Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor

Re:Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, say... by AlexandrB on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:27AM (#14847947)

It's not his job to fix Amazon's fraud issues. Amazon has billions of dollars at its disposal, it should invest some in quality control.

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Re:Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, say... by ikurei on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:49AM (#14863621)

Of course it isn't his job. As it isn't his job to help an old blind woman to cross the street.

I am not intending to emit a moral judgement, just to point out that he was sufficiently outraged to complain about it and to use such strong vocabulary as "fraud", and yet he acquiesced.

Helping (a little bit) to fix the problem wouldn't have been that much of an inconvenience, and if we customers were more like that this kind of behaviour wouldn't be possible, or at least harder.

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Re:Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, say... by reaperducer on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:32PM (#14850553)

Your statement assumes that Amazon isn't investing anything in quality control. If you have evidence of this, please post it. Otherwise, you're just a troll.

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Re:Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, say... by neverminder on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:14PM (#14850954)

I could probably write a script in 5 minutes that would scan the database and pull the products with 5 star only reviews like this one. No matter how good a product is somebody will always be unhappy with it because people are people and that's normal. We can't afford to be that naive to believe in a 5 star only product because that is the actual trolling.

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Re:Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, say... by mikestew on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:46PM (#14851245)

No matter how good a product is somebody will always be unhappy with it

If nothing else, someone almost without fail will leave a one-star review that has nothing to do with the item itself. "Package was damaged, one star." "UPS left it in the rain..." If Jesus asked for reviews at Mount Olive (the loaves and fishes thing), there'd be a one-star review somewhere, "fish was a little dry, and I don't like sourdough bread. Better miracles at Joe's House of Wonder, one star." (Though I guess even in reality he got one star from the Pharisees: "shouldn't be doing miracles on Sabbath; one star.") Nothing and nobody, even Jesus, gets nothing but five star reviews.

IOW, your suggestion would be as good as anything Amazon has right now.

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Re:Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, say... by Sleeep on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:31PM (#14858247)

My own two eyes?

At least ~30%+ of Amazon's products are cheap Chinese garbage resold from Albiaba under 10+ different "brands." (private label) There's are also tons of very obvious fake and counterfeit products that could be spotted with a simple human review of new listings.

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