Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud

Re:Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands fo... by bb88 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @05:37AM (#28582958)

I don't really buy large or expensive things on Amazon, pretty much for that reason, and then maybe getting stuck with the bad equipment because Amazon won't return it.

This was a recent article about a couple buying a $7k camera and getting an empty box. https://petapixel.com/2021/05/26/couple-buys-7000-camera-fro...

This guy bought an expensive camera from Amazon, got rocks, returned it and then got bricks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXPnOq-XJg8&t=0s

I have no problem buying $5/$10/$100 items. But for a $3k camera, no, not Amazon.

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Re:Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands fo... by thaumasiotes on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:11PM (#28589779)

> This was a recent article about a couple buying a $7k camera and getting an empty box.

> This guy bought an expensive camera from Amazon, got rocks, returned it and then got bricks.

There's apparently a whole genre of "ordered iPhone, received iPhone box with Play-Doh inside instead of the iPhone" complaints.

The theory I've seen is that this is a scam by the purchaser against Amazon's return policy, not a scam by vendors on Amazon against customers. That second option doesn't work, because the customer just gets refunded.

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