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Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

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Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

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Post by 0xffff2 »

tracer4201 wrote: post #8
erentz wrote: post #2

I see the Amazon fake products problem as related to the social network fake news problem. In both cases you have a company that wants to both have it's platform cake and eat it's publisher cake at the same time. (Sorry for the bad spin on that phrase there.) One important part of our solution here has to be that we force these companies to take a position one way or the other. So in Amazon's case it would need to de…

Disclaimer: I don’t own amazon directly but do own funds where Amazon is a significant chunk. I don’t agree with this kind of regulation. It’s simply not the governments role to decide. You as a seller are not forced to sell on Amazon. I say that as the spouse of a seller who owns a store on EBay that’s continued to be successful. We had a bad experience selling on Amazon and are better off without them. Of course th…

Serious question: What is the point of a “disclaimer” that applies to nearly everyone with a retirement account?

Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

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Post by nostromo »

quickthrowman wrote: post #9
empath75 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you solve it by making amazon directly liable for fraud on their platform. They’d clean up the problem pretty quickly after losing a few billion dollars in lawsuits.

How do you convince Congress to pass that legislation when there’s lots of money on the other side lobbying for the status quo?

There's a lot of anti-tech energy on the left lately. And Bezos painted a target on his back by getting into Twitter feuds with Trump. He's also now synonymous with the Washington Post which has never met a Republican they liked.

This all adds up to a company nobody seems to like in DC. If there's any company I could see getting a Washington smackdown soon, it's Amazon.

Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

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Post by crankylinuxuser »

And the safe analysis here is:

Amazon == Fake Products == Scamazon.

Buying electronic products is not safe, due to fake and fire hazards. Buying body products is no safe due to unknown and untested chemicals in counterfeits. Buying food is unsafe because completely unknown provenance. Buying household goods like water filters can lead to flooding.

Buying things on amazon will lead to something bad.

Don't buy scamazon.

Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

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Post by miked85 »

marcinzm wrote: post #7
miked85 wrote: post #6

I have started buying most products directly from manufacturer's websites or in physical stores now. The amount of fake products on Amazon is appalling, I wonder why they don't put effort into stopping this.

>I wonder why they don't put effort into stopping this. Because they make more money than they lose as a result while driving competitors into bankruptcy. Eventually they'll make a big public spectacle of getting it fixed (once the economics stop being in their favor) and everyone will forgive them.

Agreed. I assume they have ran the numbers and decided that the small number of customers they lose (like myself) don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

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Post by agrippanux »

miked85 wrote: post #6

I have started buying most products directly from manufacturer's websites or in physical stores now. The amount of fake products on Amazon is appalling, I wonder why they don't put effort into stopping this.

I started buying electronics at my local physical Best Buy. I thought 4 years ago I would never step inside a Best Buy again but a string of obvious fakes from Amazon changed my mind.
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