Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund

Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by ghostpepper on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:57PM (#23945333)

Is there another good place to get out-of-print books? Or are you saying that for current books, a brick-and-mortar store is best, and for out-of-print, rolling the dice with Amazon is better than nothing?

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by xzel on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:53PM (#23945988)

I'd recommend abebooks.com. Everything I've received has been in great shape and since it is media mail shipping is free or at most a dollar (for normal sized books that it, I haven't bought text books).

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by timsneath on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:15PM (#23946082)

I don't know if you realize, but abebooks are a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon: https://www.abebooks.com/about -- so this is like protesting Facebook by setting up an Instagram account.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by sneeze-slayer on Friday July 24, 2020 @11:07PM (#23946578)

Wow thanks for that! I didn't know and was happily using them for some time now.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by AareyBaba on Friday July 24, 2020 @07:28PM (#23945530)

Try Powells https://www.powells.com/

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by wrp on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:32PM (#23946155)

Use www.bookfinder4u.com and evaluate sellers case-by-case.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by pkaye on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:03PM (#23945714)

I have used addall.com in the past. Its a meta search of all the major online book stores.

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