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Why do you accept that it’s ok to sell harmful products? Amazon is a $1 trillion dollar company. It’s not some guy selling things out of the trunk of his car.
by MichaelApproved 7y ago
Why do you accept that it’s ok to sell harmful products?
Amazon is a $1 trillion dollar company. It’s not some guy selling things out of the trunk of his car. It should be reasonable for me to assume buying something there is safe.
- friendly_fren 7y agoindividual freedom. I hate nanny government regulation. The government's role isn't to protect people from making bad decisions. Harmful is subjective. Don't ban my plastic bags or straws.
- FireBeyond 7y agoFire risk batteries being harmful, for but one example, is hardly "subjective". Apparently in your world, it's perfectly okay for Joe Johnson to create an Amazon merchant account called "Apple" and sell me and sell me defective products under the Apple label.
- BubRoss 7y agoAllowing corporations to lie to you is not most people's idea of freedom.
- shadowgovt 7y ago> It should be reasonable for me to assume buying something there is safe. The only thing we should ever assume is that a company has policies and will honor those policies as required by law. Here's Amazon's policy on guarantee. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201889410 https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... There is no mention of safety. Here's Amazon's policy on safety. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=202074030 https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... There is no guarantee associated with it. They are a trillion-dollar company, but what we're observing is that the market isn't hyper-thirsty for safety guarantees and is willing to accept their current climate for service convenience. Other stores will let you make a different safety-convenience tradeoff.