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Re:Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices by revelation on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @06:18AM (#12035449)
Some of these travel adapters are outright deadly. As in "pop out a second set of plugs while plugged in" deadly.

They are even shipped by Amazon. These products should never enter any western market. If a kid electrocutes himself thats going to be very bad news for Amazon.

Re:Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices by AJ007 on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @10:03AM (#12036467)
My friend's wife told him to order a cheap barbell from Amazon. I pointed out that reviews said it have broken in half during use. They bought it, and it broke in half on the first use.

Based on the kind of crazy dangerous shit that ends up on Amazon and stays on Amazon, I wonder what kinds of things they are catching and blocking from being sold?

The number of verticals of items I won't buy off Amazon has increased. Between spending a lot of time looking at the search results, ordering something that sucks, sometimes its easier, faster, and cheaper to go to Target.