, it helps me source American made products.

Recommended by AVD Podcast but it can be better Added due to ADV Podcast, however, here are the issues: 1. It doesn't show county on the browsing page it only show on the product detail page. This make it hard for me to locate the US made product in the selection phase. Cellar did a good job at this 2. The recommendation for American made alternative is not working well, however, I am sure it can be fixed in the future. Keep up the good work, don't make it “差不多”

Not perfect but better than nothing. I'm not sure how seller location is identified usually but it doesn't seem to go any deeper than listing the Amazon seller provided location. Recently purchased a niche item, listed as from an American seller, turns out to be in China. Looking at the seller profile, the business address listed was in Georgia but the title was in Chinese. Didn't find out til after I received shipping information that it was coming from China... a little disappointed there. There should be a way within the extension to "report" a seller as such.

Absolutely fantastic. I'm using it in the UK and it instantly tell you who the actual seller is and where they are located. It makes avoiding the cheap tat so much easier and supporting the brands you want to! Highly, highly recommended this for everyone!

Finally works in the uk

Working on amazon.ca, sweet!

Any way to make it work on Amazon.co.uk?

Fantastic idea, but the add-on only seems to work in the US region. Would be great if it supports Amazon (or anything) EU/UK, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan .... and so on.

Somewhat useful but I hope it gets better, there's many listings it doesn't work on yet. There's only so much any extension that uses sites' API can do as long as our corrupt gov representatives let these companies get away with concealing their products' manufacturing history. Amazon is 100% complicit in these sham Chinese junk products & should be cracked down on.

This thing is awesome, great concept and I'm sure will continue to grow in library and accuracy as time goes on. Keep up the good work!

This is one of the most helpful and informative extensions you can add for online shopping! There are thousands of resellers online that sell products that Chinese companies ripped off from American brands. This helps you see that the seller and the brand are in the US, employing Americans and growing commerce here.

This plugin only works on the American Amazon, so if your amazon does not end with .com it wont work... love the idea though and i hope there will be a global version later on in it's life cycle.

Great idea, but I'd love it if it would work with Amazon Canada. Keep it up guys, thanks for informing the buying public.

This is honestly such a great thing. Not only does it show you what products are made so you know you aren't getting ripped off, but it donates a small amount to charity, for no cost at all! If I could I would rate this more than 5 stars, especially because it's free! 10/10

can you please enable the feature for amazon.de?

Love the idea. It’s my new favorite app, it great to find American made products.

Update: Never mind... it's working now. I went to the ADV example of RinneTraps, and I saw the little line saying, "Seller from NY, United States" with the Cultivate Infinity logo. Looking forward to see more data through this! Unfortunately it's not working for me on Chrome 90.0.4430.212? I'm trying to use it but nothing is happening. Clicking on the pinned logo shows nothing but a search window. Going to Amazon does not display any altered pages showing the countries of origin. I've turned off all script blockers, ad blockers, etc while surfing Amazon. I hope I can get this working soon! Found this through ADV/Serpent/Milk! :)

Doesn't work. Just shows you "Sold directly by Amazon" - no way! I would've never guessed :O I realize this isn't an easy addon to make, but c'mon guys, literally NOTHING I search shows me the country of origin. I even searched up the masks shown in ADVChina, still getting "Sold directly by Amazon". Something tells me this project is abandoned. Doesn't help that it looks and functions similar to adware. This addon needs A LOT more work to be considered usable.

Great work!

I saw this on ADVChina and figured I would give it a shot. I am well and truly tired of all the trash chinese fake brands so if this can show me at least a few of of them so I can shy away from them, then this has done its job. In fact helped me find an Aluminum Mouse Pad made in Taiwan...bought it!

i would love to have this on lazada and shopee please... thank you <3

Its not so bad. The only issue I had was that there were lots of products on Amazon where the country of origin was not stated (it would not pop up or appear). Some products would say "sold directly by Amazon". Otherwise, I was able to buy certain other things that supported the U.S./Canada.

Terrible advertising

Good idea, but it needs to be expanded to all the different versions of Amazon, not just the US version.

Great concept, wish it was also for amazon.ca though.

A working and useful extension that finally allows me to buy what items I want and have more purchasing power. If you want a bit more buyer security get this.

Like the idea, however, it doesn't work. As a small manufacturing business that is listed all over amazon, FB and the web, known for making US made Jeep accessories, I cant find anything of ours listed, nor does it show in the extension when browsing on a page if its US made or not. It is a glorified search engine, probably working off referrals like Amazon Associates. And its not going t o work well until Amazon fixes data integration by the new 70,000 Chinese sellers over the last year. Us sellers are under a constant hit by Amazon, while they are making tons off of these new sellers, and do not care that many of these sellers are sabotaging US seller data, or outright being deceptive using USA in their descriptions (or flat out stealing them). I would love to sere this work, but it would take adding code to company websites to do this. And guess what, that would mean less sales, and probably some federal whining / action... so it wont happen.

Great user experience, helped me spend my money wisely to support small businesses here at home

This great extension has made finding American made products easier than ever.

DECEPTIVE: When the company IS a made-in-the-US brand, it doesn't come out and say so. It just doesn't comment on it being from China. Furthermore it links to "## American-made alternatives" underneath the seller location, which seems to imply that what you're looking at is NOT American made. I tried this with some listings I know to be made in the US. It seems like a deliberate deception to try and drive traffic through the app.

Excellent concept with vast potential. So far the results are marginal but it's a great start. As an example, all products Sold By Amazon are identified as US, when Amazon sold products are overwhelmingly made in china. That's why Amazon refuses to identify Country Of Origin on any of their listings, and why Cultivate HAS to work.

I buy a lot on Amazon, but I don't want to purchase products from China any longer. They don't tell you the country of origin so this extension is just what I needed to guide my purchasing choices. Thanks!

Great extension. Easy to use. Perfect for seeing who you are really buying from online.

Was really hoping this app would work, but it doesn't seem to be accurate. I constantly have to double check everything. The other day I was looking for an electric kettle (by the way almost all of them are made in china) and this app recommended a product that is definitely made in china. I'm not sure how the app finds products, but it's definitely not a thorough investigation. Moral of the story you can use the app for hints for things, but always double verify. Maybe this extension would benefit with a way for users to give feedback if a product is incorrectly marked made in usa.

Saw this chrome extension recommended on the ADV Podcast, and I knew I had to give it a shot. This is a great extension for really finding out where the products are made, shows where sellers are selling from, and really brings much needed transparency to the customer shopping experience. But I do my shopping on the amazon.ca (Amazon Canada) side of things though, and would love to see it working there. But right now it is easy enough to search the same product I'm interested in on the US site.

I love this app it's such a great idea. It's great to be able to support domestic manufacturers and I hope they expand to other countries as well. I'd like to know if there's a Firefox add on in the works as well?

I'd love for the extension to work in other versions of Amazon (like amazon.co.uk or amazon.it) but it's such a fantastic idea. Keep up the good work!

Really appreciate if you could support amazon au (Australia) but 5 stars anyway.

A must have for online shopping.

Excellent extension that every american should have. Help out your fellow brothers :)

This extension makes buying American easy! Translating vocal discourse to actual action with the ease of one click of a button

Mark Cuban is a genius. Saw the article on CNBC today. This extension is just what I wanted. I always strive to find the made in usa items and this takes that effort away and makes it easy. Nice product.

This extension is very easy to use without taking away from the online shopping experience! Two Thumbs Up!!

User friendly and easy to use. Strongly recommend !!!

Instructions were easy to follow, and the extension filled with US based options right away when I was online shopping. Looking forward to using this.