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Re:The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding by Groxx on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:08PM (#30173184)
Amazon's sprinting decline into absurdly gamed reviews and scam copycat products really doesn't support that quote.
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Re:The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding by bb88 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:13AM (#30174399)
If they don't measure it, does it exist?

I'm not disagreeing here, but it could be that the fraud is a drop in the bucket of Amazon revenue. And just trying to get metrics on it, may cost more than what Amazon benefits from it.

I tonight bought a 3d printer hotend from the source company, because I couldn't be sure the product I order from Amazon would be genuine.

It's pretty bad when the products being sold on Amazon are labeled "Genuine assembled E3D V6 Hotend", when if Amazon gave a shit, it would only need to say "Assembled E3D V6 hotend."

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