Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

Re:Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box ... by Natsu on Sunday May 30, 2021 @12:54PM (#27334569)

Yeah, but I can hardly blame non-technical people who don't know the prices of things and who haven't heard about the cheats that off-brand memory cards can pull. I mean, many of them advertise to the computer that they are the listed size. But... when you fill them up, it becomes clear that's a lie.

I wish Amazon could randomly test and delist some of those products or whatever. Or maybe do some random testing before listing them for sale, it's not some obscure scam after all.

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Re:Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box ... by WalterBright on Sunday May 30, 2021 @04:49PM (#27336595)

Of course Amazon needs to do better. But the point remains - to-good-to-be-true prices should always arouse suspicions, as they are a tell for scams.

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Re:Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box ... by Natsu on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:02PM (#27337302)

Oh, I definitely look for those as well, but I'm just saying this is often difficult because people don't know what brands are trustworthy or what a "too good to be true" price is in the first place.

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Re:Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box ... by WalterBright on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:10PM (#27337871)

When searching for USB sticks, and there are two clusters of prices, one of which is 20% of the other, you don't have to know much to be skeptical.

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