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You would be well advised to never ever get anything you depend on from Amazon, especially not things to protect lives or ensure safety. Amazon has an incredib
by coaxial 8y ago
You would be well advised to never ever get anything you depend on from Amazon, especially not things to protect lives or ensure safety.
Amazon has an incredible problem with counterfeits, but also with quality control: they often will sell you items that have been used and returned by customers as new and never used.
You can't even rely on the reviews because sellers routinely game the system and flood their listings with fake or bought 5 star reviews. Oftentimes, when I publish a 1 star review, the seller will reach out and ask me to change my review to 5 star in exchange for another free product of theirs. Many people bite.
I personally quit buying anything at all from Amazon for that reason, instead I find the item locally and price match if the store allows. Even if you report it, the underpaid customer service agent only seems to have one incentive: number of cases handled by hour. Don't expect much when reporting counterfeit or unsafe products, they'll say amazon cares, thank you, it will be forwarded to whoever. It might as well go to /dev/null because nothing ever happens.
It eludes me how amazon (the retailer) plans on staying in business in the long term while behaving this way.