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Frankly speaking, the amount of steps a customer has to go through to ensure quality from Amazon -- check out reviews for buyers, cross check prices to ensure y

Frankly speaking, the amount of steps a customer has to go through to ensure quality from Amazon -- check out reviews for buyers, cross check prices to ensure you are not getting ripped off, check out estimated delivery times, and then as the article (and comments here) state, be on look out for expiration date -- for me at least, it makes sense to use Amazon only for books. Everything else, even living in the First World large Global City (Toronto), I find it easier to just go out to stores to do quick check and buy with piece of mind.

brian_herman__ 7y ago
Sometimes amazon even sells fake books! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazon-caught-selling-counterfeits-of-publishers-computer-books-again/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazo...
- strictnein 7y ago
  This is still happening. Just last week: https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/1183094406573748225 https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/1183094406573748225
- rockinghigh 7y ago
  I can confirm. I received an obviously fake book that seemed to have been printed on a cheap printer.
jimmyvalmer 7y ago
> piece of mind ... said Bruce Dickinson!