I'd argue that neither problem is unique to Amazon. E-Bay was notorious for being the dumping ground for burned out/damaged computer parts, though they did star

I'd argue that neither problem is unique to Amazon. E-Bay was notorious for being the dumping ground for burned out/damaged computer parts, though they did start weeding out people that do that because sold as-is or not, it caused a lot of problems and damaged E-bay's brand. Best Buy has been the target of return scams forever because they are easy marks. If you live in Texas then your probably familiar with Fry's Electronics - when I used to buy parts from them we started marking all of the stuff we returned so that we wouldn't buy it again. I've had > 99% good experience buying from Aliexpress but you have read carefully and make sure you know what your ordering. Only bad experience I had was ordering a dozen i2c multiplexers and receiving a child's leather minidress instead, seller would only speak to me in nonsense sentence fragments regardless if I contacted them in English or Mandarin, and it took three weeks to get a refund. But on the bright side the exact same nail files that CVS sells for $10 each I can get 5 for $1 if I'm willing to wait 2-3 weeks.