Yeah this stuff is why i never buy tech from Amazon, you never know if you're gonna get a counterfeit item
ryrybang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Buying from a reputable operation spares you from a lot of this. Amazon is all hot garbage across the board.
Beacon@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Recommendations?
Newegg has been shit for a decade now (new owners fucked it to hell) and I don’t have a Microcenter closer than a 2-hour drive.
Beacon@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Anywhere that has an actual supply chain instead of website that's just a front for individual resellers. Places like best buy, or if you could get shipped from microcenter.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
How did Newegg survive the outing from Gamers Nexus?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Supporting giant evil DOES sometimes get you free stuff… I know folks who have accidentally been shipped multiple of what they’re ordering (in two cases, the items were quite expensive) and when they’ve brought it up, they were told to keep the extras.
Maybe not worth the evil, but hey, free stuff is cool.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Pretty much any of the retailers have this happen. They’re isn’t anything special about ordering from a different site or even picking it up ina brick and mortar store.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It wasn’t technology, but i ordered a new mad lib style book for my kid from Amazon. The book arrived with cellophane around it and a nice label that clearly said new. Once opened, it was very obvious the book was used, since the last kid had already filled out the whole damn thing including his name and address inside the cover.
I’m not mad at the kid, although his parents are probably bad people for returning the book at that point. I am livid that Amazon didn’t flip to any random page in the book too determine if the book was used or not.
Fuck Amazon.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Iirc correctly, Amazon actually doesn’t resell their returns. At least not through their storefront.
They have “return auctions” where returns are put onto a pallet and then people bid on them to purchase. Apparently this is cheaper than having a workflow for their returns, checking them to make sure they are resellable, and then stocking them back into their warehouse.
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
So are all these people who say they are buying from Amazon actually buying from 3rd party sellers on Amazon? I’m always confused by these stories with used items being delivered.
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The principal issue is this, Amazon commingles stock. This means that there is one box for a particular SKU. If a seller sends product to Amazon for fulfillment it gets dumped into the bin with everyone else’s.
This means that if a seller sends counterfeit or poor products to Amazon it gets mixed in with the real ones from other sellers or Amazon’s own stock. This causes major problems as you can see.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Its all the same, you search for something on Amazon, find it, and buy. Not obvious if it is a 3rd party seller or no. It feels like all the same thing.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Many years ago it used to be very obvious when you were buying from Amazon vs 3rd party sellers. Today the only difference is a small bit of text that says “Shipped and sold by Amazon”. The fact that you can even get prime shipping on items from third party sellers makes it so that people often don’t realize.
Bunitonito@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I bought a 3 pack of Corsair LL120 RGB case fans directly from Amazon.com (as the seller) before and got a 3 pack of someone’s old case fans instead (the old swapperoo). So Amazon told me to just keep them after I sent them many photos of the box and the LPN sticker on it, and they sent me another. Take a guess what was in that box? Yup, more swapperoos. But this was back in 2016-2017 so they may have changed up how they handle returns since then, or how they isolate their own products from 3rd party ‘FBA’ sellers
titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You don’t know that Amazon is a marketplace? So is Walmart and Target. Com for example. You can open a store on any of these platforms and sell while using them for advertisement, warehousing, and shipping. You are responsible for fees and sales etc, but they handle everything else. Yes, they have their own products as well, but most their sales come from vendors on their platform.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t care if it was actually a store front. I blame Amazon for not doing oversight of its supply chain. So, it’s their fault, or it’s their fault.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Amazon sold me a defective planer that had sawdust in it. Ibwas apparently the second to return it under warranty.
RalphFurley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Amazon Warehouse I believe is open box and returns. It also gets confusing that marketplace sellers are mostly outside of Amazon’s control
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Actually that cellophane was brand new, as the label indicated.