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I have found that “shipped and sold by amazon” also involves a very high proportion of defective or counterfeit items. Even with books, there are many copyrigh
by jacobolus 7y ago
I have found that “shipped and sold by amazon” also involves a very high proportion of defective or counterfeit items.
Even with books, there are many copyright-violating counterfeits, alongside many “printed on demand” copies at horrible quality (but not advertised as such) under some kind of shady deal Amazon forced down publishers’ throats.
Unfortunately Amazon has driven many alternative vendors out of the market, so it’s sometimes hard to find things elsewhere online.
- Waterluvian 7y agoI hear this complaint about quality a lot online. But I've been buying for ten years, hundreds of orders. And not once have I had a complaint. The closest I got was a broken Amazon branded space heater but they recalled all of them last week so that feels like an anomaly. So I'm not really sure what to think.
- cannonedhamster 7y agoI've definitely noticed a huge drop in quality over the years. Depending upon what you order it's safer to go through AliExpress. I wouldn't buy anything that I value my life or my data for from Amazon.