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> Amazon has become quite the cesspool of late. Agreed, Fulfillment by Amazon opened the floodgates for dishonest sellers and reviewers. It's slowly turning in

> Amazon has become quite the cesspool of late. Agreed, Fulfillment by Amazon opened the floodgates for dishonest sellers and reviewers. It's slowly turning into Alibaba. I no longer trust anything I see on Amazon unless it's a well-known, name brand product being sold by Amazon themselves.

tunap 10y ago
Even then, how do you know that it didn't come off a rejects pallet originally shipped overseas b/c the items were deemed "not fit" for sale in the US, then reshipped back in bulk to a private reseller? Saddest part of this trend is it's not just Amazon. Newegg, BestBuy, and even Walmart, now have these "marketplaces" full of spurious sellers. Drop-shipped rejects, so-called refurbs and mis-represented descriptions abound. edit: sorry if not from US, I and my experiences are from the US and tend to be US-centric.
- ProAm 10y ago
  Is there evidence of NewEgg doing this? Ive seen proof of the others, but not NewEgg? I hope its not true, Ive always had good experience with them for probably close to a decade now.
  - DiabloD3 10y ago
    Newegg doesn't do this, but Newegg does allow third party sellers on their website so the third party sellers still may be selling garbage. Newegg really needs to drop that shit, it's bad for business.
    - tunap 10y ago
      Agreed. It has sullied their otherwise stellar track record, IMO. On another note: THANK YOU NEWEGG! For adding an apply to their side-bar search function so my page doesn't have to refresh EVERY! TIME! I! MAKE! A! SELECTION!
FireBeyond 10y ago
Even "sold by Amazon themselves" is something of a concern: There's no differentiation in the warehouse between "item as sold by Amazon" and "item as sold by Joe's Hard Drives and Fulfilled By Amazon". People have commented on this before, with returns and exchanges, unique identifiers on something that they bought back from themselves (can't remember the reasoning) not being present, and Amazon saying "well, all items with a given SKU get grouped together".

tunap 10y ago

Even then, how do you know that it didn't come off a rejects pallet originally shipped overseas b/c the items were deemed "not fit" for sale in the US, then reshipped back in bulk to a private reseller? Saddest part of this trend is it's not just Amazon. Newegg, BestBuy, and even Walmart, now have these "marketplaces" full of spurious sellers. Drop-shipped rejects, so-called refurbs and mis-represented descriptions abound. edit: sorry if not from US, I and my experiences are from the US and tend to be US-centric.

ProAm 10y ago
Is there evidence of NewEgg doing this? Ive seen proof of the others, but not NewEgg? I hope its not true, Ive always had good experience with them for probably close to a decade now.
- DiabloD3 10y ago
  Newegg doesn't do this, but Newegg does allow third party sellers on their website so the third party sellers still may be selling garbage. Newegg really needs to drop that shit, it's bad for business.
  - tunap 10y ago
    Agreed. It has sullied their otherwise stellar track record, IMO. On another note: THANK YOU NEWEGG! For adding an apply to their side-bar search function so my page doesn't have to refresh EVERY! TIME! I! MAKE! A! SELECTION!

FireBeyond 10y ago

Even "sold by Amazon themselves" is something of a concern: There's no differentiation in the warehouse between "item as sold by Amazon" and "item as sold by Joe's Hard Drives and Fulfilled By Amazon". People have commented on this before, with returns and exchanges, unique identifiers on something that they bought back from themselves (can't remember the reasoning) not being present, and Amazon saying "well, all items with a given SKU get grouped together".