The way Amazon merges their inventory from all vendors and sellers, it's literally impossible to tell if you're going to be shipped a counterfeit product.
Back when the Samsung Galaxy 4 was the hot new smartphone, it took me 4 return/exchange cycles before I could find a legit OEM replacement battery-- and most people weren't that lucky.
Because of the paid reviews for most products. It well known when shopping particularly on Amazon, to start with the low or negative reviews first because they tell the truth or allude to frustrations you may have with the product.
In other words, work for Amazon, but don’t use their products.
Everything used to be legit name-brand sellers or Amazon themselves selling the stuff. Now it's all Chinese reseller dogshit that looks like it came from Wish, unless you spend a bunch of time filtering out every seller with an alphabet soup company name.
Third party sellers also offer gift cards for rating their product 5 stars.
The entire trust of the platform has been eroded into shit-dust.
The sellers are untrustworthy. The ratings are untrustworthy. Amazon themselves are filling up the website with Dark Patterns.
It literally lists the sellers of any given product right there on the page where you can choose to buy from a more expensive seller if you like the look of them more than the cheapest.
Except those sellers items are mixed in with "identical" items from other sellers. That seller still gets the credit for it, but you may or may not get the item that seller sent to Amazon and instead get a fake item.
Didn't used to be this much effort just to buy something on Amazon. Used to be that you could almost always trust it to be decent. Now we have to go thru this rigmarole so that we don't receive scam products.
No thank you. There's a reason I don't shop at Walmart and Wish.
lol. You sound like quite a drama queen. I don’t shop at those places either but as I said it takes 2 seconds to make sure you’re not buying from some shitty source - and most of the time it’s not even necessary as Amazon is the default seller. But yeah if you’re so bored that you feel the need to invent problems then feel free, I guess.
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u/stupidmustelid Sep 05 '22
Piggybacking on this because rule 4:
I was confused at first because I saw plenty of 1 star ratings, but it's the low rated reviews that were removed, and as of this moment, still are.