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Not defending people who steal, but Amazon especially have purposefully chosen to use a system whereby they don't really track this sort of thing: because it's
by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Not defending people who steal, but Amazon especially have purposefully chosen to use a system whereby they don't really track this sort of thing: because it's historically been cheaper for them to just accept returns without checking than to check them.
Previously the small losses from people who were stealing were < the price they'd have to pay to have systems in place to check this stuff in depth.
I've received stuff from Amazon where they've sent me an empty box with no product in it - because the previous person probably "returned" it, then I have to be the one who reports "uhh...the thing I bought isn't actually in the box".
- nodesocket 3y agoI buy a lot on Amazon business and prime. Never have I gotten an empty box. That's interesting, are they shipping you used products?
- fennecfoxy 3y agoNot sure, shouldn't be used but I've still had a Samsung SSD show up without the m.2 SSD in the box and the same for some ram (when I went from 16GB to 32GB a couple years later). I feel like this behaviour is in part a reaction to infinite growth and the accumulation of wealth these days. The divide is becoming so large that nobody can aspire to have the things that they want to have, which is all the more depressing for gen z knowing that previous generations have allowed trillionaires to exist, and the general political attitude from wannabe millionaires and billionaires is that everything is OK.
- singleshot_ 3y agoCan you name a natural person who owns or ever owned 1 trillion USD in assets.
- Something1234 3y agoI had a sloppily resealed switch game sent to me. It was without the game in it. At least I got my money back. I hate this trust less society.
- fy20 3y agoI've bought a lot from Amazon Warehouse and never had this. I have had products that don't work though. I'm guessing they break after a while and people buy a new one, then return the broken one. This is a bit pointless though as Amazon's guarantee is really good (in Europe at least). A few years ago I got my wife an iPhone SE and after 1 and a half years it stopped working. I took it to an Apple repair center, and they said if I bought it there they would replace it - but as it was bought from another retailer I needed to return it to them. I contacted Amazon and they said as that model was no longer sold, they would refund the full amount I paid. Not bad.
- wil421 3y agoTwice I’ve been a delivered a box with my name but a bunch of random stuff inside. One time I received fake RAM that was a foil blanket inside a shoddy RAM package.
- dsgnr 3y ago[dead]