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If there B2B quality control is anything like what they offer to consumers, I’m not worried. They cannot pull the blind eye to counterfeit garbage like they do
by freyr 8y ago
If there B2B quality control is anything like what they offer to consumers, I’m not worried. They cannot pull the blind eye to counterfeit garbage like they do to their consumers.
- RobLach 8y agoExactly. Maybe they’ll pull away a box of O-rings from Grainger but I’d never trust Amazon with supplying mission critical parts to spec. Last thing I’d want is all my bolts sheering because they corroded from a lack of zinc plating.
- tbihl 8y agoYou're being ironic, right? Amazon o-rings are a terrifying idea.
- lixtra 8y ago> Amazon with supplying mission critical parts to spec I thought AWS is fairly successful also for HN users.
- jrockway 8y agoUnless AWS is now randomly assigning third-party-operated machines to your jobs, Amazon's inventory problems have nothing to do with AWS.
- insulanus 8y agoThey are talking about Amazon's retail dry goods / physical object reseller business, not their cloud computing business.
- lixtra 8y agoMy point is that they can very well manage their processes if they want to. They could run proper retail for B2B if they wanted as well.
- hinkley 8y agoIt does matter. Typical advice from around town: working on the AWS team is okay, the rest of Amazon is a dumpster fire. I shudder to think what kind of “lessons” are being learned by all of those college grads that go work for Amazon.
- wastedhours 8y agoAm really intrigued by this line - I've never had any reason to suspect my Amazon items in the UK have been counterfeit, whereas it seems like a common refrain in the States. Greater reliance on the third-party market and intermingling stock? Or radically different product base?
- arethuza 8y agoUK here - I've definitely had concerns about some items but recently I ordered a Apple headphone adapter that was definitely advertised as "Genuine Apple" and clearly wasn't when it arrived - it works, but in a direct comparison with a part known to be from Apple you can see the differences. Not at big deal as it was a cheap part - but it was the final straw. NB I'm not anti Amazon by any means - I'm a long time Audible subscriber, use my Kindle pretty much every day and I pay for Prime Video. Wouldn't buy anything electrical from them again though.
- AJ007 8y agoI'm annoyed by getting counterfeit vacuum cleaner filters at the same price or higher as real ones, but anything where counterfeit could be dangerous I completely avoid (like, for example coffee filters or easily counterfeited electronics.) In the US, retailers always said Amazon was cheating by avoiding sales tax. The real competitive advantage they have is avoiding all of the legal liability of the products being sold.
- pc86 8y agoI'm pretty pro-Amazon but if counterfeit products has never been a concern you're just not buying very much. They're everywhere.
- wastedhours 8y agoGenuinely buy a fair bit, and never been a concern. Perhaps as a result of not really buying "brand" stuff on there, and so know it's a wilfully cheap iteration vs being a counterfeit?
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- thejollysin 8y agoRock climbers experience this to a deadly degree. Amazon sells critical life-saving equipment for climbers and mix sales of quality gear and cheap knock-offs. The problem is that a lot of young climbers are ised to using Amazon for everything and aren't aware of the problem. In the climbing worls, "Amazon kills people" is a common mantra.
- astura 8y agoI believe you that Amazon is putting lives in danger, I'm just wondering if you know if there has been any documented injuries from shoddy equipment sold on Amazon yet.