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Re:Fake Goods Sold by AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Walmart and ... by shadowgovt on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:03AM (#22384105)
> It should be reasonable for me to assume buying something there is safe.

The only thing we should ever assume is that a company has policies and will honor those policies as required by law.

Here's Amazon's policy on guarantee. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... There is no mention of safety.

Here's Amazon's policy on safety. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... There is no guarantee associated with it.

They are a trillion-dollar company, but what we're observing is that the market isn't hyper-thirsty for safety guarantees and is willing to accept their current climate for service convenience. Other stores will let you make a different safety-convenience tradeoff.

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