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Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #23
metalliqaz wrote: post #5

Amazon "... is turning their marketplace into a flea market of total junk." Man if this isn't the dead-on honest truth. Amazon is so garbage now that Walmart.com is a trusted supplier by comparison. I can't believe Amazon gets away with the crap they do. They so obviously turn a blind eye to constant, serious anti-consumer crap from Chinese sellers. Why? And why doesn't the FTC or any other department do anything?

Just recently Amazon allowed me to buy a kindle book for my specific kindle device, which turned out to not be supported. But they still allowed me to purchase and deliver it to this kindle. Only once I went to the device to sync it did I learn that it was incompatible. I was not allowed a refund. The reasonable behaviour would of course be to give a pop-up like "hey, you're trying to buy a book that doesn't work for…

All the books I’ve bought for my kindle have a “bought by mistake? Press here” thing which instantly removes and refunds it.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by corrral »

Phrodo_00 wrote: post #141
bmitc wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too have stopped buying on Amazon. I did so a while back after being concerned about counterfeits, safety issues, etc. I had this talk with my wife not too long ago about a mirror she ordered from Amazon, clearly made in China by a no-brand manufacturer. We discussed about how, yes, it looks nice, but we have no idea what quality of glass they used. So if it falls and shatters, it could be very dangerous. It also c…

This doesn't sound like an Amazon issue though, but an issue with that specific product. You're the one who chose to purchase it. You would likely have the same experience with that product in other marketplaces like EBay, Walmart or Alibaba.

If a marketplace lets itself get so dodgy that this kind of thing's normal, that's absolutely the marketplace's fault.

There's a big, shady flea market in a bad part of my city. Barbed-wire protecting the roof. Heavy bars on all the windows. Armed guards. Half or more of the vendors are plainly fences, or have a close relationship with one or more. Tons of stuff that "fell of the back of the truck". Entire booths carrying counterfeits of luxury goods, sold under the luxury brand name. It's kinda crazy it's allowed to exist.

You don't go there with the same expectations you do when you go to Wal-Mart or Costco.

Amazon tries to look like, and even started out as, a place like Wal-Mart or Costco. Now they're the "how have the cops not shut this place down?" shady flea market. It's 100% their fault that they're like that, and to the degree that they present themselves as anything else, that's deception.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by maxerickson »

Phrodo_00 wrote: post #141
bmitc wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too have stopped buying on Amazon. I did so a while back after being concerned about counterfeits, safety issues, etc. I had this talk with my wife not too long ago about a mirror she ordered from Amazon, clearly made in China by a no-brand manufacturer. We discussed about how, yes, it looks nice, but we have no idea what quality of glass they used. So if it falls and shatters, it could be very dangerous. It also c…

This doesn't sound like an Amazon issue though, but an issue with that specific product. You're the one who chose to purchase it. You would likely have the same experience with that product in other marketplaces like EBay, Walmart or Alibaba.

It's easy to not buy from other seller's on the marketplace.

Did Amazon stop commingling fulfillment inventory? That's where I worry about getting burned.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #201
mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just recently Amazon allowed me to buy a kindle book for my specific kindle device, which turned out to not be supported. But they still allowed me to purchase and deliver it to this kindle. Only once I went to the device to sync it did I learn that it was incompatible. I was not allowed a refund. The reasonable behaviour would of course be to give a pop-up like "hey, you're trying to buy a book that doesn't work for…

All the books I’ve bought for my kindle have a “bought by mistake? Press here” thing which instantly removes and refunds it.

I've never seen anything like that. I was able to request a refund, and I did, but it was denied. I then contacted support with no luck there either. Maybe you have consumer protections I don't in your country?

Nevertheless, why on earth would it allow the purchase to happen when it was set to deliver to a specific unsupported kindle, my only one? It just makes no sense other than as a scam.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by bmitc »

madaxe_again wrote: post #187
bmitc wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too have stopped buying on Amazon. I did so a while back after being concerned about counterfeits, safety issues, etc. I had this talk with my wife not too long ago about a mirror she ordered from Amazon, clearly made in China by a no-brand manufacturer. We discussed about how, yes, it looks nice, but we have no idea what quality of glass they used. So if it falls and shatters, it could be very dangerous. It also c…

The example given of silicone spatulas could be particularly egregious - are they even RoHS or REACH compliant? They could be chock full of SVHCs that you serve to your family every supper. I might send some of our Amazon stuff for testing for phthalates and find out.

I have definitely made it a rule that we don't purchase products that touch food from Amazon. I honestly have no idea how the products there are passing regulations. Are regulations even enforced anymore?

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by [deleted] »

protastus wrote: post #105

I no longer have the patience to navigate Amazon's terrible search results and have lost trust in the quality of their inventory. Nowadays I only order from Amazon if the order is a time critical item that only they can deliver on time for a reasonable price. That's less than 5% of my purchases in dollar amount. I've been a customer since 1997. Amazon has impressed me with their ability to play the long game, and I d…

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Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by cheald »

I've gotten to the point that if it's a nonsense all-caps name or has an item description in broken English, I just don't bother. It's gonna be trash. It'll fail in 3 weeks, there will be no way to get it returned or repaired, the company won't exist, and the product listing will be gone next time you come back to it.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by structural »

cycomanic wrote: post #166
ant6n wrote: post #49

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The problem I’m having in Germany ist that only Amazon reliable delivers to my door, usually next day. Every other store ships with DHL, which after several days pretends that they ring you, when they don’t, and then u can go pick it up at the DHL store a day later. That’s their moat.

I always wonder what products are so important that they need to be delivered next day? The few times I realised I need something urgently it typically means today and even next day delivery is not enough, so I go to a store and possibly pay a slightly higher price. For everything else it doesn't really matter if it is one or 5 days. Is the next day delivery really necessary or does it just appeal to our impulse of n…

For many people, going to a store the same day is completely impossible (not having a store within reasonable distance that stocks any similar product).

This is not just rural areas, either: even in major cities items can be delivered faster than the time it would take to find a store that carried the item, go to the store, get it, and come home again. It's really only suburban areas with a high density of big-box retail that even have the option to "go out and get something" immediately.

Amusingly, it's also only in these suburban areas where next day delivery even exists to compete. As an anecdote, living in the downtown of a major American city (population > 1million), the average Amazon delivery time is roughly 3 days, and last mile deliveries are all delegated to the USPS which adds significant time.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by cheald »

alangibson wrote: post #112

I wonder if theres a business idea in here. Set up a site that looks better than Amazon (not hard) and only list reputable listings on Amazon. Collect affiliate revenue. Basically just filter out the crap and profit

FakeSpot kind of does this. Their browser extension can hide Amazon listings directly on Amazon which fall below a certain trustworthiness threshold.
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