Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amazon's brand

Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by bdrool on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:41PM (#13926528)

I've stopped using Amazon for:

  - Anything eaten
  - Anything that consumes or stores power (too much fire risk)
  - Anything worn on the body (even socks)

And now, based on this article, it appears I'll have to stop using them for books, as how can I be sure it's word-for-word the same?

What's left?

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by freyr on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:21PM (#13926822)

I can't believe they let this go on while trying to market groceries. There's no way I'd ever consider buying anything edible from them. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't even realize they're being sold counterfeit goods.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by blobbers on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:45PM (#13926987)

Doesn't look like they commingle things with expiration dates.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by blobbers on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:46PM (#13926567)

'fire risk': oh noes. . . I bought my searzall and fire extinguisher off amazon.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by miles on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:54PM (#13927037)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ&t=0m57s

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by wnevets on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:12PM (#13928224)

> fire extinguisher off amazon.

I literally just had mine delivered yesterday from amazon. Now I'm a little woried

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by quanticle on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:24AM (#13959644)

- Anything that consumes or stores power (too much fire risk)

So, where do you get, for example, external batteries for phones from? Amazon, eBay and Alibaba are pretty much the only online sources for these things, and I trust eBay and Alibaba even less than I trust Amazon.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by diminoten on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:52PM (#13927023)

I use Amazon for all of these things on a regular basis and have experienced zero problems, to provide a counterpoint to your anecdote.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by bdrool on Saturday March 25, 2017 @05:58PM (#13957744)

You may not have had a problem (or at least not realized it), but plenty of other people commenting on this article have, and there is now a new article at the top of HN that shows how big the fake / counterfeit problem is getting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13955981

Amazon is due for a reckoning. They've let this get completely out of control.

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