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Most digusting thing I encountered on Amazon was when I bought a book about dealing with chronic pain. I was really depressed for weeks and had flare ups all th
by varispeed 4y ago
Most digusting thing I encountered on Amazon was when I bought a book about dealing with chronic pain. I was really depressed for weeks and had flare ups all the time and also I couldn't get medication because of Brexit and chaos with the import licenses for certain drugs. So I was looking for something that could help me deal with it - I wasn't really expecting to find anything groundbreaking, but if you are desperate you will try anything. So I found this book that description was appealing to me and it had great reviews.
The book arrived the next day. It turns out it was a scam. Just a cover and empty pages. It was like being in a car crash and then having a bystander punch you in the face, that's how I felt.
I didn't have strength to go to Post Office to return it, but fortunately after explaining this to Amazon they refunded me without having to post it.
Now what I am angry about is that we pay a ton of money in taxes for institutions like Trading Standards, Competition and Markets Authority, Serious Fraud Office and Police and they seem the be not doing their job.
If you started an online business and facilitating the sales of counterfeit goods, they would probably be all over you, because who is afaid of a small guy.
But if it is giant like Amazon, I can feel that a mere thought of doing anything about this brings officers a brown stuff down their pants.
Why don't they order closure of Amazon until they sort this out? One law for the rich, one law for the pleb?
- dannyw 4y agoThe majority of people ordering from Amazon are happy enough to keep ordering there. If you shut down Amazon, you're the one in trouble with your populace. That leaves the legal route, which has been pay-to-play since the medieval times, and corporations can spend more on lawyers than most statutory departments.
- rightbyte 4y ago> If you shut down Amazon, you're the one in trouble with your populace. You just need to increase the cost of doing fraudulent business by fining them more than they profit from the frauds.
- rightbyte 4y agoYe. Amazon really need to be prosecuted for all the frauds they commit. I can't even bring fake brand jeans over the border but they can do what ever.