Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud

ryrybang@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Amazon sold me a defective planer that had sawdust in it. Ibwas apparently the second to return it under warranty.

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    • RalphFurley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Amazon Warehouse I believe is open box and returns. It also gets confusing that marketplace sellers are mostly outside of Amazon’s control

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• Beacon@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah this stuff is why i never buy tech from Amazon, you never know if you're gonna get a counterfeit item

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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