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My sibling complained that I spent too much money when I purchased my parents an SSD for their photos. The same sibling owns a fake SSD 🤦‍♀️

Brazil has a reverse public auction where several Federal services (police, transport) make a request proposal, and several suppliers make a bid to become suppliers for the lowest price... There was this bid for 8GB pendrives for the police, and the Police Officer brought his own drive and said: "I have a drive with eight 1GB video files, and if your pendrives fail to save them, I will put you under arrest." Half of the bidders dropped their offers.

As someone who is hard of hearing and relies on lip reading a fair bit, I’m REALLY thankful to the editing staff for putting CC for someone speaking off screen. I’d never understand it otherwise.

Making it impossible to switch the product category might be one way to at least make it way harder to review merge, especially in the tech space.

Amazon doesn't let us easily report product. If they make it easier we could shut down those scammers easier.

Amazon really needs to do something about it. Like a few months ago I was like "Eh, I could use another SSD", checked Amazon, saw tons of obvious scams, and then went "I don't feel like trying to navigate getting a good deal vs avoiding any subtle scams, I'm just not going to bother."

A possible solution for “listing merging” could be to make sure that it stays in the same category, and if it changes too much after merging, disable it until reviewed by some human or software.

Amazon tip: avoid product brands that sound like cans thrown down the stairs.

Amazon has gotten so dodgy. I can’t even find the legitimate name brands anymore on many product types. I’ve been spending less on Amazon because it’s gotten frustrating

As someone who grew up in a TRS-80 and Atari -800 era, us older people are already of a mindset “it’s too good to be true”. I have a legitimate 4tb spinner that holds more data than those disks laid end to end across the entire US. So us older folks have trouble with the line of “too good to be true”.

Jeffe retired (he came back briefly during the pandemic) and Amazon hasn't been the same since Andy and the corporate dweebs have taken over. What bothers me most about scamming customers is they don't get it. Sears Roebuck was the Amazon of the 19th & 20th centuries and they died a horrible death because of terrible customer service and replacing quality with crap. So thank you for posting these videos and remember, "Buyer Beware". I do wish Amazon would try harder policing their website!

Amazon Prime is starting to become a joke - searching for everyday products like a fan is a tricky task. You’ll find a dozen fans with the exact same design but with a different brand name. Amazon is taking us all for a ride here

Amazon can fix this by not allowing sellers to change the category of listed items, mainly when they have already been broadly sold. They can go even further in this and remove the ability to change titles when passed a certain length of time. Or they can keep older versions of the same item so buyers can go through what has been changed and what has not.

My gf's dad bought one of those 16TB drives literally today. He was trying to convince me its real. Thanks for saving me the trouble of explaining it

My favorite thing about these products are the generally off topic reviews and sometimes askew lettering on the case. My brothers friend fell for one of these scams around two months ago but was refunded a few days later. The worst part is that the same scam is still for sale on amazon.

Amazon also refuses to put up negative reviews about products. They usually say the review did not meet its guidelines or some nonsense.

This is Amazons biggest issue. I see myself avoiding Amazon because it becomes more and more like Wish or Alibaba.

I think the biggest problem is that Amazon pretends to be a "safe" site, when it just isn't. Ebay isn't perfect, but at least it emphasizes that sellers could be any random people and you might want to look at their reviews to see if they can be trusted. Amazon does list sellers and have seller reviews, but it's very de-emphasized, particularly the difference between "sold by Amazon" and "fulfilled by Amazon". Despite the fact the latter may be a counterfeit, fraud, and possibly genuinely dangerous. Or I see a review that says someone got a counterfeit... but the reviews don't show what seller someone bought it from, so does this tell me anything relevant, or do I just need to avoid buying anything from any third party seller I don't specifically know to trust?

my brother once got fooled by this scam. he bought a "2 tb Seagate" , but when i oppened the enclosure it was a hitachi with 160 gb size