More important than the tripod itself is probably the tripod head - you’ll want it stable, easy to adjust, and easy to obtain additional quick mount plates. If budget ends up being too tight buying a good head and a cheap tripod, and later replacing just the tripod might be a sensible option as well.

I hate the marketplace thing, and the harder it became to filter out third parties the more I ordered outside of amazon.

I came to amazon back then because it was one seller offering most I cared about, and a single contact for everything. More and more stuff is now only available via 3rd parties - and with that I can just order stuff bypassing amazon.

I also was almost dismissing it as “who let raddle out of the box again”, but this is indeed a valid complaint, which even is easy enough for kbin to become compliant - so I also don’t see why they didn’t do it immediately when it was pointed out.