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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by obmelvin on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:38PM (#23941540)
>The victim isn't Amazon, it's the next customer who buys the returned product--which wasn't even necessarily labeled as such.

Not saying that I'd want this to happen to me, but assuming Amazon made it right I'd say that I was just inconvenienced and they were the victim.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by TAForObvReasons on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:48PM (#23941665)
You're the victim if you didn't realize it was the wrong item within the return period, which is a lot more common especially among people who aren't as intimately familiar with the technical details

Plenty of people have been scammed on microSD cards, a common target for this fraud, because they didn't know how to properly test them and never pushed the capacity until after the return period.

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