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Amazon sends brick in lieu of 5080 – latest cautionary tale in commingling scams(tomshardware.com)
20 points by josephcsible 11 hours ago | 5 comments
SilverElfin 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I can’t understand why Amazon still comingles. It is so hard to trust what you buy. I only want items that either Amazon or the manufacturer purchased as the listed seller. Everything else I don’t trust. For this reason alone I recommend no one buy any personal care or food products from them. The risk isn’t worth it when you’re feeding your kid or whatever.

halJordan 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They just announced that they will end co-mingling. Over some tbd time period

blibble 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

because their business doesn't work without it

the warehouses would have to be 20x the size for the same product catalogue

wnissen 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, they wouldn't be able to pretend that they are selling from the official store for that inventory. Which I, personally, would be OK with. I've been on eBay for a couple decades, I don't mind ordering from Jack and Jill's Computer Parts as long as they have a reputation I can check. But the current situation where you can order from what looks like the the official storefront but the fulfillment is from a seething mass of "stickerless commingled inventory", with no way to even determine which merchant introduced the counterfeit product? This has been a problem for over 10 years. It's not just the obvious fraud, it's the subtler fakes. I won't buy anything from Amazon where the failure could kill or injure someone. A sun hat? Sure. A charger or food? Not a chance.

blibble 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> I won't buy anything from Amazon where the failure could kill or injure someone.

you can do better, don't buy anything from amazon at all, ever

works for me