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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by BoysenberryPi on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:13PM (#29587240)
Personally experienced this. I bookmarked a keyboard I was interested in purchasing in a month or so. When I went back it was a completely different item with the same reviews. Just today in fact, I was looking for an office chair seat cushion and found a very telling reddit comment from 3 years ago[1].

I know Amazon has a bulletproof return policy for the most part but I don't want to be hassled with returning everything. This just results in me just not using Amazon. You may be able to justify it for large purchases because of Amazon's return policy but for something as mundane as a can opener or seat cushion? Just shop elsewhere.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/a72co8/seat_cushi...

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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by anonnyj on Saturday December 18, 2021 @05:15PM (#29609095)
I received a different bike light than I ordered on Amazon (a literal Chinese knockoff) and submitted it for a replacement because it worked poorly. What I got back was another Chinese not-what-I-ordered knockoff, but it worked well... So I kept it.

Even though I came out happy it further inched me to my current position of "never buy from Amazon".

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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by BoysenberryPi on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:17PM (#29587260)
I try not to make a habit of so brazenly committing fraud.
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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by placer on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:44PM (#29587847)
You’re not on Reddit. We actually frown upon dishonest and unethical behavior here.
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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by ratsmack on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:23PM (#29587295)
I believe that is what most people would consider as being dishonesty and fraud.
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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:40PM (#29587419)
Two wrongs are two wrongs no matter which way you slice them.

Still, it’s an amusing comment. Amazon is complicit in aiding a third party to commit fraud.

Not all of us are just, up right, mature adults, of sound mind and strict morals.

Sending them back a steaming pile of dog shit is kind of amusing.

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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by estaseuropano on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:05AM (#29588469)
No, because some minimum wage worker has to unpack it. You don't tskr revenge on the people responsible, but on a poor sob that just wanted to earn a living.
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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:31AM (#29645906)
Why should they care, they get paid the same for packing / unpacking the fraud.
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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by jacob019 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:28PM (#29587338)
Don't be an asshole.
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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by AlexandrB on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:29PM (#29587748)
When a corporation does it it's not "being and asshole", it's "maximizing shareholder value" and is viewed by some as a good thing.
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Re:Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch r... by moneywoes on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:34PM (#29587367)
Wrong, they look at your life time value before accepting blind returns
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