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Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards

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Re: Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards

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Post by ok_dad »

bombcar wrote: post #101
zarriak wrote: post #59

Walmart has also fed into this a lot by making it so they are your one stop shop by making it ship stuff that isn’t in stock at your local store. They also by default will give you substitutions if you are doing an online store pickup or delivery order which only has more room for abuse or manipulation of substituting your items for things they need to get rid of etc. I only use it for a family member but they have i…

The substitution thing has worked well for me - they now alert you in the app before and you can yes/no the substitution. You can also mark “ride or die” on items and if they can’t get it they don’t substitute. I don’t recall if they upcharge for more expensive substitution now - before it was free, which was a bit abuseable.

> You can also mark “ride or die” on items

Is that what the mark is called, "ride or die"? That would be very un-corpo-like, but I would welcome it.

Re: Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards

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Post by kube-system »

wyre wrote: post #26
powerhour wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"eBay gets away with selling random junk from random sellers, how can we get a piece?"

I’ve had much better experiences getting what I order from eBay than I have from Amazon. Random junk is fine, but I at least want it to be the random junk I ordered.

Yeah, the good thing about eBay's design is that their listings are (mostly) seller-centric rather than product-centric. There's no dice roll (or obfuscation) of where the product comes from when you order a product. The feedback rating that you see above the fold on the majority of listings is the seller's feedback.

Re: Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards

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Post by Ancapistani »

jessaustin wrote: post #161
lotsofpulp wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a baseline expecting of quality, because Walmart would not be expected to buy from counterfeiters. For example, if I buy 3 mule team borax from Walmart, I expect it to come via official sources. If I buy 3 mule team borax from a Walmart reseller, I have no idea where it is sourced from or how much those entities care about reputation. It could be from 3 mule team, it could be counterfeit.

The brand is "20 Mule Team". I would be quite suspicious of "3 mule team": how would a 3-mule hitch even work? Who makes a harness for three mules ? b^)

I don’t know if it’s made specifically, but conceptually it’s pretty simple - the rear two would be in tandem with a “lead” mule in the front.

Think of Rudolph in front of the eight other reindeer :)

Re: Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards

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Post by deepdriver »

kbos87 wrote: post #8

The marketplace-ization (is there a word for that?) of every retailer feels so short sighted. I’ll throw out an example I’ve noticed lately - furniture manufacturers. Search for any item on Crate & Barrel or West Elm’s website and you’ll first see a handful of exclusive pieces that are clearly built for the brand. Keep scrolling and the search results gradually become a bunch of generic third party items that you can…

I briefly shopped on Walmart.com because Amazon had marketized, destroying my trust in reviews, brands, and product quality, and Walmart had not. That time is past. Now I find myself sticking to manufacturer websites or buying things in the store again.

Re: Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards

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Post by mzs »

Someone1234 wrote: post #6
jonnycomputer wrote: post #3

There was a time that I turned to buying from walmart.com as alternative to amazon, precisely because it wasn't taking the 3rd-party seller approach; but then they decided they had to imitate Amazon. Well, no thanks.

I agree. One positive remains though: If you buy from Walmart you get it from Walmart and their supply chain. With Amazon because they "mingle" inventory from third parties, you can order shipped & sold by Amazon.com and still get a counterfeit product, because a third party slipped it in. And, yes, that has happened to me personally by the way.

Not anymore, I got a counterfeit control pad from walmart.com. Thankfully I was able to return it at the store.

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Post by _ea1k »

I'm shocked that the response to this is that people want curation of products, old retail style. Sure lets go back to the days when an HDMI cable cost $30 and things like phone chargers were overpriced.

The better answer is that marketplaces should have to have reasonably consistent return policies. Push the risk back onto them so that it stops the fraudulent products.

Keep the part that lets basically anyone start up a business and attach themselves to the marketplace at what should be the market price. There are plenty of good things coming from these marketplaces.

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Post by noasaservice »

nope96 wrote: post #45

A third party seller did, not Walmart.. However, Walmart itself did recently sell me an OEM 'not for resale' labeled hard drive, so there is some strangeness going on in their warehouse just like at Amazon

Walmart is *endorsing* any subcontractor.

I literally do not care what back-end contractor of theirs is doing.

My transaction is conducted on walmart.com , my credit card transaction goes to a walmart account, and my credit card bill shows a walmart line-item.

This "redirecting responsibility" to somewhere else is the fraudulent grift going on there. Walmart wants to put their name on transactions? Make them live with the repercussions dealing with fraud. (Same goes for any online retailer that has a primary presence, and intertwines back end contractors or 3rd party sellers.)

Exceptions are for ebay and etsy, since it is blatantly clear that individuals open their own shop and ebay/etsy only provide a basic framework.

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Post by algoatecorn »

hotpotamus wrote: post #175
_jal wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dropped Amazon (again) a while back. I'd gone back to using them during the plague, and got lazy. What jolted me back was multiple delivery failures in a row followed by a shitty "give me my money back" experience. Right now, Amazon combines the honesty of flea markets with the reliability of a stoned teenager. I'm back to shopping at physical stores, and am enjoying it, at least at the moment. And when ordering th…

The worst I've got recently is from the Amazon locker team. The recently sent me a notice that they'd "learned that my package had been delayed". I don't mind that much; shit happens, but that passive language just disgusted me. No, you weren't able to deliver my package on time Amazon. I'm sorry if Jeff Bezos sticks you in a solitary wellness pod or whatever Orwellian punishment he's dreamt up for people who delay p…

I would guess that many Amazon fulfillment employees did not feel they had options when seeking employment.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

jessaustin wrote: post #161
lotsofpulp wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a baseline expecting of quality, because Walmart would not be expected to buy from counterfeiters. For example, if I buy 3 mule team borax from Walmart, I expect it to come via official sources. If I buy 3 mule team borax from a Walmart reseller, I have no idea where it is sourced from or how much those entities care about reputation. It could be from 3 mule team, it could be counterfeit.

The brand is "20 Mule Team". I would be quite suspicious of "3 mule team": how would a 3-mule hitch even work? Who makes a harness for three mules ? b^)

Hah, good catch. Do not know why I had 3 mule team stuck in my head. I used it as an example because I just bought it this morning.

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Post by inferiorhuman »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #76
hbn wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"What if it hurts our reputation? Customers might flock to a competitor!" "Competitor?" entire board room bursts into laughter

I did stop using Amazon years ago except as an Aliexpress alternative after I found out about commingling. I moved my business to Best Buy/Costco/Target/Walmart/Home Depot/Staples/etc. But the reason Amazon probably does not care about that because they have much better profit margin opportunities (AWS, Prime Video and Music, warehouse infrastructure as a service and delivery as a service).

Hate to break it to you but both Target and Walmart sell third-party goods too. So does DigiKey…
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