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> Amazon has been subsidizing it in the hope that people would buy stuff on a moment's whim any time of the day. I think the deeper issue is that when Amazon s
by mabbo 4y ago
> Amazon has been subsidizing it in the hope that people would buy stuff on a moment's whim any time of the day.
I think the deeper issue is that when Amazon started the product (I heard rumours of it circa 2014 or so?) Amazon was a trusted retailed. Stuff was cheap and generally good. Now it's a scummy marketplace filled with fakes and frauds. I'm not buying anything off it until I've deeply reviewed what I'm about to buy.
- krasin 4y ago> I'm not buying anything off it until I've deeply reviewed what I'm about to buy. <...> and even then you might get a fake from due to commingled inventory. Even for books ([1], [2], [3]). 1. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6920552393138962432/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6920552... 2. https://twitter.com/burkov/status/1369096357252849664 https://twitter.com/burkov/status/1369096357252849664 3. https://hairysun.com/amazons-book-piracy-problem.html https://hairysun.com/amazons-book-piracy-problem.html