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Are you all for real about this? I buy coffee, soylent, various hard to find canned goods, and other things all the time off Amazon.

walrus01 7y ago
If you actually eat Soylent you're in like the 0.0001th percentile of Amazon shoppers.
- wil421 7y ago
  Downvote walrus01 all you want but I’ve never met a person in real life who eats Soylent. If it weren’t for HN or Reddit I’ve never even know it existed.
  - OatMilkLatte 7y ago
    I have. He was ... a person of generally questionable life choices. Great developer and a true pleasure to work with though.
    - notduncansmith 7y ago
      As a formerly-Soylent-drinking engineer of questionable life choices, I hope there’s a causal relationship behind that correlation :)
  - rootusrootus 7y ago
    They must exist. I can buy Soylent off the shelf at my local Fred Meyer (Kroger for people who don't have Fred Meyer in their area). They are pretty aggressive about dropping products that don't sell in sufficient quantity.
gumby 7y ago
Look at how they mix stock under the same SKU and see if you’re still confident perhaps that Peet’s coffee came from Peet’s or perhaps a third party seller used counterfeit — Amazon’s will put hem into the same punnet and pull out one where it’s from amazon or “fulfilled by amazon”. Right now I’ve only seen it in electronics but I don’t buy much food that way. Amazon fresh is a different thing (all sourced / sold by amazon) so probably not a problem. Likewise oddball stuff (a low volume brand of tea) is unlikely to be worth counterfeiting. But mass market goods definitely are and the baby food example, while not amazon, is an excellent cautionary tale.
- zifnab06 7y ago
  I gave up on Amazon once I wasn't able to buy the replaceable toothbrush heads for my electric toothbrush. Try ordering the name brand oral-b ones and see what shows up (in my case, cheap Chinese knockoffs that lasted about a week instead of however many weeks they're supposed to). I honestly miss being able to go to a unique store to buy things - that way you could look at what you were actually buying and (maybe!) find something better for what you're trying to do.

walrus01 7y ago

If you actually eat Soylent you're in like the 0.0001th percentile of Amazon shoppers.

wil421 7y ago
Downvote walrus01 all you want but I’ve never met a person in real life who eats Soylent. If it weren’t for HN or Reddit I’ve never even know it existed.
- OatMilkLatte 7y ago
  I have. He was ... a person of generally questionable life choices. Great developer and a true pleasure to work with though.
  - notduncansmith 7y ago
    As a formerly-Soylent-drinking engineer of questionable life choices, I hope there’s a causal relationship behind that correlation :)
- rootusrootus 7y ago
  They must exist. I can buy Soylent off the shelf at my local Fred Meyer (Kroger for people who don't have Fred Meyer in their area). They are pretty aggressive about dropping products that don't sell in sufficient quantity.

gumby 7y ago

Look at how they mix stock under the same SKU and see if you’re still confident perhaps that Peet’s coffee came from Peet’s or perhaps a third party seller used counterfeit — Amazon’s will put hem into the same punnet and pull out one where it’s from amazon or “fulfilled by amazon”. Right now I’ve only seen it in electronics but I don’t buy much food that way. Amazon fresh is a different thing (all sourced / sold by amazon) so probably not a problem. Likewise oddball stuff (a low volume brand of tea) is unlikely to be worth counterfeiting. But mass market goods definitely are and the baby food example, while not amazon, is an excellent cautionary tale.

zifnab06 7y ago
I gave up on Amazon once I wasn't able to buy the replaceable toothbrush heads for my electric toothbrush. Try ordering the name brand oral-b ones and see what shows up (in my case, cheap Chinese knockoffs that lasted about a week instead of however many weeks they're supposed to). I honestly miss being able to go to a unique store to buy things - that way you could look at what you were actually buying and (maybe!) find something better for what you're trying to do.