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Re:Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for dur... by gallamine on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @10:43AM (#24708763)
I've taken to running all my amazon purchases through fakespot dot com first. It's highly discouraging.
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Re:Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for dur... by OJFord on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @04:52PM (#24712579)
> Amazon automatically provides you with the cheapest version of the product you’re looking at,

Nice; thanks, Amazon.

> even if it’s potentially fake.

Yikes! Hope I don't get one of those!

> Most of the time you cannot even return these items!

That's just rubbish though, Amazon returns are so easy, if the price is only marginally lower elsewhere I'll order from Amazon just because - if necessary - returning is easy, third party or not.

I'm not sure if I get the point of it, if I can't tell if the product's a 'fake', aren't I happy? If I can (and I'm not happy with it anyway) I'll just send it back?

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Re:Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for dur... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @10:55AM (#24708899)
They have a chrome extension FYI that shows their data/status on a product page on Amazon.
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