Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

Re:Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW by samstave on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:15PM (#32197210)

I KNEW people would ask this ; it was a major aspect of the story for some reason. They kept making reference to how these "ultra orthodox jews in brooklyn" were doing some revolutionary marketing/profiteering on the interenet/amazon specifically and how they were making a fortune doing so...

It was _fundamental_ to whomever wrote the piece...

So I mentioned it here.

Sorry I failed your "anti-semetic triggers" - FFS.

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Re:Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW by Sebb767 on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:22PM (#32197265)

Well, to be fair, if "these scammers are ultra orthodox Jews" was central to the piece "for some reason", the author might've been a tad on the antisemitic side. At least your (in this context overstated and seemingly unnecessary) mention of their religion makes it sound like it.

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Re:Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW by lelanthran on Saturday July 23, 2022 @03:34AM (#32201228)

>At least your (in this context overstated and seemingly unnecessary) mention of their religion makes it sound like it.

I interpreted the comment differently to you. To me, it appeared that the GP was merely trying to give all the details he remembered from the story. Each additional detail helps when trying to find a decade(s) old story on google or similar.

When reporting descriptions of people, the more detail, the better. Withholding things like race, religion, etc in an effort to be more PC results in a less accurate description.

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Re:Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW by trasz on Friday July 22, 2022 @06:15PM (#32197755)

He specifically mentioned Brooklyn though, so to me that sounds more like starting the story with a general feeling of the place.

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Re:Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW by samstave on Friday July 22, 2022 @06:41PM (#32197962)

Basically! this was the take-away

SET THE SCENE: "What you may think of sleepy hassidic brooklyn as a religious enclave -check out these guys with curls making a killing on amazon knock-offs.!"

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Re:Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW by pishpash on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:18AM (#32200314)

I am pretty sure I remember the article was about Adorama and B&H selling gray-market import photography goods over mail order and having racist practices or something, not about selling on Amazon.

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Re:Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW by vore on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:14PM (#32199563)

If you failed to clarify in your original post, it really does look like it's not material to the story: we don't have the context so reasonably people are going to ask why you even brought it up. No need to get so indignant about it.

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