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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 jtms »

reaperducer wrote: post #106
thaumaturgy wrote: post #31

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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.

Whole Foods is another one I have gone from super fan to hating. Every time I shop there now is compounding failures of poor stock consistency, more online order shoppers than actual customers clogging the isles, and overall drop in quality

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Post by ajmurmann »

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…

Just stopping the insane co-mingling of products from different sellers would go such a long way. The co-mingling is in essence destroying accountability and evidence!

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Post by cm2012 »

wincy wrote: post #208
jahnu wrote: post #127

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Only allow reviews from verified purchasers

I bought a $25 product recently on Amazon. In the box there was a “coupon” that I’d get $20 back if I left a 5-star review for the product on Amazon. Instead I left a 1-star review saying that they were trying to game the system, and my review got REMOVED! I give up.

Would it have upset you if they were asking for any review at all, instead of requiring a 5 star one?

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Post by baybal2 »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #88

It'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…

> Really a shame that Amazon does not seem to care much about this

No, no, no! They do care, and a lot!

Amazon has been busy catching up to, and undercutting Alibaba on China-US direction for the last 5 years.

Amazon has managers whose full time job is to poach vendors from Alibaba.

I'm getting spammed by their salespeople non-stop

Re: Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

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Post by brownbat »

wincy wrote: post #208
jahnu wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only allow reviews from verified purchasers

I bought a $25 product recently on Amazon. In the box there was a “coupon” that I’d get $20 back if I left a 5-star review for the product on Amazon. Instead I left a 1-star review saying that they were trying to game the system, and my review got REMOVED! I give up.

I've had people refund entire purchases and let me keep the item after I complain about a real defect, all just to avoid a low review. The most surreal instance was when I just asked a completely innocuous question and was offered a refund--clearly misunderstand my curiosity as a complaint.

I love imagining the surreal consequences of a world where reputation is far more valuable than the products themselves... but that must be unsustainable.

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Post by citiguy »

reaperducer wrote: post #224
citiguy wrote: post #185

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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." https://github.com/x56/airpyrt-tools/issues/1

Nice. Thanks!

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Post by gowld »

president wrote: post #221

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.

What are you going to do, file a complaint with the WTO?
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