I swear I see an article like this on HN at least once a month (actually, according to https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=amazon&sor

I swear I see an article like this on HN at least once a month (actually, according to https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=amazon&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., it's probably closer to about once a week) and the comments are always the same, let me save you (the person reading this) some time and summarize what these comments are going to look like: > I've lost all faith in Amazon, now I use Walmart, where I get cheap junk but at least I know it's real cheap junk > Amazon has so much data! How have they failed so hard to stop this? > I swear I see this type of article posted every other week on HN > I was recently hit by this! They even shipped it in totally real looking packing and outer shell, but the serial number wasn't valid/the company selling it had no record of my purchase/when I dropped it and the casing popped open I could see it was not authentic/etc > This is largely because of comingling > Check out fakespot/reviewmeta, they can analyze the comments and tell you which ones are fake > This is Amazon's fault for making reviews so important for the seller