Does anyone know if/why it is legal for China to be producing and selling these blatantly knock-off products? It seems outrageous that they are able to sell a product with the same EXACT name (the 'Ove' Glove example in the link) as the copied product.
Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
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Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s confidence-inspiring that Apple hasn’t stopped software updates for AirPort routers (I have a 5th gen). There’s even an unofficial Python script that enables SSH, giving you root access to the NetBSD system underneath. So even when Apple finally does abandon it, it might still be possible to customize the Unix underpinnings.
Oh, that’s neat. What is this script called? How do you run it?
I just found https://github.com/x56/airpyrt-tools and https://jcs.org/2018/06/12/airport_ssh -- fascinating!
Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
#223Fake reviews also contribute to more fake and low quality products being sold. It looks like Amazon simply doesn't care. https://thehustle.co/amazon-fake-reviews FTA: "One stay-at-home mom from Kentucky told me she makes $200-300 per month leaving positive reviews for things like sleep masks, light bulbs, and AV cables." “Do you actually like the products?” I asked. “I don’t know,” she wrote. “I never use them.”
I'll bite - how would them caring make any difference in terms of quality of "fake" reviews? The way I see it the problem is unsolvable. There is no mathematical way to absolutely determine truth of reviews and it is fundamentally an arms race. No measure they could do could keep it true and free of deception.
Trust seems like the fundamental problem. I used to trust the people writing Amazon reviews but now I don’t. If I could filter reviews to those written by people I trust, then those reviews would still be valuable.
It’s not a comprehensive solution since I probably don’t trust enough people to cover the range of products I’m interested in, but it could be better than the current mess.
The limited scale might even be beneficial because I wouldn’t have to wade through hundreds of nearly identical products.
Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s confidence-inspiring that Apple hasn’t stopped software updates for AirPort routers (I have a 5th gen). There’s even an unofficial Python script that enables SSH, giving you root access to the NetBSD system underneath. So even when Apple finally does abandon it, it might still be possible to customize the Unix underpinnings.
Oh, that’s neat. What is this script called? How do you run it?
Duck found this, but I haven't tried it yet:
"To enable SSH on an AirPort base station you just need to set the dbug property to 0x3000, like this:
python -m acp -t {ipv4-address} -p {password} --setprop dbug 0x3000
python -m acp -t {ipv4-address} -p {password} --reboot
Then connect to the device with the username root and whatever password you use to manage the device."
Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
#225It's funny: I always thought the Internet and platforms like Amazon with the collaborative reviewing system would make brands more and more obsolete, because you could just pick high-quality products from smaller manufacturers by looking at user reviews. Now I find that I rely more and more on brands to decide which things I buy, because I simply cannot trust user reviews in most of the cases. Recently there are more…
I’ve bought a few things that offered an Amazon gift card after a 5-star review. In some cases, the product was genuinely good and while I’d not have bothered to write a review, the gift card is enough to get me to write the review. I’m not going to write a good review for a crap product, but I bet plenty of people do.
Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
#226It's funny: I always thought the Internet and platforms like Amazon with the collaborative reviewing system would make brands more and more obsolete, because you could just pick high-quality products from smaller manufacturers by looking at user reviews. Now I find that I rely more and more on brands to decide which things I buy, because I simply cannot trust user reviews in most of the cases. Recently there are more…
> platforms like Amazon
You can't use the word "platform" at Amazon, nor the word "marketplace", it's in violation of the mandatory legal training for FTEs.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
I went from being an enthusiastic fan of Amazon Prime and a $50k spend one year [+] to closing my Amazon account and then warning other people away from it in the space of about five years. I can't recall any other business from which I've moved so quickly and so far from one end of the spectrum of enthusiasm to the other. [+] Most of it was for business -- parts and equipment for customers, it was often cheaper that…
I went from being an enthusiastic fan of Amazon Prime and a $50k spend one year [+] to closing my Amazon account I used to spend about as much as you. Now I almost never buy anything from amazon.com. The only value my Prime membership has to me now is discounts at Whole Foods, and Prime Video. Otherwise, I bet I spend less than $500 a year at amazon.com.
How on earth can you possibly spend so much on random consumer products sold on Amazon? Are people really buying so much junk that it costs more than most peoples yearly salaries?
Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
I went from being an enthusiastic fan of Amazon Prime and a $50k spend one year [+] to closing my Amazon account I used to spend about as much as you. Now I almost never buy anything from amazon.com. The only value my Prime membership has to me now is discounts at Whole Foods, and Prime Video. Otherwise, I bet I spend less than $500 a year at amazon.com.
How on earth can you possibly spend so much on random consumer products sold on Amazon? Are people really buying so much junk that it costs more than most peoples yearly salaries?
Live in a remote place. Own a business. Have more people than yourself to support. You get there pretty quickly.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
> fad overpriced gloves and toothbrushes. That description is unfair. Regardless of whether the product is overpriced or fashionable, I want the correct product, without the shortcuts taken by a fake: unsafe paints, plastics etc. I don't mind "Philips-compatible" brush heads being listed, but the description should be clear. Otherwise we may as well repeal all trademark, copyright and product safety laws.
Several of the examples in OP are admittedly not counterfeit but simply look too similar to a name brand, or are older versions. Neither is illegal per se. (Assuming there's no design patent, and the product page doesn't specify year of manufacture or exact model number, which is common.)
Almost all of them were using the brand name of the product they were faking.
Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
#230It's funny: I always thought the Internet and platforms like Amazon with the collaborative reviewing system would make brands more and more obsolete, because you could just pick high-quality products from smaller manufacturers by looking at user reviews. Now I find that I rely more and more on brands to decide which things I buy, because I simply cannot trust user reviews in most of the cases. Recently there are more…
> platforms like Amazon You can't use the word "platform" at Amazon, nor the word "marketplace", it's in violation of the mandatory legal training for FTEs.
Interesting. What words do they suggest instead?