Amazon... more like SCAMazon - Fake SSDs
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Published 2023-03-06
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At one point, Amazon was game changing and felt like the best place to shop online. Don’t have to worry about the scams and crappy quality on Ebay and Alibaba. But then something changed. Suddenly all you can find on the website is cheap garbage, or worse, complete scams. We take a look at one of the most prevalent scams on the platform, fake SSDs and hard drives. What do you get when you buy one of these, and how do they keep getting away with it?
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:37 What we Got
6:48 Going inside
9:45 How The Scam Works
12:08 How they get away with it
15:07 Why Amazon Can't Stop It
18:58 Outro
All Comments (21)
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Have you purchased a “scam” product from Amazon before? How did your experience go? Let us know below! Buy a SanDisk 1TB Extreme Portable SSD: geni.us/JBi36 Buy a SABRENT 8TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe PCie M.2 SSD: geni.us/kHt2h Buy FEEL2NICE Apple MFi Certfied 10ft iPhone Chargers (Pack of 5): geni.us/ASjWwhx Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.
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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 🤦♀️
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Amazon tip: avoid product brands that sound like cans thrown down the stairs.
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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."
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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
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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”.
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Amazon doesn't let us easily report product. If they make it easier we could shut down those scammers easier.
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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
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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.
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Amazon also refuses to put up negative reviews about products. They usually say the review did not meet its guidelines or some nonsense.
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This is Amazons biggest issue. I see myself avoiding Amazon because it becomes more and more like Wish or Alibaba.
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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
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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!
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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.
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Please remember that returning a product is your greatest strength with Amazon. If you must issue a chargeback—and I wouldn’t recommend going that route with Amazon—use the option “product not as described”. This is useful with other vendors.
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Worst part about this scam for those who fall for it is that they'll be assuming their data is all there, but then they'll go to try and retrieve their data that has been deleted only to finally notice the issue...on top of the fact that they almost certainly don't follow best or even decent backup practices.
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One of the more terrifying parts of this is that contrary to popular belief these operations will often have massive financial backings with organised crime. Not only do these listings generate income for some really bad people but they can often be used for money laundering and even black market dealing.
