• DreddNYC@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Amazon has to deal with their counterfeit merchandise problem. Try to buy a memory card on Amazon and odds are you get a bogus counterfeit card.

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      1 year ago

      Amazon has the money to vet its products and provide better search results, it just chooses not to because it doesn’t need to.

      Better to shove a shitty, expensive product in customer’s faces than a cheap, standard one.

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        1 year ago

        Not only that, Amazon has the mechanisms to prevent counterfeiting today: dedicated bins for individual sellers products. They just make the vendors pay an extra fee to use it.

        Literally extorting their sellers. “Gee it’d be a shame if some counterfeit merchandise were to be sold instead of yours. I could protect you from that”

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      1 year ago

      never had an issue since they started separating the third-party inventory from their stock. just make sure it’s sold by Amazon.