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Not only are they not curated, the marketplace owner will often do nothing about borderline fraud. A real life for-example: There's a specific kind of cat tre
by georgemcbay 4y ago
Not only are they not curated, the marketplace owner will often do nothing about borderline fraud.
A real life for-example:
There's a specific kind of cat treat I used to buy on Amazon, at some point various (or maybe the same under different names, who knows) resellers began to sell that treat in a way where they would break up the retail packaging and sell single pouches for the same price as the MSRP for a whole case (the way the manufacturer sells it).
Technically not exactly fraud because they mention the size in the item description fine print, but because of the pricing and the way Amazon tends to just mix different SKUs from both themselves and resellers willy-nilly into different options of the same listing, its incredibly easy to just assume you are buying the full retail product as packaged by the manufacturer.
To Amazon's somewhat-credit, they've refunded me when this situation occurred, but to their shame they've never done a single visible thing to stop this practice from happening and I've proactively reported it to them repeatedly.
End result is there's a whole bunch of categories of products I won't buy from Amazon anymore because I don't want to have to do in-depth detective work every time I make a purchase. I get my pet stuff from Chewy now as I've yet to run into a similar scam on that website.
- bombcar 4y agoI’d be terrified that you’re getting fake pet food, as that seems less risky than faking human food.
- cyberlurker 4y agoI bought a light fixture off of Amazon that caught fire on its own. I reported it to customer support and said it should be removed from the marketplace. They did for a day but it was up the day after. So yeah add light fixtures to the list.
- wppick 4y agoThat's nothing compared to what worse things could actually be happening. There doesn't seem to be any quality control or authenticity verification on any of these marketplaces including Amazon. Good case scenario the item you buy is a high quality fake. Worst case scenario it's a low quality fake. Filled with toxic chemicals (without the warning that it is carcinogenic or causes reproductive harm etc.) Are you buying kids toys from these marketplaces? Food items, clothes, kitchenwares, face masks, anything really.