Re:I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
by mikeash on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:03PM
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Amazon is getting hit with a chargeback on this one, and I see a lot of comments critical of Amazon on here. And this is a tech-savvy crowd. Most Amazon customers probably don't pay enough attention to Amazon to understand the difference between "Sold by Amazon" and "Fulfilled by Amazon" and straight third-party sellers. When it goes wrong, people will blame the one entity they actually interacted with: Amazon.
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Re:I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
by koala_man on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:30PM
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I order from Amazon exactly because I don't have to deal with this bullshit.
If I was willing to carefully scrutinize sellers, comb through intentionally misleading ads, build a working knowledge of common scams, and keep all records for the occasional resolution process, I would use eBay or Craigslist.
I would much rather switch to ordering from Best Buy and Target than adapt to this kind of adversarial buyer beware model.
Re:I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
by snowwrestler on Friday August 11, 2017 @07:39PM
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The point of this thread is that if you are ordered from Amazon, you actually might have to deal with this bullshit. Selecting a seller requires as much care as eBay at this point. It's not what it was.