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chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.

First was a laptop that wouldn’t start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.

Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I’d ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.

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indyradio@kafeneio.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@chiliedogg @themachinestops
Amazon will consistently facilitate fraud. I had sworn I would not order from them, but it seemed there was an exceptional deal on a certain type of tortilla.
There were supposed to be 12 bags of tortillas, but there were only 10.
I read there guidelines, and there is absolutely no recourse for something like this. I opened the box, now it's mine.
I had decided quite firmly I wouldn't deal with them, and it was a serious mistake when I did.
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink
  
  Drivers urinating in bottles has been reported in the past, but what wasn’t known is that some claim they also get penalized for having those urine-filled bottles in their truck when they return to the warehouse.
  
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  To avoid penalties, they end up discarding the bottles by the side of the road. Butler searches the roadsides near Amazon warehouses from Coventry to New York to Los Angeles and more often than not strikes liquid gold.
  
  From there, it’s laughably straightforward for Butler to get Release listed for sale on Amazon, with very few checks and balances in place to ensure the product he’s selling is safe and legal. “Releasing the drink was surprisingly easy,” Butler told WIRED. “I thought that the food and drinks licensing would stop me from listing it, so I started it out in this Refillable Pump Dispenser category. Then the algorithm moved it into drinks.”
  
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  - isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Isn’t that a plot in Moral Orel?
    
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  - indyradio@kafeneio.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    @UnderpantsWeevil
    they need to be shut down
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    UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Nationalized and folded into the USPS. Idk about shutting down the biggest commercial retailer in the world.
    
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- I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  So what exactly did you do to piss off the Amazon Returns department? Because from my experience, they are the most lenient company when it comes to returns/refunds. I’ve had stuff arrive broken, or scuffed up, or it was the wrong item, or I just plain didn’t like a product and every time I’ve been able to submit a return without having to interact with a single person.
  
  I feel like you either have to be lying about your experience, didn’t even try to return it, or did something that got your account flagged.
  
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- QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No judgement…but why would you buy 10 bags of tortillas from Amazon?
  
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  - indyradio@kafeneio.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    @QuandaleDingle
    I paid for 12. and it was supposed to be a good deal. why do you ask?
    d'Oh
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    QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m just curious. You probably go into a hispanic food store and get them for a similar price, or better. And you know what you’re getting then. shrug Sucks that happened, though. :(
    
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Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, if it’s not made by Amazon and sold by them, I typically won’t buy it. All the other stuff is just marked up stuff from AliExpress and temu.

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- bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They don’t make anything. You’re buying marked up stuff from AliExpress and temu that has an “Amazon basics” sticker on it.
  
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  - Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I get that, but imo they do vet them and make sure it’s not absolute crap.
    
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