I don't know. For years Amazon has had a fraudulent item listing problem to the point where it's hard to trust them. They have made no effort that I have seen to solve it. I mean, why would they, their sales haven't declined.

So, I am skeptical books will be any different than all those knock-off drop-shipped items.

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14113 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think you're proving his point: You've identified that the fraudulent items make it hard to trust the marketplace, and (reading between the lines) that has affected your habits in relation to the marketplace.

	▲	antiframe 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but I am one person. Their overall sales numbers show that I am a rare breed. With how bad Amazon has gotten in this regard, I would have expected sales to decline if people cared about it as well. Until they feel it in their pocket book (and it doesn't look like they are) they won't do a whole lot about it.

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DarkUranium a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I often trust AliEx more than Amazon these days. At least one of the two isn't pretending not to be what it is.

Plus Amazon has a long history of screwing over sellers. TL;DR if your product is actually successful, they'll make their own "Amazon Basics" version of your product, then deprioritize you (or even ban you over an excuse). They do this a lot. There's a lot more than just this, it's just an example.

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trollbridge a day ago | parent [-]

I trust Temu more than Amazon these days. Exactly what I ordered shows up, on or before the expected delivery date, and works.

I get NVMes from them now, 2.5G Ethernet switches, and lots of other random items for a fraction of a cost of playing the Amazon lottery.

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throw-the-towel a day ago | parent [-]

NVMes, and they're not fake? Your courage is impressive.

	▲	trollbridge 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Works fine. Around $40 for 256GB (not 250). It’s TLC, quite a bit faster on reads than everything else in that price range.

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rtkwe a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd say that's hard to judge from the top line sales numbers, their broad sales could remain fine even when they lose larger rare purchases if they're bringing in enough new customers that are fine with only buying the slop.

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leptons 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sales may not have declined, but returns have skyrocketed. I return at least as much stuff as I keep. Sometimes they tell me to just keep the crap because they know it's crap and it costs them more for me to return it than to just refund me and let me keep the crap thing.