Whenever I am buying something I care about I avoid Amazon. I am cancelling prime because of it.
Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
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Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut. I was irate, having paid $10 for these. So I go online to leave a review and warn people off... only to find that the seller "no longer existed". They absolutely d…
Ha ha, I had the exact same experience cutting guitar string with wire cutters from my local dollar store.
This will be your experience 99% of the time using cheap wire cutters on strings. They’re meant for soft copper wire, and strings have steel cores!
The $5 guitar string tool will work every time, though.
Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#113The counterfeit and review manipulation issues have rendered Amazon unpleasant enough for me that buying local is something I've started to enjoy again. I trust the merchant to have performed some kind of vetting for merchandise sold on premise, and the price is often good or (interestingly enough) even better than on Amazon. Often enough local is still more expensive, but it beats browsing Amazon for an hour, siftin…
I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut. I was irate, having paid $10 for these. So I go online to leave a review and warn people off... only to find that the seller "no longer existed". They absolutely d…
> I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut.
This is normal.
For instance, when I work on my bicycle, I have to use a $40 Park Tool to cut brake lines and shifter cables. The $40 tool delivers far better results than you could ever get from a conventional wire cutter.
Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut. I was irate, having paid $10 for these. So I go online to leave a review and warn people off... only to find that the seller "no longer existed". They absolutely d…
inexpensive wire snips are usually only good for cutting copper wire, though. they aren't made of hardened steel, which is necessary for cutting the steel guitar strings.
$10 is not inexpensive for wire snips though. Which is my complaint.
Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
The third party seller stuff has really killed my faith in Amazon. If I wanted to have to read reviews for the entity selling the good and have some expectation of getting a counterfeit/broken good, I would go to eBay. I used to go to Amazon because I could trust them, but that trust is lonnng gone. These days I'm shopping more and more locally, because I can actually see the thing I'm buying. Side note: I'm sad to s…
Actually I find ebay to be much better than Amazon for buying. I can read the seller reviews and I know they're generally legitimate. Particularly the negative reviews, which is all I need to see if I want to know what the seller does wrong, if anything. I can look up a seller to make sure he's sourced an item properly, for example, newegg sells SD cards on ebay so I know newegg is sourcing SD cards properly and I'm…
The best part about Ebay is that if you do get a fraud item and can prove it Ebay simply refunds you and you can keep whatever you got since it wasn't what was advertised.
Amazon to the best of my knowledge does make you return items for refunds even when they are frauds.
Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut. I was irate, having paid $10 for these. So I go online to leave a review and warn people off... only to find that the seller "no longer existed". They absolutely d…
> I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut. This is normal. For instance, when I work on my bicycle, I have to use a $40 Park Tool to cut brake lines and shifter cables. The $40 tool delivers far better re…
$10 snips should be better than that!
I replaced them with $5 Stanley wire cutters that had 0 issue dealing with guitar strings.
So what happened is I was given a 10c piece of junk and paid $10 for the privilege of being ripped off.
Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I purchased some wire cutters a year or two ago from Amazon and they were fine for the speaker wire I was cutting... Until this year when I tried to cut a guitar string with them and found a perfect guitar gauged hole in my snips every time I tried to cut. I was irate, having paid $10 for these. So I go online to leave a review and warn people off... only to find that the seller "no longer existed". They absolutely d…
inexpensive wire snips are usually only good for cutting copper wire, though. they aren't made of hardened steel, which is necessary for cutting the steel guitar strings.
I've trashed a couple of pairs of nice wire cutters by using them on guitar strings; you really need a pair of hard wire cutters rated to cut 2mm piano wire. StewMac sell a perfectly satisfactory pair for $12, but I'd suggest a pair from Knipex or Xuron if you do a lot of string changes.
https://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/Types_of_Tools/Pliers_...
https://www.knipex.com/nc/en/products/?page=group_detail&par...
Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
inexpensive wire snips are usually only good for cutting copper wire, though. they aren't made of hardened steel, which is necessary for cutting the steel guitar strings.
$10 is not inexpensive for wire snips though. Which is my complaint.
$10 is nothing compared to the cost of high end, quality hand tools that will last. In the case of a expecting to cut hardened wire, the cutter needs to be of a good alloy and hardened adequately to hold an edge. $10 doesn’t buy anything from the knipex catalog, for instance.
Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#119+100 Amazon is trying hard to keep counterfeits and fake products/reviews under the rugs for as long as possible, so the more publicity to their ignorance - the merrier.
With the prevalence of counterfeits and their push to feature "Sponsored" products in SERPs, the case to ditch Amazon becomes easier every day.
Re: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
#120Isn’t it more accurate that a seller is using Amazon’s publishing platform to counterfeit and sell other publishers books? The title suggests Amazon has wrongdoing here. You could make the case that they need more policing and review but it’s not like Amazon is knowingly selling counterfeit here.
Amazon printed, packaged, sorted, shipped and charged the buyer for the book. And it wasn't even the first time. Who is this mysterious third party that should be responsible here?
Why would "we fully automated our counterfeiting process" be an excuse?