Re:Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program n...
by Vespasian on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:27AM
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Maybe Amazon Germany is different or I've been extremely lucky so far because I've never received a fake (as far as I can tell).
I wonder whether fakes are more prevalent in some product categories than in others.
Re:Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program n...
by sgerenser on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:28AM
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Fakes are definitely more prevalent in certain categories, for sure. Batteries, power adapters, flash drives and SD cards are probably the biggest off the top of my head. Probably because they’re relatively simple devices that are easy to manufacture to a lower quality standard than the genuine item and will usually at least superficially appear to work when received by the average buyer.
For whatever reason, I have noticed this getting dramatically worse over the past couple of years. Almost all "5-star" reviewed products are filled with top reviews of 1-star reporting fake products. And because of Amazon's overly generous return policy, there's a lot of used products sold as well.
Buying off of Amazon feels like there's a high probability you'll get a used or counterfeit/fake product or both.
I have been reducing what I buy on Amazon because I just don't trust it.