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Every time I see a comment like this I think to myself we must either be using a different Amazon or just buying totally different categories of items. I buy lo

Every time I see a comment like this I think to myself we must either be using a different Amazon or just buying totally different categories of items. I buy lots of things from Amazon. I probably get a package from them at least twice a week (I hate going to stores). In all that time I've never gotten something that was straight up garbage. So how is it so many vocal people are getting a significantly different experience?

ghaff 9y ago
I have the same experience. I tend to try to buy stuff that Amazon sells directly and I regularly pay a bit more for items that seem to have better reviews or, at least, less reviews that give me pause. And I do buy a fair bit of electronics and so forth. I wonder how many of the people who seem to have such bad experiences buy solely on price even when the price seems too good to be true. Case in point. I just bought a couple of Samsung Qi wireless chargers. There were certainly cheaper ones listed but this one won Wirecutter recommendation so it's what I got. Are there counterfeits? Probably. But they probably aren't packaged like the legit item.
- philjohn 9y ago
  That won't help you, Amazon comingles their "sold by amazon" stock with "fulfilled by amazon" stock.
  - ghaff 9y ago
    I don't doubt it happens but I've never had a problem.
  - lsaferite 9y ago
    Do you have proof of that?
outworlder 9y ago
You are just buying different products. I was looking for a Mophie battery case for the iPhone SE. Go there now and look. You’ll find a bunch of cases “by Mophie”, which are all counterfeits, no exceptions. Mophie doesn’t sell on Amazon.
- JavaOffScript 9y ago
  Amazon is great for common household items that I don't want to make a trip to the store for (cleaning supplies, loofahs, notebooks, pens and paper, etc.). If I want to buy, for example, a Samsung or Apple phone charger, I'm going to buy it from the manufacturer's website.
- cthalupa 9y ago
  There are Amazon (Not FBA) listings for Morphie products. Are you saying that Amazon themselves bought and stocked counterfeit Morphie products?
cthalupa 9y ago
My household probably gets 4-5 packages from Amazon a week. Over the past half decade, I've received maybe 2 obviously counterfeit products. If I've gotten anything else that was counterfeit, it was a good enough reproduction for me not to notice. But some people might be buying items exclusively in categories where the rate is higher? I don't know. I buy a lot of electronics and electronic accessories off of Amazon, and that seems to be what others complain about being bad.

ghaff 9y ago

I have the same experience. I tend to try to buy stuff that Amazon sells directly and I regularly pay a bit more for items that seem to have better reviews or, at least, less reviews that give me pause. And I do buy a fair bit of electronics and so forth. I wonder how many of the people who seem to have such bad experiences buy solely on price even when the price seems too good to be true. Case in point. I just bought a couple of Samsung Qi wireless chargers. There were certainly cheaper ones listed but this one won Wirecutter recommendation so it's what I got. Are there counterfeits? Probably. But they probably aren't packaged like the legit item.

philjohn 9y ago
That won't help you, Amazon comingles their "sold by amazon" stock with "fulfilled by amazon" stock.
- ghaff 9y ago
  I don't doubt it happens but I've never had a problem.
- lsaferite 9y ago
  Do you have proof of that?

outworlder 9y ago

You are just buying different products. I was looking for a Mophie battery case for the iPhone SE. Go there now and look. You’ll find a bunch of cases “by Mophie”, which are all counterfeits, no exceptions. Mophie doesn’t sell on Amazon.

JavaOffScript 9y ago
Amazon is great for common household items that I don't want to make a trip to the store for (cleaning supplies, loofahs, notebooks, pens and paper, etc.). If I want to buy, for example, a Samsung or Apple phone charger, I'm going to buy it from the manufacturer's website.
cthalupa 9y ago
There are Amazon (Not FBA) listings for Morphie products. Are you saying that Amazon themselves bought and stocked counterfeit Morphie products?

cthalupa 9y ago

My household probably gets 4-5 packages from Amazon a week. Over the past half decade, I've received maybe 2 obviously counterfeit products. If I've gotten anything else that was counterfeit, it was a good enough reproduction for me not to notice. But some people might be buying items exclusively in categories where the rate is higher? I don't know. I buy a lot of electronics and electronic accessories off of Amazon, and that seems to be what others complain about being bad.