Amazon damaged their brand name once they started acting like a third-party marketplace. Now it’s basically almost like ebay.
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I ordered four m.2 chips for a raid and one of them was not like the others. Clearly a diff brand chip with a sticker transferred to it. Had I not bought multiple chips I might not have caught on.
Fuck amazon for anything of value. I now use it only for things like books and cat litter.
bob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Except worse because they mix inventory so it’s easier for sellers to get away with scams
plzExplainNdetail@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
For books try https://m.alibris.com/
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I don’t buy books from them any longer because their packaging is so poor that most of the time books arrive to me damaged from being tossed into a too large box for shipping.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Ha! The put my copy of It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism in a huge box with a 40lbs box of cat litter. The book got compressed like an accordion.
flustered@lemmy.world 1 year ago
not suprising, amazon is just aliexpress but with 1-2 day shipping.
severien@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Regarding that … I recently bought a hefty biography on Oppenheimer - should have had more than 500 pages, great reviews. What arrived was a 50-page small format booklet. Not even books are a “safe buy” on Amazon.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Wow. I thought you were heading towards it being self-published with fake accreditation or something. Did not expect this.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did they have the same ISBN?
severien@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I didn’t check. I sent it right back. It looks like it was some bait and switch scheme, when I received the book I checked the amazon page and there were many other new complaints about this exact thing.