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Umm...not true. There is no rail on the edge of Half Dome..you can literally hang your feet off the edge, as I have done....and it was pretty cool.
by XalvinX 8y ago
Umm...not true. There is no rail on the edge of Half Dome..you can literally hang your feet off the edge, as I have done....and it was pretty cool.
- lisper 8y agoAt least on Half Dome it is hard to miss the fact that you are approaching the edge, and that this entails risk. Amazon is deliberately obscuring the risks by making it appear that products are vetted and/or endorsed, either by them or by customers, when in fact they are not. Even the review system, which you praised in your OP, is easily gamed.
- XalvinX 8y agoA "FOAF" of mine tried to game the review system with a fairly intricate level of seperation and was busted for it... From just this experience (and from reading some stuff related to it on forums for independent authors trying to gain a foothold and get their name out there) I feel that Amazon is trying, and the "word on the street" is that they are increasing their efforts all the time. It will never be perfect though, and that's my point. You have to face facts...there is no way Amazon (or EBay or anyone else) can possibly look at every item being sold on their massive platform. Buyer beware.
- lisper 8y ago> there is no way Amazon (or EBay or anyone else) can possibly look at every item being sold on their massive platform Amazon and Ebay are not comparable. What you say is true for Ebay, but not for Amazon. Amazon could vet its offerings just like every other retailer throughout history has done (that is, in fact, a big reason why retailers exist in the first place). The reason they don't is not because they can't but because it's too expensive. Their strategy is very deliberately to remove this piece of value that retailers normally add and hope nobody notices. It's working. :-(