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Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by LaLaLand122 »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #204
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #201

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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.

FWIW a few years ago I found the my-country-Amazon is not another-country-Amazon. I had a problem with a phone after 6-12 months and they just sent me a replacement. A similar thing happened a couple of years later, I contacted support like at 1am from another European country and apparently I was sent to Amazon US support, which were useless... On the way back to the UK (still in the EU), I contacted support again (at a normal time) and this time they gave me a refund.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by 6sp »

gerdesj wrote: post #313
markdown wrote: post #311

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I'm sorry, I'm not American, nor do I live somewhere where there is anti-jewish sentiment. Is calling a Jew "Hassidic" derogatory?

Sorry mate - it sounds like I called you out too soon. Ideally, keep race or skin colour or religion etc out of any discussion. As a rule of thumb I try to avoid noting any difference beyond M:F and even then - advisadly. I don't think there is any reason to note Jew or Hasidic in your post. I have no idea whether a Jew might be offended by that because I would not even get to that point - no need to pontificate abou…

I agree completely on not mentioning if not relevant however I believe it was probably a substantial part of the story referenced.

Here’s a NYT article which might provide some context: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/nyregion/hasidic-jews-ama...

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by astrange »

0xfeba wrote: post #184
samstave wrote: post #107

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There was an amazing radio piece a while back about an outfit in NYC of a guy who had a very lucrative Aamazon copy-cat service: it was run by a family of Hassidic(sp?) Jews in (brooklyn?) -- and what they did was have a bunch of them scour Amazon for top rated items - then have their connections do quick knock-off and sell them. it was a fascinating story... Ill see if I can find it. They were on the early side of t…

Amazon itself does that with "Amazon's Choice" brand or whatever. They use the stats of top selling items, clone it for cheap, and take all the sales. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-i...

That’s no different from store brands at grocery stores. (And it’s AmazonBasics/Solimo.)

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Post by astrange »

Analemma_ wrote: post #111
AlexandrB wrote: post #51

The ending is rather unexpected: > despite all of this, i still mostly love Amazon as a customer. it played a big role in getting my e-commerce business off of the ground and i'm grateful for that. "It's a flea market full of cheap (and sometimes dangerous) junk, but I still love it!"

It's a hostage situation. This is how you can tell Amazon is a dangerous monopoly: when even the people they fuck over have no choice but to smile and say, "But we still love 'em!"

Amazon isn’t a monopoly, its competitors just don’t have good shipping or return policies.

I got an empty box shipped to me instead of an SSD last week and got an instant refund for it.

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Post by astrange »

cheald wrote: post #208

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.

I bought a bunch of underwear from a nonsense brand name on Amazon once and it actually turned out to be both high quality and have the nonsense brand name printed in big letters on the elastic bands.

So some of them are proud of it.

(EYUSHIJIA, which sounds Chinese but doesn’t mean anything according to the trademark application.)

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Post by orangepurple »

mindslight wrote: post #240
fmajid wrote: post #192

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It’s AliExpress with 2 day shipping for people with poor impulse control. The “free shipping” that costs 900%…

I've got good impulse control and planning. Still, I needed some TNC connectors for a surveying project and didn't want to wait the month for Aliexpress/eBayDirect to show up, so I ordered them off Amazon which had the best compromise of price vs shipping time. Of course I did a visual quality check when they showed up, as required for all direct Chineseum. It's not surprising this niche has developed. What's surpris…

Amazon can launch a new brand to distance themselves from the current form once they have firmly established themselves as a local cache of Aliexpress wares with fast shipping. It will be like an upmarket shopping mall located right next to a giant bazaar.

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Post by 29athrowaway »

spicymaki wrote: post #188

The scam is enormously profitable for Amazon and the Chinese black hats. You can tell it is really profitable because Amazon will compensate you for up to $1000 for damages caused by this junk. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58163915 I believe that Amazon probably could not turn the screws on these companies even if it wanted to. It would be a massive loss to their revenue and share holders would revolt. It would…

If shit goes south for AAAAA1 they close it and then start doing business as AAAAA2.

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Post by throwaway5959 »

supernova87a wrote: post #238

It's like we're repeating an old era of the early United States when every guy on a street corner would be copying reputable wares and selling them without regulation, patent protections, brand / trademark protections, and people were hawking quack snake oil under any name. I'm all for reducing useless regulation, but sometimes you understand where it originally came from as a legitimate need.

I wish it didn’t take this much crap being sold to make you figure this out.

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Post by adaml_623 »

scottydelta wrote: post #372

I have a friend who works as a category manager at Amazon global and she gets frequent offers from shady people for "mutually beneficial partnership". Even the suspensions don't have alot of affect for these shady sellers. I have worked with a company that provides listing services on Amazon in the past. The owner once casually mentioned how they help these companies get out of suspensions for long enough to withdraw…

So is your friend contacted through LinkedIn or something similar? Because it would be terrible if these shady sellers bribed someone who had just set there company to Amazon but didn't really work there ...
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