Buying from a reputable operation spares you from a lot of this. Amazon is all hot garbage across the board.
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
Submitted 4 hours ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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ryrybang@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 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.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour 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.
Beacon@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Yeah this stuff is why i never buy tech from Amazon, you never know if you're gonna get a counterfeit item
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 minutes 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.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
This isn’t exclusive to Amazon. I had it happen with friends build back in the Newegg days.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 26 minutes ago
Newegg is still a thing, you just need to check the “Sold by Newegg” filter.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
No sympathy for anyone who still supports and buys from Amazon.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I hate buying from Amazon and avoid it as much as I can, but one thing I’ve noticed in the last 5-10 years is that brick and mortar stores seem to have given up completely. It is shocking how many times I’ve wanted to buy something, often very common, from popular brands, and I try and find a local store to buy it from only for that store to be out of stock or just not stock it at all. It feels to me like these stores are filled with “stuff” but none of the things I want to buy.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
On the one hand, I loathe feeling that way sometimes. On the other hand, for the better part of the past decade+ any criticism I had about Amazon was met with victim blaming white knight replies and basically no support. At best I’m probably more on the ambivalent side of things than the no sympathy side, not that there’s effectively much difference.
brandon@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Cost doesn’t seem to matter with return fraud. I recently received a “new” $6 item that had its contents replaced with a $4 item and then taped shut. Seriously, who wastes their time on this stuff?
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Probably the same people running Pokémon card hustles. I recently saw a guy acting all pissy he had to wait in line at target to buy some packs, started berating the workers “you work at target, you’re broke as fuck”. The workers actually went in on him, I was so happy to see it. They made fun of him for trying to hustle over cards for children and told him to go home and cry to his mom about it.
Thats the kind of loser wasting their time on 2-5 dollar profit per return.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Please sir, do you have a link.
punkwalrus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Keep in mind, whenever you think too hard about these sorts of things, this is one of those operations that could apply to Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Many people make the incorrect assumption of something like, “They must have done some clever supply-chain wizardry," or “There’s a smart cost-reduction plan behind this.” When in reality, a lot of times, the actual explanation is something like a mid-level manager wanted a slide that said “cost savings," then procurement was pressured due to some personality ego problem, engineering objections were ignored, the math was never checked, and in the end, nobody involved actually understood unit economics. Maybe exchanging a $6 part for a $4 looks good in volume, but they only did this 20 times, resulting in $40 of savings which was erased by their reputation and incompetence.
I have worked government contracts. I have worked with shitty project managers. There’s a lot more of these mistakes than you realize powering economies.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 hours ago
Maybe I haven’t understood your point but it sounds like you’re describing people both acting maliciously and being stupid about it., so I don’t see it as a case of Hanlon’s razor.
Exchanging the item for another one that’s cheaper, even if it’s only $6 total, is still dishonest. The fact that it may not even be worth it for them in the end doesn’t change the fact it was an attempt to mislead. They were listing a product, and delivered another one.
Triumph@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Volume and slavery.
Lexam@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I think I will just go to Microcenter
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I wish I had a Microcenter less than 8hrs away. Best Buy is all I have and I am not buying there.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I miss Microcenter
folekaule@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Same. I’m lucky enough to have two within driving distance. I’m genuinely worried about them staying in business if PC building takes a nosedive thanks to the RAM/SSD prices.
kboos1@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Why put a weight? DDR2 weight vs DDR5 weight difference wouldn’t be noticeable until they put the weight in because now it would weight 3x what it should. I suspect the person claiming fraud is the one committing fraud or this is a fake article.
asqapro@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
In case Amazon does weight comparison to the original in the shipping center. They have to be close or the package gets rejected and inspected.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 hours ago
Maybe they ordered a kit of 2 sticks and they put 1 stick in there
jonathan@piefed.social 3 hours ago
I ordered a 4tb SSD, received an SSD heatsink in the box.
demizerone@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
I have some 128gb ddr5 kit I bought a few years ago. Want to sell it back I’m not going to use it but the scammers be scamming.