Comment on Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon

• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, just bought a new pixel directly from the Google store on Amazon. They shipped me a refurbished one that was carrier locked to Verizon. It’s been 3 weeks since I shipped it back and they still haven’t checked it in n for a refund. Prob never buying anything worth more 200 bucks from them again.

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  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bet it wasn’t google, it was something ‘xingwang productions’ calling themselves google.

    Raspberry pi had loads of these during the shortage (still does, I think)… the listing has ‘Raspberry Pi model 4B’ and ‘Visit the raspberry pi store’ and ‘#1 best seller’ and you dig a little and find it’s a reseller who’s shifting at a markup.

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    • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem is Amazon puts everything with the same SKU in the same bin. So your “xingwang productions” Pixel phones are in the same place as the official “Google Store” stuff.

      I basically stopped buying on Amazon unless there’s no other way to get what I want (or it doesn’t matter that much) because of this. Definitely not touching any food, skin cream, etc from there or expensive electronics.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    See, this is weird. Normally I get a refund the moment I drop it off at UPS/Kohls/USPS. They don’t even wait for the item to actually reach their warehouse most of the time. This includes a $4k laptop with a DOA thunderbolt port.

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That had been my prior experience as well. I’ve bought and returned several more expensive items in the past, but I think they’ve made some recent changes to their return policy. Now they’re not returning funds for expensive items until they’ve checked it in.

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    • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My experience with returning stuff has been pretty good also, although I don’t doubt some people have had bad experiences.

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• PlantJam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen so many Amazon drop ship listings on ebay. They don’t even use different pictures.

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just got straight to the source on Ali for all my chinesium stuff, although if you don’t want to wade through the express it can be a chore. And express vendors can be as expensive as Amazon.

  Ebays not bad, especially for used gizmos. And anything important I just get it from a legitimate retailer.

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• Landmammals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It really is. On eBay the seller has a rating. On Amazon the item has a rating. You’re just sort of randomly buying the thing you want and hope to get a good seller.

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