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Re: $118 16TB SSD on Amazon, 4 star reviews mention cuff links and coffee cups

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Post by mrb » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 6:25 AM UTC

toomanyusers wrote: post #39

mrb wrote: post #35

My technique to avoid fraudulent products on Amazon: click on the seller ("Sold by mucaoxikeji") which reveals... "No feedback yet - NEW SELLER" Done ! Only took 2 seconds. It's very simple: I never buy from new sellers, or from those with too few reviews (<100). You do this and honestly you avoid 99% of fraudulent products. The 1% that can hit you is cases where for example counterfeit items end up in commingled inv…

Does Amazon have a policy guaranteeing it won't ship items sourced from commingled inventory with its sellers when you purchase "Ships by and Sold by Amazon.com"? I heard that you can get items from random small sellers (including counterfeit items and used items being packaged as new) even when you think you are purchasing only from Amazon. I haven't bought anything on Amazon since.

I don't know. Some claim that up until 3 years ago, Amazon was still commingling their own inventory, but they have stopped since then. However I can't find any authoritative source to confirm this.

Re: $118 16TB SSD on Amazon, 4 star reviews mention cuff links and coffee cups

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Post by Brian_K_White » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 9:10 AM UTC

canoebuilder wrote: post #30

Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regulators have been made impotent. Who’dda thought that regulators maintained order and protected people?

You think there should be order and rule following in society? And laws and regulations should be enforced? Looks like we’ve got ourselves a white supremacist over here.

Indeed it looks like we have.

It's curious how selective the people who cry "order and rules" the loudest are with which rules they consider valid and which they don't, and which rule-breaking they consider criminal disorder and which they don't.

But more importantly, this comment, and now mine too, are simply off topic and irrelevant, and deserve downvotes for that (and mine also for going personal), not actually the exposed odious political attitude, though I somehow just clairvoiantly divine that you don't believe that is the reason.

Re: $118 16TB SSD on Amazon, 4 star reviews mention cuff links and coffee cups

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Post by dplgk » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 1:27 PM UTC

forgingahead wrote: post #28

This is hilarious because to sign up as a seller on Amazon, they do this onerous process where amongst other things: 1. You need to upload photo ID and address details that have a funky AI auto-check (which often fails) to ensure what you've entered is what is on the ID docs. 2. They mail (snail mail) you a physical postcard with a printed One-Time Token to enter into your pending seller account. 3. You need to do a…

Reminds me of their job interview process. So rigorous and must make sure they're hiring the most genius and committed people. Come in office for an 8 hour dog and pony show. You must memorize their cult sayings to make sure you are obsessed with the customer and everything is executed at the highest caliber.

Meanwhile, their UX is atrocious, apps have many things that frustrate the user and their design/UI is a joke.

It's 4 clicks to find out what I actually paid for an item in an order I made. How is that customer obsessed?

Re: $118 16TB SSD on Amazon, 4 star reviews mention cuff links and coffee cups

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Post by Fatnino » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

dntrkv wrote: post #36

ISL wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a good chance that Amazon does care and the fraudsters are able to occasionally get past the countermeasures. Amazon ships a remarkable number of products. If only 10^-4 of them are fraudulent, there will still be quite a few bad products . We'll generally hear about the bad ones with outsized volume.

Seriously, this situation is so rare that it was posted on HN. If this was a common experience, nobody would give a shit. This posting is obviously fake and anybody that orders this device kinda deserves to be scammed (not really, nobody deserves that, but still... c'mon).

This situation is very common to the extent it usually goes uncommented.

I don't know why this particular post made it to the top of the page today.

Re: $118 16TB SSD on Amazon, 4 star reviews mention cuff links and coffee cups

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Post by Red_Leaves_Flyy » Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 1:38 AM UTC

canoebuilder wrote: post #30

Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regulators have been made impotent. Who’dda thought that regulators maintained order and protected people?

You think there should be order and rule following in society? And laws and regulations should be enforced? Looks like we’ve got ourselves a white supremacist over here.

What point are you even trying to make with this nonsensical flame bait?

Re: $118 16TB SSD on Amazon, 4 star reviews mention cuff links and coffee cups

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Post by canoebuilder » Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #45

canoebuilder wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think there should be order and rule following in society? And laws and regulations should be enforced? Looks like we’ve got ourselves a white supremacist over here.

What point are you even trying to make with this nonsensical flame bait?

Society seems to be degrading along multiple axes, from non enforcement of regulations against false advertising, rampant street crime that is furthered and facilitated by not prosecuting the offenders, breakdown in the education system teaching stuff far kookier than young earth creationism, the massive ineptness and exploitation in the handling of the virus situation, the virus thing was such a massive clusterf@#k its hard to even describe or see the full extent at present, wrapping cloth around children’s faces for hours and hours at a time for months maybe years on end, injecting them with this mRNA nonsense, damaging their hearts for life, if not worse, this was all utterly despicable and insane given the known facts.

And all that barely scratches the surface.

Some people see all that and they say “hey what the heck is going on? Why don’t we stick to the system of science and the system of laws and governance that have been serving us pretty well for several hundred years?”

Some other people hear that and for some reason respond by hurling epithets that don’t even make sense, have just become all-purpose verbal tar and feathering coinages. “Racist!” “Conspiracy theorist!”

So yeah, lot to unpack there, as they say.