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Well, I think people do trust amazon, they don't trust all the other companies on amazon. But unless I'm misunderstanding, this move means that people can't buy

Well, I think people do trust amazon, they don't trust all the other companies on amazon. But unless I'm misunderstanding, this move means that people can't buy from amazon any longer. They have to buy everything from all the other vendors on amazon. The problem being, of course, that these other sellers may or may not scam you. (I'm not 100% about that interpretation of this move, but that's what it sounds like? Lawyers may want to chime in.) So under these conditions, I would strongly urge people not to purchase from amazon's site, because it's gonna be essentially 100% potential scams. They should move to target or walmart. At least until those stores are also obliged to do the same thing. (Since they have the same fulfillment business models I'm assuming they'd be next? But they should be safe for now.) After the law gets to them too, people may want to limit online shopping only to small ticket items that won't cause too much disappointment if you get scammed. Because online shopping will become the wild west with every transaction being backed only by caveat emptor.

NavinF 5y ago
Oh Amazon has been selling garbage for years, but only for “commodity” items that the average user can’t test for quality. Example: All coin cells (regardless of brand/seller) on Amazon are fake. These cells last 2-4 months (long enough that most people won’t bother to contact support) when the same model from an electronics distributor like Mouser lasts ~8 years as advertised. > people may want to limit online shopping only to small ticket items Oddly enough, I’ve had much better luck with big ticket items on Amazon since they’re much harder to fake and because they get special treatment (brand registration) from Amazon. But for small stuff Amazon is just AliExpress with faster shipping.
- kingcharles 5y ago
  I would guess that carries to other batteries as they are easy to fake and hard to detect. A decent proportion of all the memory cards, flash drives and SSDs are fake on Amazon.
  - randomtwiddler 5y ago
    Agreed on both batteries and SD cards. I would add Ethernet cables are crap off Amazon also. The specs offered are useless.
    - kingcharles 5y ago
      Thanks for the heads-up. I've always accepted that Ethernet cables do what they say on the wire, but now that you mention it, it seems ruthlessly easy to print whatever on the cable and give you something that will only transfer at a fraction of the bandwidth. I'm slowly collecting a list of things that I need to buy only from genuine suppliers.
mypalmike 5y ago
"this move means that people can't buy from amazon any longer. They have to buy everything from all the other vendors on amazon." You did not read the article.

NavinF 5y ago

Oh Amazon has been selling garbage for years, but only for “commodity” items that the average user can’t test for quality. Example: All coin cells (regardless of brand/seller) on Amazon are fake. These cells last 2-4 months (long enough that most people won’t bother to contact support) when the same model from an electronics distributor like Mouser lasts ~8 years as advertised. > people may want to limit online shopping only to small ticket items Oddly enough, I’ve had much better luck with big ticket items on Amazon since they’re much harder to fake and because they get special treatment (brand registration) from Amazon. But for small stuff Amazon is just AliExpress with faster shipping.

kingcharles 5y ago
I would guess that carries to other batteries as they are easy to fake and hard to detect. A decent proportion of all the memory cards, flash drives and SSDs are fake on Amazon.
- randomtwiddler 5y ago
  Agreed on both batteries and SD cards. I would add Ethernet cables are crap off Amazon also. The specs offered are useless.
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    Thanks for the heads-up. I've always accepted that Ethernet cables do what they say on the wire, but now that you mention it, it seems ruthlessly easy to print whatever on the cable and give you something that will only transfer at a fraction of the bandwidth. I'm slowly collecting a list of things that I need to buy only from genuine suppliers.

mypalmike 5y ago

"this move means that people can't buy from amazon any longer. They have to buy everything from all the other vendors on amazon." You did not read the article.