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"Counterfeit" is a good thing in my book, as long as there's a way to know the quality of the product before you buy it. Saying that there's zero counterfeit i
by lone_haxx0r 7y ago
"Counterfeit" is a good thing in my book, as long as there's a way to know the quality of the product before you buy it.
Saying that there's zero counterfeit implies that quality is always the same (good quality, most of the time).
By not acknowledging the existance of counterfeit, Amazon doesn't allow us to publicize and hence compare the quality of different sellers.
- inamberclad 7y agoThe comment above you has other things to say - notably, you're not even guaranteed to get the item from the vendor you ordered from and might get something of lower quality from another seller.
- tasty_freeze 7y agoThat is a short-sighted stance. What incentive do I have to write and publish a book (at least a man-year of effort) when someone expending 1% of the effort gets to reap most of the financial reward for it? Even if the quality of the counterfeit (not sure why you used scare quotes) is fine and you save a few dollars, in the following years you'll find fewer and fewer new books you care to by because few people are writing them.
- asveikau 7y agoThe article talks about a medical handbook whose dosage recommendations might be affected by OCR errors. You want that to come straight from the source and not a scanned copy.