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