Re:Amazon Ruined Online Shopping
by savanaly on Sunday January 20, 2019 @03:29PM
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Board games are completely overrun you say? But I buy at least a half dozen big board games per year from Amazon and have never had a problem.
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Here a couple examples I came across recently of games which have multiple recent reviews, on the first page of reviews, that either outright state they received a counterfeit or describe quality control issues that almost certainly describe a counterfeit:
Catan https://smile.amazon.com/Catan-Studios-cantan2017/dp/B00U26V...
Splendor https://smile.amazon.com/Asmodee-SPL01-Splendor/dp/B00IZEUFI...
Ticket to Ride https://smile.amazon.com/Days-Wonder-DO7201-Ticket-Ride/dp/0...
Ticket to Ride: Europe https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000809OAO/
7 Wonders https://smile.amazon.com/Asmodee-5511788-7-Wonders/dp/B0043K...
Azul https://smile.amazon.com/Plan-Games-Azul-Board-Game/dp/B077M...
They're not hard to find -- popular games from smaller publishers with high prices but relatively simple (cardboard/plastic) components seem to be what counterfeiters target.
I haven't had a problem either, but Asmodee did make a big stink about this last year: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/39296/icv2-interview-asm...
What an interview. The whole time, there's this strong subtext that Amazon is the primary vector here, but they never come out and say it -- and dance around the issue of what corrective legislation would actually look like -- because they're evidently afraid of getting on its shit list, despite the massive harm its negligence is enabling.
Re:Amazon Ruined Online Shopping
by jay_kyburz on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:06PM
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Would you even know if they are good quality?