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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by thefourthchime on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:48PM (#27113679)
Yeah, recently I bought a knife from bladehq because I was worried about getting a knockoff off Amazon.

Two weeks later I got an email from bladehq that they had been exploited and my credit card was now known to hackers.

So, fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t.

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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by pottertheotter on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:58PM (#27113754)
I've been using the pay with PayPal option whenever a site has it for this reason.
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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by ryanianian on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @08:45AM (#27117399)
PayPal will not help you if you inadvertently buy a scam product.

I bought a TV light strip doodad for $20. What arrived was an empty box. It shipped from the US, but they wanted me to ship it back to China. PayPal could not have cared less. They agreed I needed to send it back to China. I escalated very far up their chain. Nothing.

Apparently this is a common scam and PayPal does zero to help.

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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by pottertheotter on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:08PM (#27122866)
I use my credit card with PayPal purchases, so I think a chargeback would cover that.
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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by abqio on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:51PM (#27113702)
Paypal, Privacy.com, and Blur can solve that problem. I'm sure there are others.
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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by brink on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:54PM (#27113729)
That's like getting food poisoning when you go out to eat, so you just assume all restaurants will give you food poisoning.
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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by andyana on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:53PM (#27114056)
Not even food poisoning, more like your car for broken into, but nothing was stolen. The meal was fantastic, however.
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