An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Programs

Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by lsaferite on Friday January 19, 2018 @09:24AM (#16186371)

Every time I see a comment like this I think to myself we must either be using a different Amazon or just buying totally different categories of items. I buy lots of things from Amazon. I probably get a package from them at least twice a week (I hate going to stores). In all that time I've never gotten something that was straight up garbage. So how is it so many vocal people are getting a significantly different experience?

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Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by ghaff on Friday January 19, 2018 @10:31AM (#16186926)

I have the same experience. I tend to try to buy stuff that Amazon sells directly and I regularly pay a bit more for items that seem to have better reviews or, at least, less reviews that give me pause. And I do buy a fair bit of electronics and so forth. I wonder how many of the people who seem to have such bad experiences buy solely on price even when the price seems too good to be true.

Case in point. I just bought a couple of Samsung Qi wireless chargers. There were certainly cheaper ones listed but this one won Wirecutter recommendation so it's what I got. Are there counterfeits? Probably. But they probably aren't packaged like the legit item.

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Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by philjohn on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:05PM (#16190275)

That won't help you, Amazon comingles their "sold by amazon" stock with "fulfilled by amazon" stock.

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Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by ghaff on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:37PM (#16190956)

I don't doubt it happens but I've never had a problem.

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Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by lsaferite on Saturday January 20, 2018 @12:57PM (#16194420)

Do you have proof of that?

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Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by cthalupa on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:16PM (#16190375)

My household probably gets 4-5 packages from Amazon a week. Over the past half decade, I've received maybe 2 obviously counterfeit products.

If I've gotten anything else that was counterfeit, it was a good enough reproduction for me not to notice.

But some people might be buying items exclusively in categories where the rate is higher? I don't know. I buy a lot of electronics and electronic accessories off of Amazon, and that seems to be what others complain about being bad.

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Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by outworlder on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:50PM (#16189676)

You are just buying different products.

I was looking for a Mophie battery case for the iPhone SE. Go there now and look. You’ll find a bunch of cases “by Mophie”, which are all counterfeits, no exceptions. Mophie doesn’t sell on Amazon.

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Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by cthalupa on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:14PM (#16190357)

There are Amazon (Not FBA) listings for Morphie products.

Are you saying that Amazon themselves bought and stocked counterfeit Morphie products?

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Re:An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Pr... by JavaOffScript on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:55PM (#16189729)

Amazon is great for common household items that I don't want to make a trip to the store for (cleaning supplies, loofahs, notebooks, pens and paper, etc.). If I want to buy, for example, a Samsung or Apple phone charger, I'm going to buy it from the manufacturer's website.

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