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Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers

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Re: Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers

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Post by detaro »

rsync wrote: post #310

As you can imagine, we (rsync.net) buy a lot of hard drives. We use SAS drives so, unfortunately, we can't do the "buy the cheapest external USB drives from Frys and strip them" trick. However, it is very, very hard to buy a new hard drive on Amazon if it is more than a year out of introduction. After a year or so, all of the "new" drives on Amazon have widely varying SMART statistics and lifetime gauges. We very, ve…

Is this problem Amazon specific, or does the supply chain for other large sellers have the same issue?

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Post by inimino »

almog wrote: post #112

Somewhat related - I use amazon price alerting services (camelcamelcamel.com and keepa.com) for some items that are on my wish list. In the past few months I received much more price drops alerts than ever before. Most of these are by new stores that have no reviews. Knowing that I'll be covered by Amazon, and tempted to give what I guessed would be a scum a chance, I ordered two items from different stores and as I…

You mean scam, not scum.

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Post by new299 »

no_wizard wrote: post #302
new299 wrote: post #56

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Ubiuiti products seem really nice. However I've heard many bad things about their management culture. I really don't get how you can get fake product into you own fulfillment chain. But I guess if you sign off on fake invoices that could happen. :)

> Ubiuiti products seem really nice. However I've heard many bad things about their management culture I want to know more about this. I'm not interested in buying from companies that have a tradition of having abusive or exploitative relationship with their employees, whenever it is possible to do so (I rightly acknowledge that its pretty hard to do. Almost every large company has been sued or been reported to have…

Glassdoor reviews appear to be routinely faked. At least in my experience.

Once company I follow on glassdoor, after having an average rating of 2 for years has been getting a new 5 star review once a week for the last 2 months. This seems to be how companies get round any filtering glassdoor has in place, they slowly post good reviews over a period of months.

I wouldn't trust their review averages. Maybe look at the baseline number of negative reviews, and see if the comments seem valid.

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Post by wbl »

notgood wrote: post #216
mdp wrote: post #176

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This isn't very clear when you see pages like this - https://www.amazon.com/Apple/b/ref=w_bl_hsx_s_wi_web_2528944... Also, some Apple products are shipped and sold by Amazon, not third parties - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00W5Q06VU/ref=s9_dcacsd_b... I'm surprised Apple hasn't taken any action against them for this.

Apple taking action against one of its biggest merchants in the US? you must be joking right?

Apple sells directly online and through its own stores. They can afford to lose Amazon as an outlet.

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

Zigurd wrote: post #163
emodendroket wrote: post #129

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Fall River is also extremely economically depressed. I thought that was a typical case but the list of locations suggests maybe that's not entirely true.

Massachusetts isn't as big a boomtown as some areas, but population grew about 4% in a region better known for losing population. Fall River isn't as much a backwater as it used to be.

The whole state is a backwater. The part inside 495 just happens to be dying more slowly because they've got higher education medical and some tech industry.

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Post by rebootthesystem »

WaltPurvis wrote: post #298
rebootthesystem wrote: post #9

It's worst than that. As someone already pointed out, buying software on Amazon is down-right dangerous. And Amazon does not care. Yet, beyond that, counterfeits and scams are rampant on the platform. Scammers take advantage of genuine seller's good rank, insert themselves at lower prices, destroy the genuine seller's revenue stream and deliver cheap knock-offs or even dangerous products to unsuspecting buyers. And p…

>> And past that, Amazon does something really crazy. They allow anyone to leave reviews on any product, whether they purchased the product or not. ... And so, what happens is that there are scammers using fake bad reviews as weapons of war to knock good sellers down in ranking and capture what would have been their sales. How does leaving a bad review for a product have any effect at all on the ranking of a seller ?…

My language was not precise enough in that quote. I meant to say that the products sold by good sellers are knocked down in ranking by bad product reviews. Thanks for picking that up.

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Post by almog »

inimino wrote: post #312
almog wrote: post #112

Somewhat related - I use amazon price alerting services (camelcamelcamel.com and keepa.com) for some items that are on my wish list. In the past few months I received much more price drops alerts than ever before. Most of these are by new stores that have no reviews. Knowing that I'll be covered by Amazon, and tempted to give what I guessed would be a scum a chance, I ordered two items from different stores and as I…

You mean scam , not scum.

Yes, too late for editing now.

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Post by remlov »

rwmj wrote: post #121
arcticbull wrote: post #85

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They're shipped at 60%, though any charge cap would still be reported as 100% by the logic in the battery. I know my MacBook doesn't say 80%: Full! ;)

But my Thinkpad does say 80% full, because I've (deliberately) capped the battery charging at 80% to prolong the life of the battery.

So you're charging only to approximately 64% of the actual battery capacity?

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Post by tzakrajs »

phil21 wrote: post #210
ryanwaggoner wrote: post #132

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Can you elaborate on the actual claim you seem to be dancing around? I'm not completely following...

I can't speak for the OP, but for me I've noticed this looking for hard-to-find specific products as well. You will find that what appears to be wide availability is usually 2 or 3 third-party vendors spamming the same thing multiple times to multiple sites. This becomes especially apparent once you actually order something, and it takes 2 weeks for the vendor to say it's not in stock. Repeat that process across 4 or…

Allow me to grant phil21 the ability to speak for me retroactively. These were exactly my thoughts.
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