Wow. Read this (as a regular Amazon user) and thought “no way it’s that hard”. I tried, and including a multiple product side scrolling and with multiple options as 1 entry, the official one was 5th in the list, and you can only tell that’s the case because “Nintendo Switch” is bolded and you can check the seller when you click on it. Not impossible but certainly not as simple as you’d expect.
I guess if you’re very used to it you don’t notice but I can see how that would jade or confuse new/inexperienced users and lead to buying the wrong or an imitation product.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Your retired mother is the ultimate Amazon mark. Like you said, Amazon is full of sellers with photoshopped images of shitty Chinese knock offs. Regular people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. You basically have to be a forensic expert in your chosen field to have any luck on Amazon.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The main trick is checking the seller. Certain ones are very reliable for used-but-good things like dvds/books. And you just use amazon for the shipping part.
nymwit@lemm.ee 8 months ago
For your used things for sure, the seller being reputable and the items being less common works well. Common items (like that knock off Switch dock above) that can be faked are tough because even if you buy product X from seller A, all product Xs can be in the same bin at the warehouse and Amazon just grabs one and ships. if Seller B is pushing a hard-to-distinguish knock off that Amazon believes is product X, then one might end up with that one and think seller A is to blame. That sort of mistake is definitely Amazon’s fault in my view. You can end up with knock off stuff when buying from the official brand’s store on Amazon for crying out loud.