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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by jeanvaljean2463 on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:58PM (#23945339)
I keep telling everyone I come across, STOP BUYING THINGS from Amazon. They know they have a huge problem and refuse to face it.

I was injured in 2010 by counterfeit toiletries and since have embargoed them completely. I'm happy to buy things from the manufacture and pay shipping, at least I know with a reasonable confidence that what I am getting is going to be the real thing.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by bduerst on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:09AM (#23946779)
There need to be better indexed shopify and big cartel sites. So many great online stores I've bought from use that as a web front.
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by thirdsun on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @07:21AM (#23974531)
I don't think that's a solution. While I really, really like Shopify as an ecommerce platform its usage alone tells you nothing about the legitimacy of the seller. Indexing all products on a certain platform just seems like another marketplace to me.
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by skinnymuch on Saturday July 25, 2020 @10:38AM (#23949508)
Is the new app Shopify launched like that or not good enough?
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by monocularvision on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:41PM (#23950528)
I have probably purchased tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise over a decade from Amazon and I can’t remember ever having a problem with receiving the wrong item or what I could tell was a counterfeit item.
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by Mo3 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:26PM (#23950405)
Out of curiosity, how did a toiletry injure you?
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by jeanvaljean2463 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:26PM (#23982184)
Dioxin tainted shaving soap... Bad times.

Had no idea it wasn't legit until I started having crazy dermal issues and saw a doctor.

Paid crazy amounts to have a sample tested to see if there was anything I could do to solve it.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by spoopyskelly on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:38PM (#23946193)
Stop buying things because a small percentage of them are broken. Makes sense.
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by myvoiceismypass on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:07PM (#23946330)
If a fucking toiletry fucks with me... are you even serious? You see nothing remotely wrong with this?
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:21AM (#23946811)
Stop buying things with high profit margin that are easily adulterated. Everything I buy passes through a filter: How profitable is it to fake this and do I care if it is?
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by ASalazarMX on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:21PM (#23946391)
If you can't reliably distinguish between genuine and scam vendors, yes, that makes sense.
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