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I stopped buying on Amazon for this reason. If I want Chinese Wares I get them cheaper on Aliexpress. If I found something interesting on Amazon I will check i
by number6 4y ago
I stopped buying on Amazon for this reason. If I want Chinese Wares I get them cheaper on Aliexpress.
If I found something interesting on Amazon I will check if there is a independent shop online that sells it (almost always has a Amazon shop too).
Even if I know the brand and the model: there are many fake products on Amazon. Especially when they are produced in China by a Chinese frim: e.g. Anker, who deliver great products if you are not getting fake ones...
- prox 4y agoI used to notice that criticizing Amazon on Reddit was a way to quickly get a ton of downvotes, as if an active party was trying to stamp out negativity. I heard about an active social media team that stamps out negativity. Not sure if it’s true, but I can’t rule it out either.
- Semaphor 4y ago> I used to notice that criticizing Amazon on Reddit was a way to quickly get a ton of downvotes. What subreddit? Because neither on HN nor Reddit, I ever see anything positive about Amazon.
- prox 4y agoCan’t really remember to be honest, this was a while ago 5/6 years, so maybe things changed. Probably some news subreddits I followed then.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoReddit is pretty much controlled by PR company bots. It's not surprising that they sometimes overdo it.
- prox 4y agoYou have by any chance any resources on how they operate and research into this?
- astura 4y agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-is-being-manipulated-by-big-financial-services-companies/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-i...
- prox 4y agoThanks for the article, so I actually searched “reputation management” and there is actually a subreddit for this, active till two years ago. Crazy really that this can happen.
- mancerayder 4y agoWow! How is this legal. It feels like manipulation and fraud.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y agoYou can buy it cheaper on Aliexpress, but it will take several weeks, and everyone wants instant gratification. That's the entire business model of majority of Amazon sellers - buy on Aliexpress/baba - sell at Amazon at a markup.
- Freak_NL 4y agoThat's improving too. Now, very often you can get 15 day delivery on orders over €10 (or the equivalent in your local currency). Not instant, but often quite manageable.
- dirtyid 4y agoSometimes producers (RIP MPOW) also directly lists on Amazon, so you pay a small premium for fast shipping from local warehouses, and get pretty decent unofficial warranty - they know Q&A on low margin items lacking, high defect rate likely - will often replaced items no question asks on 1star review with offer to change back to 5 stars to (justifiably) gush about how painless RMA process is. Sometimes they even give you the shady gift card. Much better experience than aliexpress.
- Ekaros 4y agoIsn't that the entire model of most retail stores? Namely that they are retail and have items available for reasonably fast shipping.
- marcosdumay 4y agoThe business model of retail stores is that they will deal with individual products, individual users, and small geographic areas in exchange for a share of the profits.
- mox1 4y agoYes they have a job title called “buyer” whose job it is to find goods that the store should sell, including quality and safety (varies by store!).
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- spaceman_2020 4y agoYep, same for me. Unreal how every product somehow now has a 4.5+ rating. Amazon is just filled with scams and fakes now.
- chrischen 4y agoTo be fair if Amazon is showing products with low ratings then it means they are continuing to sell shitty products. You don’t see low ratings because they just get removed.
- chiefalchemist 4y agoAlso known as survivor bias. That's a good point, tho I suspect the system is still flawed and scammed.
- WhackyIdeas 4y agoAnker might be great in your eyes, but they are deceptive scoundrels in mines. Simply youtube “Eufy leaks”. But yeah, back to the point… Amazon don’t appear to want to fix this broken system or they’d have done it years ago. It still makes them money.
- number6 4y agoThanks for the information
- SpelingBeeChamp 4y agoMind explaining the “Eufy leaks” issue?
- zamalek 4y agoLinus Tech Tips with his Dunning-Kruger effect once again. They upload the data required for mobile notifications to a CDN, which any one of us would likely do. The other half of the controversy is that they upload a facial identifier for the same notification... if you have facial recognition for notifications turned on. The hook-up has a more informed take on the issue: https://youtu.be/a_rAXF_btvE https://youtu.be/a_rAXF_btvE. I'm not sure if he was previously a software engineer, but he certainly seems to understand the problem Eufy faced like one. My take-away is that they should have been more transparent about some form of upload being an unavoidable reality for mobile notifications in their marketing material.
- tannedNerd 4y agoUmmm I’m pretty sure it’s related to the fact you can access unencrypted video streams from cameras that supposedly only have local recording. Or are you just trying to distract from that?
- zamalek 4y agoDo you mean accessing anyone's camera remotely? Or are those recording on the same CDN, with expiring links?