The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews & Vanishing Brands

I stopped using Amazon for exactly these phony reviews and very crappy products. Now I try to buy American. If I can.

Hahahaha! Holy shit! That's actually a thing? The seller can request bad reviews being taken down? That's just horrific.

I wish there was a way on Amazon to search by country of origin.

This is informative and unfortunate, but not surprising at all.

@@joedirt1965 there is a browser extension that does something similar, and lets you see where items are being shipped from

I’ve noticed that this year. It’s bizarre. That never used to happen

This happens because they can add items to the page as options and those reviews are all lumped together. Then they delete the other item and it looks like the new one but with all the old reviews.
Amazon doesn't care at all about this and its extremely frustrating.

Good point !! A few years back I was in the market for a digital camera and looked at Amazon reviews and found at the price I could budget for and had great reviews. Curious, I read some of the reviews had the first 20 or so were foe this camera but then I saw reviews for bird seed and other TOTALLY non related items !! Amazon should be held accountable for illegal marketing practices.

Always read the reviews and check review images.

They add a cheap product as one of the options for £9.99 then the actual item is £49.99 does my head in!!

So true!

Honestly seems like a lot of what is on Amazon these days is just stuff that's been bulk purchased on AliExpress and resold on Amazon at a premium.

I think it's becoming a more expensive version of Temu. Filled with random named Chinese trash at high prices...

Slowly, I think they went that route before Ali

the products ARE from aliexpress

Wait until you realize, that sellers can request amazon to remove those ONE star reviews XD

@@zenguro aint no waaayy 💀💀💀

I always look for the most recent reviews!

Sellers are able to have Amazon yank reviews because the reviewers violate the "Community Guidelines" for writing a review. You can not complain about how long it took to get to your doorstep, how the seller jerked you around on a replacement, complain about where it was made, etc. You can only talk about the product. To get the best odds to make a 1 star review stick, laser focus on the essence of why the product sucks and write the review in one or two sentences of basic english(or other language that's relevant here, obviously). The goal is to make sure the arbitrator has to expend the least amount of mental energy to ascertain that no rule was violated when a seller contests a review. @@zenguro

Why even look at the 5 stars to begin with.. I know why I like the product I want to know why I won't like it. Products with no 1 star reviews are a pass.

They have a monopoly and pay now local rent or sales tax. They don't care it's basically a branch of the Chinese government destroying the country from the inside

There should be a class action law suit over Amazons entire deceptive review process. Same with Google over its play store and KRplus over fraud ads.

@@redguyphil1 most of the ads on KRplus are scams. KRplus and Google are the single greatest benefactors of the scam industry.

I was looking at something just yesterday,& the Great reviews were ALL for an Unrelated product!!! I’ve been “Wise” to Amazon’s BS for a long time!!! I have been researching everything from measuring spoons to garage freezers, to items for entertaining to cooking out at a fire pit, from gardening oldies & newbies, to preserving foods requiring different methods,& Anything related to Food & Cooking, plus I’m often asked by family & friends to research items they’re looking to purchase, the Best possible products, whether limited budget or not, best place to buy,& best deal on the product, as well as pertinent information gathered regarding the products!!! I’ve been doing this coming up on 10years now😵‍💫🫣, with monthly items sent to my daughter, in my quest to stock her kitchen with Everything tool & gadget she would need to grow, make/cook, entertaining needs, outdoor kitchen needs, & preserve the best ways for the items-No! I’m Not a Doomsdayer, I’m a Proud Old Lady who gardened, & cooked from scratch my entire life, avoiding as much of our tainted food supply as possible, whose daughter is Far Beyond My talents,& I want Her to have what I could only Dream of having in my kitchen & all things food related, as well as the Mind Boggling advances the internet has opened my eyes to, as well as the Endless items so easy to get, that were impossible to get, or not even invented back in the day!!! I’m on a Very limited budget, & doing big Gifting for b’days & holidays is too hard on me, so I can gift & better coordinate accordingly through the year, with it all starting with a Christmas Gift being a puzzle(sometimes 2!) a month, bc she Loves puzzles,& I was getting a few odds & ends she needed in her kitchen as well! SHE enjoyed the anticipation of her next surprise Sooo much, & asked if we could continue on with items she needed for her kitchen, & I had really enjoyed it as well, so it All began, & has continued on!!! I Highly recommend it for other parents of Grateful children, either getting started, or who Love to cook, but aren’t able or willing to buy for themselves over family, or plain just can’t afford the extra things needed to develop or expand their cooking skills & types of foods!!! The hidden Bonuses are Multiple, especially in this fast paced world!!!
Anyways!!! Nobody has mentioned 2 Very Important TELLs-reviews All being Dated within a month or so, whether currently or far back, with No other reviews, & a company running multiple products together in reviews!!! Lots of people don’t catch either, but the latter is missed by most, not noticing you have to look for which product the person bought & is reviewing, under their name!!! Too many don’t even bother looking beyond the ratings either, Or go to other websites, the company itself, or You Tube for reviews, & Don’t bother with price comparisons &/or Sales, or knowing that many times there’s offers of extra items when bought elsewhere!!! I also Highly recommend downloading the app to “Etsy”,& shopping there!!! If you aren’t already, whatever you may Think Etsy is, it’s No where Close to what it actually is!!! Yes! A Lot is Amazing Handmade items offered from talented people around the world, but there’s Sooo much Beyond That, with Vintage item Sellers, farmers, food makers, jewelers, & commercially made products as well, that you have Direct Communication with!!! And like with Amazon, you can make lists of items you are interested in purchasing, but With that, comes many who will offer you a discount, & you get immediate notifications on those items going on sale,& times of the sale’s ending!!! Plus you Are supporting Small Businesses!!!

You type like you shop at dollar Tree 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The goal of these platforms is not for users/customers to get what they want/need - the goal is for the platform to make as much money as possible by sponsoring and/or boosting certain listings. In that manner, Amazon and Netflix are working exactly as intended

@@Eclipseballer1994 It's too bad "Fast Eddie" Lampert destroyed Sears. (The Board let him do it).
It's what happens when you hire a non-retail guy to run a retailer (such as K-mart or Sears), and when you hire a non-football person to run a football team (Bengals)
I welcome anything that offers me way to filter out the "non-name" lookalike products on online retailers.

The problem is people accepting it.
Boycott this shit and stop buying from this disgusting organization!
And stop Chinese sellers!
They should be considered as funding a terrorist organization, since their government is exactly that!

Same with KRplus and reddit with not counting dislikes any more. The internet sucks now.

@@Eclipseballer1994 How is Amazon making money if people keep refunding stuff and leaving the platform?
You want to have as many clients possible and for those clients to spend as much as possible, and this behavior fails at both.

I bought flaxseed oil that intentionally has a puck of flaxseed in the bottom to make the bottle feel very heavy. Supposedly from Canada, but extremely scammy.

Honestly a smart move.

@@MushookieMan there needs to be a website to keep these scammers and their products in check

Why would you ever give them another red cent after that?

Was the shake sold by Amazon or a third-party seller? Usually products shipped AND sold by Amazon are legit, but with third-party sellers, you never know.

Yeah, I used to love Amazon(like 10 years ago), but have now been avoiding using them for years because everything has been getting worse from the website itself to the terrible customer service when you get screwed over by one of their sellers these days.

Taking a picture of a package not arriving is on another level.

And of course,"early life" explains why.

This explains a lot. Isn't the Amazon site a loss leader anyway? It seems like AWS is where they make their money.

I know about those sugar free Gummy bears. A friend of mine ate a LOT of them. The alcohol sugar are the problem. Lets put it this way, for days he was in hell on the toilet. He will never eat those again.😱 I was lucky I only had just a couple

This is really screwed up...
Ok ill see myself out

You considered thieving?

@@tonysheerness2427 You know that's not what they meant

How about someone crawling under a Silverado pickup truck, cutting the entire fuel fill hose (inner and outer hoses) in order to quickly remove the gasoline from the truck. Pickup is low on gas, I drove to the station, they gas went right out the bottom. Repair cost was $400 but I did it for under half and it was a PITA job.

It's screwed up.

They do this with Nike sweatpants so bad I started ordering them directly from Nike's website and just dealing with the hassle that that is

I did the same, but back in 2019. Nowadays if I want something, I just go directly to the manufacturer's site and buy from them (assuming I can't find it for sale in a store locally)
People have gotten too lazy/complacent about just going to one online shop to buy everything... similarly to how Walmart did the same thing with brick and mortar stores and their cheap, low quality items.

So, where do you shop instead? I often shop at Amazon because there is no reasonable alternative. If the choice is Amazon in 1-2 days or a retail store selling the exact same item at a higher price and with a long delay, it would be foolish not to buy from Amazon.

@@Dr.Schlitz
Except that Amazon product is going to have a much worse impact in the global economy and climate, which means it will negatively impact YOU, too.
And besides, you can often find the product cheaper elsewhere-or just don’t buy it at all! It’s amazing what you realize you don’t need when you learn to go without it.
That will save you money, and prevent exploitation of other people and the planet.

Me too, and because of the way they treat their workers.

I never stopped shopping on Amazon, I never started. I might have bought one item over 10 years ago on Amazon because I couldn't find it anywhere else and didn't know how evil the company was back then but that was about my first and last Amazon purchase ever.

This is extremely common. I have found numerous products on amazon where the reviews do not match the product being sold.

I've been doing Vine for a little bit now, I try to make sure I mention the name of the product I'm reviewing to avoid that issue. I don't think I've come across an item that's changed completely since my review, but I have had a few items disappear, occasionally before I even get them.

I think they just can't check every page for correct updates and the company sells similar products( kids telescope gets replaced with high priced version) , the AI would really need to be sensitive to detect that. Remember in the old days of ebay when you updated the product it actually was blocked and reviewed.

@@MAGAMAN I never buy without reading the reviews AND LOOKING AT THE DATE OF THE REVIEWS. And click on the reviewer. And click on others. Many times, supposedly multiple reviewers are all reviewing the same random items. If I can find that, Amazon certainly can. Straight 5 star reviews? Completely fake. There has to a decent amount of 4 stars. I find a lot of 1 star reviews to be done by idiots. 1 star, I received the wrong product. If it was shipped from Amazon, that's not the seller's fault. But, it counts in the count.

When habitually and deliberately screwing people over in the name of ever increasing profits (which, as a side note, the workers don't get a fair share of) becomes the default mode of operation, we should definitely have a talk about the downsides of the current way we do capitalism, or maybe even capitalism in general.

Who would have thought 20 years on that you'd rather shop ar HF than many other retailers!

Never bet your life on a horrible freight product.... oh like... jack stands. Saving a few bucks is not worth your life. @@mikefrachel8292

i fix power plants for a living and most of the people work with buy their tools from there. not because theyre great. theyre not, some of their tools are more dangerous than useful, but some of their things are worth it simply for the warranty. a lot of HARD jobs break any tool, and harbor freight has the most hassle free warranty.

Harbor freight has been doing really well too building lots of stores

@@mikefrachel8292 Well its either there or a Big Box store or Amazon. Not many dedicated Hardware stores left.

THIS. Yup, Newegg and other places have become a haven for scammers.

This is how the Video Game debacle of 1983 happened. The systems got flooded with shovel ware and it all collapsed.

​​@@ccoonansrI'm not sure how this is relevant. There's not gonna be a great silverware crash of 2024. 😂

I started noticing all the fake reviews over 10 years ago. I contacted Amazon to advise them that the reviews for some items I was interested in were totally fake. I was asked how I knew this and I told them because the review is not even about the specific product but of some other product totally. Since that time it has increased 100 fold. I no longer trust Amazon products as much of them are Chinese knockoffs…its truly sad how far our country has fallen!

Two words: Consumer Confidence. When customers can no longer be sure what they’re buying, consumers will lose confidence in the market and it will collapse. In a corrupt country like ours with a government that’s never seen a mega-merger it didn’t approve, we have more and more businesses that can’t afford to fail. It also means quality goods become harder to find because low quality goods flood the market. They arrange exclusivity deals with companies like Wal Mart and suddenly the shelves are flooded with low quality garbage all from one or two obscure companies. And because the store depends on those limited brands, they jack up the prices. I went to Wal Mart recently and couldn’t even get a Master Lock padlock. Only one or two brands were available, ugly low quality garbage and not even cheap! Another issue is some products- like the one in the video - are dangerous if they fail. It’s not just 6 bucks wasted, somebody’s house burns down! Again these types of market situations are not new - the government should be regulating against things like this. It’s the reason companies can’t be allowed to get too big. But all the checks and balances that once kept our country functioning have been “deregulated” by extremist, fanatical republicans (and I’m not against all republican ideals per say, some are necessary). But the modern Republican Party isn’t even conservative or republican- it’s a radical authoritarian oligarchy, which uses fear to get the poor and middle class to vote against their own interests, in favor of the rich.

This is happening to me right now. Ordered and item 4 days ago and it was supposed be here 2 days ago on the day it was supposed to be delivered by 10pm I got a notification at 8pm saying it's delayed for weather until the 13 2 extra days.

That happened to me once, but i blame ups for that more than amazon. Either way i got a $200 mattress for free. I didnt even ask for the discount, amazon customer service lady just said fuck it, its a refund, after waiting 3 weeks before it arrived. Ups sucks ass. Ive never had a good experience with them.

none cause i doubt anyone with a functioning brain would buy from amazon.

This is extremely common and infuriating. Even name brands do this.

I have noticed this too. They are allowed to get away with anything.

I saw that on some Higher priced items as well...some ratings didn't matched the product. I have the feeling they sell a cheap good product, update the product page...that update is actually the placing a cheap product with a fully new high priced product.

Another thing i hate about amazon is they don't display reviews per product, they show reviews for that specific product page. Some products have say 3 different colors, red, green and blue. If you then click on say the red one for example, you'll still have all the reviews for the other colors even when they are irrelevant to what you are buying. Obviously colors dont really matter but when these small no name brands do this with products that are completely different from one another, its annoying. You'll see 1k reviews but then 2 of those would actually be for the one you are trying to buy.

A lot of 1 star ones are just idiots though - "product was fine but arrived late" types of idiots. 2 and 3 stars are more helpful I agree, but then you're still creating a bias, are you really going to buy something where you only consider 3 stars to be valid? You really have to look at all the reviews.

absolutely, and the diction and coherence of those reviews count as well.

Only thing I would ever buy from Amazon is shit that can't be found elsewhere (for example, there's that one book I've wanted to get that the (independent) author only sells there).
The rest I'll find on better, more specializedplatforms, or just by going to the store myself.

Meh, idk if I agree with that logic. A lot of the negative reviews are BS too. I've had great items that people were crying about.

@@highdesertbiker Better a false negative than a false positive here

It might even be the same seller using multiple brand names to crowd out other vendors.

And all the sellers probably work out of the same warehouse...in China!

It's not "like" or "might", that's exactly what's happening. They create dozens of different brand names but everything is produced in the one factory and sent to you by the one company.

That's not a issue, that's literally the best warning sign to not buy it. It's way harder to spot fake reviews than this.

Everybody wants to be a drop seller for easy cash nowadays.

That's so obnoxious! Especially when Amazon singles out some of those sellers as featured "small businesses" and makes them out as some little mom and pop operating out of their garage. I completely understand that being a small business doesn't require you to manufacture every part, and there's certainly nothing wrong with making a business by selling other companies' stuff, but don't celebrate them for rebranding the same junk 17 other storefronts have done the exact same with.

@@myfavoriteviewer306 I wonder how Amazon defines "small business"?
I ordered some welding equipment from Miller Electric.
It was marked "This order supports a small business."
Miller Electric is owned by ITW a fortune 500 company.
If that counts as a small business, the phrase has lost all meaning.

They are Chinese!

@@prissx784 Not true. Some are Vietnamese or Indian lol.

That’s totally a thing! I only review items that I’ve been critical to (thus explaining the bad rating), but the stuff I,ve like I just give a good rating. Just found out most of my reviews were took down. Some from many years ago.

Thanks for the heads up. I don’t order really anything from them anyway. They used to deliver things within a day or so. Not anymore. You can’t believe anything people post for reviews, even on YELP, Ebay, These companies just don’t want anyone to criticize them in any way.

Me too and they banned me for life.

Happened to me a couple of times. I reviewed a ratchet belt (gave it 2 stars) where the buckle kept coming apart from the belt. They said the review did not meet their standards but wouldn't say why.

I did an honest bad review and have gotten 6 emails from them. They are trying to send me their shitty product for free to take down my video. Last message
"Hello, Could you minnd reply us????????
Please believe, communication is the best way to solve problem.
I am lookinng forward to your reply.
Merry Christmas.

probably more than that, they probably have all kinds of Chinese factory toxins like fibreglass and lead

It probably isn't (False Advertisement... Any law in that field really).
Problem is....
In the US alone, heavy Amashit Lobbying would just make any lawsuit/LE action go NOWHERE until people forgot, then dumped away.
In EU, their nobility has the focus elsewhere, namely do anything to stop any group right of Joseph Stolin from firther getting power in their member states, than focus on hetting this BS out the way.
Amashit led by Bezzos will just throw wads and wads of moolah to not do what should be their MINIMUM obligations for their own service platform

I noticed the same thing on many products.
It's very common that reviews are for a product that is not the one you are looking at.

So that's why I sometimes can tell when reading a review that it's for a completely different product! I just mistakenly had given Amazon the grace of assuming their platform had a glitch! Evil greed.

I don't buy the products with reviews that are mismatched.

You can read about this in the amazon seller forums daily. It's been going on for over 7 years now, with Amazon never plugging the holes. People speculate that amazon employees are in on the take and change product pages for the scammers that sell such fraudulent products. There is so much of it going on now that the entire platform should be shut down as a public hazard.

If you’re not buying that stuff from like DigiKey or Allied Electronics or Newark or another dependable distributor; you’re really doing it wrong, sorry. For a mainstream business like yours, buy brand name stuff from authorized distributors only. And ignore Amazon.

@@absurdengineering it's true they shouldn't have bought for amazon, but that doesn't take away from the validity of their criticism.

😯😡

But they r making money so they don't care, flat out

This is COMMON on Amazon! The counterfeiters are rampant!

It's Amazon's AI that bans you. It's automatic and you have no recourse and no way to find out why you were banned. The AI isn't very good and we get banned for leaving honest reviews. Now I return items and use GDPR to make sure Amazon isn't keeping a little black book on me 😝

you know you can at least get an idea of how fake the reviews for a product are by search into a fake review analyzer on Google

What if you were banned for a good reason? I mean, am I to trust the word of a guy who got kicked out? LOL!!

@@admiralkrankandhismightyba158 I mean it doesn't really matter or change anything if you believe me or not...would be a very bizarre thing to lie about though. Especially in a KRplus comments section... It's not like Louis can restore it for me.

I had a review blocked once. All I said was that might have been questionable is that you could actually use a phone with the product it claimed it couldn’t use, which is a positive thing.

Most Radio Shack products were "custom manufactured" by Tandy in Korea!

Even auto parts stores are a little dodgy these days, and I have found that they often lack generic items that I want or need

Cant even trust them really. There are a good number of brands I know of that have good to great products but because of either rumored actions of the companies or their stances people will bad mouth the companies and products. The idea of "User Reviews" is good, until you realize humans will lie and cheat the system just to spite someone else, which makes the system effectively worthless.

Even those are often paid/botted by a competitor.

I don't read 5-star reviews. lol I'm close to not reading the 4-star reviews now.
And depending on the item, I don't get it at Amazon, if it delays my project, so be it.

Yeah it's everywhere also in indonesia here , to the point if I really like the product I write a ridiculous funny review but a genuine satisfied with the product just so others know this is from real human real customer experience not bot / not paid reviewer etc

Some of the negative reviews are put up by nefarious competitors.
In general, I'd skip both the 1-star and 5-star reviews, unless they looked very plausible.

underrated comment ftw! thank you so much for this!!

Thanks for the tip.

Thanks for the advice sensei!

Thanks for the extension names!

Cultivate has a bunch of very obviously botted 5star reviews, and the rest don't fill me with confidence.

The CHEAP products are what most people CAN afford! "Cheap" has always been popular. Most of the most popular cars have also been the cheapest!

Imagine getting empty envelopes or bubble packaging because Amazon shippers didn't know how to seal the package to the begin with LOL!

Amazon to me feels more and more like a chinese bazar.

@@Tazmanian_Ninjaso many weird off brands

@@Tazmanian_Ninja A more expensive version ofTemu!

Yeah started with Amazon what 10+ years ago, never had an issue, really have not ordered anything for the last 2-3 years.
I just took a look around there thanks to this video and was surprised at how few brands I did recognize. I could not find many of the brands I had bought in the past.
If it wasn't for the Movies and Music channels I probably would drop them. I even noticed that the fast shipping isn't what it use to be either, some prime items are weeks out and orders in the same package over 25 dollars were free but if they came in separate shipments there is a charge in some cases.
They use to be cheaper than retail now they are the same price or more in some cases.

This is the way to navigate Amazons bullshit sellers.

For popular products, 1 star review is a good way to target bomb competition product. 2-3 stars are where you see actual users putting complaints to product.

Yep and if it’s a recent 1 or 2 star review believe it because the product is usually trash 🗑️.

same ! its saved me from at leas 3-4 bad purchase

@@hermezkonradtrue…. I go to reviews and click most recent.. if shows vine I don’t buy it if not I consider the 10 most recent

💩party sellers were forced on Amazon by the Obama government

All retail sites allow 3rd party sellers. I only buy stuff sold by or shipped buy amazon. I am not going to risk buying crap from a 3rd party seller. There are select items that I will buy.

@@kameljoe21 Same here.The only third part sellers I buy from are the ones that are run by the actual company that makes the product.

@@BrooklynBalla Yeah unless you know if that company is legit its super hard. The last thing I bought from a 3rd party seller was a set of crochet towels from some lady/company named deb something. Being that its a gift for a neighbor it was a risk and since they are US based its not a bad deal.
One item I tried to buy I never got because the seller went inactive. I may still try and order it again yet doubt they are active. Yet amazon has not taken the item or seller down.

Bought a waterproof apron for work. It had a powder on it that gave me a bad rash. The seller? Chinese. No surprise there 😑

I ordered an electric massager online like what my barber uses. It was clearly used and reboxed.

I ordered 'plastic bird spikes' that were installed and returned, then sold to me. Like 30 feet of the stuff. mounting screws still stuck in it. i was not allowed to leave a review with the picture. I kept it as it was re-usable.

That's disgusting. Probably a return scam, even. We cancelled Prime earlier this year. It's not worth it anymore.

I have run into this problem increasingly. I have received several products which are obviously and clearly used - at best - counterfeit at worst. I have a healthy Amazon ordering history with limited returns so they're usually pretty good about making it right, but the fact that this has become as prevalent a strategy by Amazon sellers - without any pushback from Amazon itself - has further driven me to consider Amazon as essentially a slightly better Temu.

Did it suck?

same with molex, anderson etc etc. they cost money but they just work, which is 3 times woth the money.

Wago as well. You can buy some non name brand Wago and throw them in your wall but when your hot wire slips out while you push an outlet in and turn your breaker on to a pop you know why you shou;d've paid the extra $15 for Wagos.

Yeah, connectors for hobby stuff I buy new old stock on eBay or direct from an authorized distributor.

@@majstealth Deutch connectors are another really expensive connector, and there are starting to be some really convincing fakes available. It really comes down to "if you know, you know" when it comes to this stuff. I wish more youtubers would talk about this stuff, because the vast majority of people out there don't know what they're buying. Louis is only one man, he has only so much reach.

@@AtracBreezy Wago are worthless. I hate them as they do suck. Wire nuts are still the best when it comes to joining to 2 wires.

Yeah, you see a bunch of companies with "names" you can't even pronounce and then try to make sense of the descriptions which often leave out important specs, you know it's crap from China.

May I point out the obvious? Shop in person...? They're not even cheap for garbage now.

Wow I am AMAZED that Louis characterizes HOME DEPOT as carrying quality products! No! NO NO NO! They carry mostly Chinese Garbage themselves! Thye wiped out the mo & pop corner hardware stores which carried quality American hardware by fooling customers into buying this cheap Chinese Garbage! If you buy a toilet part at home depot, GOOD LUCK GETTING IT TO LAST ONE YEAR. If you buy a faucet at home depot, GOOD LUCK GETTING IT TO LAST ONE YEAR! I learned my lesson and started buying direct from North Carolina, until even North Carolina (Wolverine Brass) was destroyed by cheap chinese shit products !! Wolverine Brass, in business for 100 years, destroyed by ONE-YEAR china-brass, which costs 5x more, isn't ceramic, because wolverine lasts 30 years+ and ONE-YEAR china-brass lasts exactly as long as the name says it does ... Now "American Standard" is 100% chinese-owned, and it's total shit!

​@grittykitty50 the product names are also often more like a paragraph of keywords when they're from China. Versus a simple description. Cause the product info is where the details go.

Etsy has this problem now too.

You always have another option: Don't buy on Amazon in the first place!

An unlocked phone means it will accept any SIM card. If your SIM worked on your home network but not when on vacation, that's a roaming issue or a cellular radio band issue and has nothing to do with the phone being unlocked. You either needed to change the settings to enable roaming, make sure your account is set up correctly with your carrier, or make sure your phone has the right cellular radio bands needed for use where you're going to be. Unlocked doesn't mean it will automatically work everywhere, especially if you're traveling internationally.

@@dwboston1Bro, the phone literally said "Network locked"

@reasonitician Because you didn't have service on the network you were trying to use. An unlocked phone refers to the ability to put any active SIM into it. Locked phones are locked to the cellular provider that sells them (i.e. phones that AT&T sells directly are SIM locked to AT&T) If it worked on your cell network at home and then didn't when you were roaming, either your cell carrier doesn't have a roaming agreement where you were traveling, your phone lacked the cellular radio bands to access the network where you were, your account wasn't set up for roaming, or roaming needed to be turned on in the phone settings. Unlocked doesn't mean your phone magically works everywhere automatically.
What is your cell provider at home and where were you traveling?

@@dwboston1Bro, you've written a god damn novel trying to explain what's going on, despite being so ungodly uninformed that it hurts. You need to actually read what people say.
The phone literally said "I am rejecting this SIM because I'm locked to a network". It's not a radio issue, it's not a roaming issue, it's a fucking anti-feature that should never have existed in the first place.

I see this all the time on Amazon and it drives me crazy. I'll be reading the reviews and realize the reviews are for a different model or sometimes a completely different item altogether. I wish there was an easy way to report this.

This is annoying af…….I never understood why this was happening.

This bro. Mice, Headesets, Laptops, SSD --- They just update to the newest model and throw it under the old model reviews. But the new models are often of lower quality. This should not be allowed. Period.

Profit is all that matters. Honesty, integrity, ethics, and quality are for Chumps! 💪😎✌️ Ya gotta cheat people if ya wanna get ahead! Mo' munneh means mo' munneh. "Customers" are a dime a dozen. Health is wealth, might is right.

Yep seen that before.

Another ali express

My experience to date is excellent customer service and delivery. However the products have of late been so poor quality, I hardly use Amazon now., and do not trust the reviews.

@@SalamHerbs-db5nt Or "Wish". The problem is we are making it easier for the Chinese manufacturers to sell their "knockoffs" by purchasing this Chinese Garbage. President Trump knew this and this is why he made harsh trade deals and penalties for the Chinese. It made it more difficult for the Chinese to sell their garbage at such a low price to Americans.
A customer could see they could buy a name-brand product for just a small amount more than the Chinese Garbage because of tighter trade deals with China. Once Trump was out of office, Biden and the Democrats rolled back those restrictions and penalties on trade with China and once again, the cheap China crap was "Cheap" in price, once again.
China even has its own warehouses in different places in California so they can "beat" the requirements of things being "sold" from American companies vs direct from China. Basically, the game is rigged against American companies trying to manufacture and sell quality products. Oddly, many of these quality products even come from the same China manufacturers making the cheap garbage the difference is in the quality control on what the name-brand products demand with their product vs the cheap garbage China knockoffs.

No, Amazon has turned into K-Mart. Much worse! Their fate will be the same.

@@SalamHerbs-db5nt bingo!

Had this happen to me yesterday, a loose book without any protection in an oversized box with other products. Of course it was damaged!

Had this happen with a first edition Clive Cussler book last month. The book was loose in a larger cardboard box and the paper jacket was scuffed and torn at the corner so not acceptable for someone who collects first editions.@@arnvonsalzburg5033

If you try to filter it returns even more crap. I do remember when searching for something was EASY, now you would try to look for an item and would show you even things that are not even related.
A few weeks ago I bought a "cheap" heater and it had good reviews and all, still I told my fiancée that probably was going to be not very good, turns out it's even worse, and we only kept it because welp, we need it and don't have time to look for another one. I wanted to buy a really cheap and crappy one we ended spending the double and the thing feels like it's going to fall apart any second, the plastic is worse than something someone could 3dprint... still we kept it. Amazon makes less and less sense and it makes aliexpress being a better option because at least there things are cheap and it's the same shitty quality.

@@kotarldoI’ve noticed this too.

Excellent point. These days, all the search engines have become crap because sellers utilize some sorts of search optimization softwares that make sure their product shows up in search results if it has even the faintest relation to what you searched for.

when shopping online in canada you will find that home depot and walmart are often just repackaging that same garbage at a higher price. but you can also find stuff on the home depot shelf (like DAP spray foam insulation) at half the price of amazon sellers...

XiXiPi owns America. When 2049 arrives, you will truly understand!

I remember doing a lot of reviews on Amazon where some were reward reviews but there was one seller who offered more money to make my 4 star review to a 5 star review where I refuse because I want people to know about the fixable flaws so I put 4 stars to show there was something wrong.
I think I did about 100 to 200 reviews on Amazon which is a lot for someone on a tight budget and post about the flaws on the cheap stuff to keep it last longer for limited budget people.

NATO's secret armies well worth a read of how America took over Europe and fkd everything.

Bad books are not a new thing... especially when it comes to electronics and computers. That goes back to before the first days of personal computers in the early 70's. Back before then we ordered from places like Allied Electric; Burnstein Appleby; Newark Electronics; and yes ... Radio Shack. Times change. You must continuously pay attention. And buying branded products usually turns out to be pretty stupid. In fact, you can buy Bell and Howell now and get awful stuff, because they went bankrupt and somebody bought their name. Pay attention!

My sister is a writer and gets very upset when someone leaves a 4-star review. That's how fucked the rating system is.

I eventually gave up and used Libby to borrow from local libraries.

The only brand on Amazon you can trust that isn't a huge name is Silicon Power. They're still a name brand, but they have SSD's for dirt cheap compared to other name brands.

Local guys are too lazy and dumb to do DELIVERY. THAT is the fasting-growing market sector and they COULD do it locally with a small solar-recharged electric van, but their brains are too narrow-minded to do it. "We always ... We never ...."

We have an amazing hardware store in the next county over that has hardware, Hallmark cards, collectibles and their prices competitive and quality is #1. No more Amazon junk.

Only problem? They're small. I go there first b/c I gotta walk my dog, anyway. And they have cookies for them. Or call and ask, which is always nice to have a guy who knows his butt from a hole in the ground.

Small businesses are AWFUL. We should stop supporting them. They are SUCH a rip off. All they have is the SAME products on Amazon, or at Walmart, at ten times the price! Rip off. I don't know why anyone would support those over-priced hoity-toity places, perhaps it's like the old saying goes - ''a fool and his money are soon parted''.

I am AMAZED that Louis characterizes HOME DEPOT as carrying quality products! No! NO NO NO! They carry mostly Chinese Garbage themselves! They wiped out the mom & pop corner hardware stores which carried quality American hardware by fooling customers into buying this cheap Chinese Garbage! If you buy a toilet part at home depot, GOOD LUCK GETTING IT TO LAST ONE YEAR. If you buy a faucet at home depot, GOOD LUCK GETTING IT TO LAST ONE YEAR! I learned my lesson and started buying direct from North Carolina, until even North Carolina (Wolverine Brass) was destroyed by cheap chinese garbage products !! Wolverine Brass, in business for 100 years, destroyed by ONE-YEAR china-brass, which costs 5x more, isn't ceramic, and wolverine lasts 30 years+ and ONE-YEAR china-brass lasts exactly as long as the name says it does! Recently I went to ace hardware & bought a nut & bolt and the nut just slides up and down the bolt, no need to twist it !! China Garbage Strikes Again!!

The filters and sorting features get worse and worse every year. I get all these crap sponsored results popping up and the filters and sorting don't really work very well anymore. I want to find what I want to find.
I'm buying stuff from you Amazon. You're already making money off me. Stop making me sift through a bunch of sponsored products that I don't want and are garbage in an attempt to make more money.

Agreed. Here's an example. I open up incognito tab to get results unbiased by my past searches and profile. I search for statistics textbook and I get 7,446 results. They should all have prices, right?
I sort from low to high and now get 642 results. Where did all the other books go? Now I sort from high to low and I get 688 results. WTF Amazon? Makes no sense!!
Now I choose bestsellers and I get 3290 results. So, you're telling me you have 3,290 statistics textbooks books that are bestsellers? This is obviously BS. Now I go back to the default sort of "featured" and I have 7,448 results, 2 more than I started with, btw.
This is just one example of how messed up sorting has gotten.

@@RA-lu6mb
I'm starting to mistrust them in other ways too.
This may be paranoia, but I've noticed that if I wishlist something, or even check it out, then want to purchase later, the price has mysteriously gone up. I know flight companies used to do that, so when I travelled, I'd check prices logged into an account on Firefox, then if I wanted to purchase, I'd use a different account on Chrome.
On Amazon, I bookmarked a guitar gizmo a month ago, wanted to finally buy it last week - it had gone up 25 quid!
I found it at the lower price with a music company I'd never checked out before.
It may be paranoia - we have inflation, and the holiday season, so prices may naturally rise. But 'surge' pricing is becoming widespread - it's normal on Uber, and I think Air BnB - so why not Amazon? If you have shown an interest beforehand, why not stick a couple of Pounds on it and hope the customer doesn't care enough to start looking for a cheaper version.

You also get many many less hits when even using just the "low to high" filter, sometimes even reducing it to just 10% of the stock search, which is asinine. Unfortunately there's not much to do when you live in certain countries and local stores (even online) are literally trying to scalp you far more than any scalper on Amazon, or don't have any products.

Unfortunately this is true and there will be no lawsuit to fix it because the Government in whole is on the side of destroying the market. Every cheap piece of junk we buy is a gift from the U.SA. to China. When China can ship something to the USA for pennies, but it costs American citizens a fortune to send something across the states and even into Canada, you know that the Government is not on your side.

Can prove the random bit... can't count how many times I have searched stuff to get completely different results for what should be insignificant changes to the query or order of keywords. Or where you can try the same query and get different results on the same day...

​@dragonridertechnologies absolutely.....guess what....through all of this nonsense ......surprisingly initially then not surprisingly.....it's all still extremely well worth the nightmare for amazon. ......it could be worse and amazon will still rock and roll.......I mean......one word......volume

Right it takes forever to find name brand these days

They're not random. They're organised in a way that makes Amazon the most money. Making you doomscroll and spend more time on th site is a part of that.

That's not random. That's by design.

I had this same exact experience. It's absolute bullshit

I don't even bother leaving reviews on Amazon anymore. It used to be a good system, customers helping out other customers with their choices. But now it's just pointless. Once they blocked an honest 5-star review of mine for unspecified reasons, probably because their bots or whoever third-world employees weren't able to understand what I had written (in my native language). That's where I decided to not waste my time anymore with writing reviews.

Besides that, they read the reviews, so BAD reviews never get shown.

*Solid advice. Thank you.*

💯 that is what I started doing after watching a video on the Torque Test Channel of them trying to buy a tool that was supposed to be in stocks. They recommend pick up in store online ordering. If what I'm after is in stock, it takes about 30 minutes for the order to be ready for pickup.

I live in Australia and I also noticed there is a seller that is called "Amazon Commercial Sales". They sell branded products.

Bingo. I knew a guy who made a decent living selling yoga mats, then Amazon went to the same factory & produced an "Amazon Basics" version & undercut his prices. He couldn't afford to compete.

Amazon is copying the Chinese.

most of us are buyng crap based on he price so i dont see the issue. assuming most things we actually buy are crap then give it me cheaop, its the same thing anyway 9 times out of 10. If its quality one wants then you buy the brand you want and the cheap stuff is irrelevant.

@@harrysibben7583 In America it is called Amazon Business Sales. I have an account on Amazon Business Sales and one on just regular Amazon. I have noticed even my search results for the same things are different. It's like they know that people in "The Trades" or I think you call them, "Tradies", know the difference between quality products and Chinese Garbage LOL.
However, if I scroll down low enough, I will encounter the Chinese Crap on the Amazon Business Sales as well. It's just the more quality name-brand products are listed first in the "search". But if no one is selling the quality brand-name products then all you get in the search results is Chinese Garbage LOL.
Other websites have this same issue, especially Walmart with their sellers outside of just Walmart. In America, they call them "Pro-Sellers" or 3rd Sellers". Basically, they are doing the Amazon trick and allowing other sellers to sell thru their website on products Walmart may not carry OR Walmart does carry and Walmart is so much cheaper on the price you will want to order it from Walmart LOL.
It all stems down to sh*tty search systems within those websites. They don't give you the option of filtering out the garbage even though in some instances you should be able to filter the garbage out. Same thing with Ebay where people are just inserting keywords in their descriptions and thus their no-brand name garbage gets included with the quality products.

I think one big help, people need to list the product names and costs in their reviews. Too many give blank 5 star reviews making it extremely easy to switch the product around. If you have 1000 five star reviews for a cheap plushie toy under a Nintendo switch listing people are gonna see it for the scam it is. Rather than 5000 nameless descriptionless 5 stars.

don't buy shit that doesn't accept returns. Not sure why this whole thread is acting like Amazon is an epidemic of bullshit. I'm probably well past a thousand things I ordered from Amazon last year. Only remember a couple things that were maybe questionable. Sent them back. It's really not a problem at all. Like, a zero issue.

If u read the reviews it would be pretty obvious 😉

Google and Facebook do this to an extent too and it’s scary and impressive.
No such thing as privacy anymore it seems

Wow that sounds illegal as hell, they need to get sued!!
They cutoff my ability to review products years ago…….despite writing many lengthy honest reviews that would help many people determine the experience of using various products. Now corrupt vendors are running amok censoring people who will not put up with their bullshit and customers can no longer talk to each other, which was one of the best parts of the reviews!
At this point I watch several product reviews on KRplus, I no longer solely trust what is written on Amazon given their actions over the years and poor censorship.
I remember in a comment section about cars, some Chinese company was shipping rocks to customers in a box who ordered brake sets. Because the shipping and return times were so long, customers wouldn’t be able to secure refunds. You can’t make this shit up!! 😂😂

@@sleepykittyMMD By commenting here, you've already lost a lot of privacy. We're beholden to the devices and service we use, and it's our fault

To be devils advocate on the rights to the product bit; many fools fail to read and understand their business contracts before signing and then try to blame the other party for being shady after the fact.

I've been a consulting software engineer for 48 years working virtually entirely on top-tier projects for companies like Intel (the first digital video to ever run on PCs), Bell Labs, AT&T, Mayo Clinic (sequencing SARS-CoV-2 genomes), NASDAQ, the NYSE, & half of the major banks & financial institutes on Wall Street (as well as a stint with the alphabet intel agencies on cyberwarfare with a TS//SCI (Code Word) clearance). Although I just retired for the 3rd time at 75, Amazon has been trying to get me to work for them for a rate well into 3 figures an hour for the past 3 years. I refuse to work for any company that has a customer-hostile & worker-hostile corporate culture & will always take a cut in my rate to work for companies with integrity looking for quality systems. American for-profit businesses' software quality has dropped from the top 3 in 2000 to outside of the top 25 (and the money they pay so-called "senior software engineers" is a third of what they paid in the '90s except for small, special systems that truly do need competent programmers like the AWS cloud project they wanted to contract me for. It's website & search algorithms would get you flunked out of a freshman Computer Science class. Jenny Lawson, author of the hilarious book "Furiously Happy," has a website, theblogess.com, where she posts the most bizarre items Amazon suggests would be of interest to her every day. I always get a good laugh out of what their learning-disabled algorithms pick out for me. Bras & romance novels? I'm male & don't cross-dress (or I would have married a woman my own clothes size 😁).

My rule is 'if it really doesn't matter then I can buy it on Amazon', if it is important at all, then I go to a more reputable site, preferably one dedicated to one product line. There are a few exceptions, but they're only ones where the vendor or manufacturer is well known, e.g. a reputable 'brand name'. In that case I might order from Amazon, or might not, depending on convenience. But ordering anything from Amazon these days entails a degree of risk, if for no other reason then due to decline in packaging quality. The less a 'stupidly basic commodity' the item is, the greater the risk. Sadly Amazon has gone downhill badly the past few years.

Don't remember the last time I bought a book or music. This is why we have libraries :) Rip city lol

The fact that there is so much Amazon exclusive stuff these days is also an issue.

Amazon’s bread & butter is servers hosting websites and the Feds. AWS hosts all the government data.

Most like to rail on Jeff Bezos, but Amazon's been in the dumps since Andy Jassy became chief.
A look into Andy Jassy and his early life should tell you the key things about him.

Oh no not Sears 😂

Yeah, that price switch crap is bizarre! I almost never rebuy anything I've bought just out of spite because they always raise the price thinking you'll rebuy it anyway. Mf'ers!

Easy fix. Put any likely item in your cart, then resume search. You need to outwit them.

I saw a video explaining this. To cut down on this problem, Amazon required sellers to have a trademarked company name. So what's the easiest way to get a trademark? Register a random collection of letters that nobody will even come close to having registered.

Lol, that is so true!

That explains why new drugs hitting the market sound like they're named after sci-vi villains and the planets they live on.

You mean you don't trust a genuine Chingbo brakepad in your car?

@@ItsQueeferSutherland most "brands" on Amazon are now like "Asnyaoygagoaxxanezlevx". It's literally like somebody collapsed and hit their head on the keyboard.

Etsy too has begun to destroy itself. It used to be that you could sell only things you made or items over 20(?) years old. You'd be a fool now if you thought Etsy was still following this rule. I see so much that had to have been imported from a low-wage country. And yet Etsy doesn't care.

They doubled-down after banning reviews for silly reasons. Then they banned email login confirmation and require smart phone numbers to be harvested.

China rocks. Not their fault. 100% amazon’s fault. Thousands of shady, scammy people in the USA as well. The platform is the one who bears responsibility.

I still found really good stuff around that era, but agree that’s where the dominoes started to fall.

Why does @riy0h's comment say 4 replies (presumably 5 now that I am replying) but only one (maybe 2 now that I am replying) replies show up? What is KRplus blocking?

You'd be equally mortified of the power strips being sold at Home Despot, Lowes and Walmart. They're all built down to a cost and often have bare connections like that inside them.

The item ID switcharoo is so insanely common lately, feels like 1/4th or so of the items I look at on Amazon are sold on top of some spoofed ID that had a good rating.

Some products you’ll look at the reviews and it’s all for a completely different product! They can just keep the listing with the good reviews, change the title & picture and everything to a new product, and that’s evidently A-OK.

@@AlchemicSoul That's a common theme across basically all of the online "marketplaces". The seller will put a multi-item listing and have the cheapest item in the listing as the front-runner to get page views.

Same here. Amazon is getting greedy. All those sponsored products are being paid for by the seller. I just automatically pass all that crap up.

The internet has become nothing but sponsored CHINESE garbage.

That's because, as Corey Doctorow figured out when studying Amazon's monopolistic tactics, half of Amazon's search results are ads (with the first page being *entirely sponsored* results)

To prevent theft retail stores must move back to over the counter sales as it was done for centuries.

@@dmitryk7320 The problem with over-the-counter sales is long lines and waiting, which discourages customers from shopping there in the first place.

Go back to the way winn Dixie (or Piggly wiggly?) used to do it- have everything BEHIND the counter, when somebody wants something u go get it for them.
😅😅there..ur welcome!😅😅

@@ghoulbuster1obvious troll is obvious.

The way those little fasteners get stolen is at the checkout. The little baggie nuts and bolts are specialty items costing $1.50 - $3 sometimes. So they take them out of the baggie and go up to the register. "huh whats this thing?" "I'm not really sure, it was in the hardware isle". Rather than going to look for it they ring up some other nut or bolt that costs 5 cents.

Lol it’s a major addiction

Spend money with your local small businesses as much as possible, it's good for your community, and that's good for you!

There are about 3 places to shop online now; eBay, Walmart and Amazon. And in town there is Big Box stores. All the small shops out of business.

@@gizzyguzzi Yes, very true. Lockdowns helped in destroying small to medium enterprises a great deal, whilst at the same time helped large online market places like Amazon immensely! A huge win-win for the Parasitic Elite.

There are a few mom n pop stores in my area. As far as the online ones, I'd have to go back to ebay, between all 3

I think this is what Amazon has turned into, a quick way for overseas companies and drop-ship creators to make a buck off perceived value.

I was UPSET and REPULSED... stfu and go support your mom's friend with her mediocre goods.

Nice yeah I cancelled my prime membership to force myself to only buy a few tiny select things from amazon and wait just wait for the free shipping.

I've been asked by a handful of people, some friends, some bosses, to leave fake reviews. They said their competition does it. I just say "OK" and don't leave it. I hate doing things like that.

Family asking you to lie is always a bad thing to do.

Exactly, I refuse to upgrade my iphone until absolutely mandatory (complete loss) and I'll probably still buy used or get a hand-me-down.

@@girohead used all the way, I don't buy those ridiculously shabby designed three or four bay rtx4090's that break the pcb without proper support. I'm not surprised there's a crowd of snake-oil salesmen that loves this garbage. AMD's newest CPU only supports half of the pci-e lanes as my older intel processor. So essentially, if you buy a good motherboard for Ryzen, half of what you plug in will not work.

Rubbermaid tubs used to be very flexible and bulletproof. But now they are made from cheap hard plastic that cracks if any flexing force is applied to them. They are just like Sterilite containers that way.

This is why I love shopping at thrift stores. You can find vintage household goods in great condition for less than the price of newer, lower quality stuff. Of course, shopping at thrift stores is hit-or-miss. But they're great if you enjoy the treasure hunt aspect of it.

I bought a Craftsman toolbox from Amazon once. It was made of plastic and I knew that when I bought it, but I assumed it would be thick and rugged. When I received the toolbox, I couldn't believe how cheaply made it was. it looked like a toy toolbox. The plastic was thin and it was warped so much, you couldn't even close the lid properly. The metal clasp was so cheap it bent when you tried to close it, and the "Craftsman" brand was printed on a paper sticker that was slapped on the front of the toolbox. Of course, there were nothing but 4-star reviews for it, so reviews are utterly worthless, and even if you buy "brand name" stuff from Amazon, it doesn't mean you're going to get anything of quality.

Sometimes it's even dangerous, like the new Pyrex being non oven-safe. So many unnescessary accidents happened because people mistrust the brand.

This just happened with the wal mart (George) t shirts. They increased the price a dollar and now they're made in Haiti and they suck.

This isn't a solution! This can be very dangerous depending on said product!

My favorite is when you buy a crappy Chinese product for, say 40 dollars. Then you get a card in the mail offering you a 40 dollar Amazon gift card to leave a 5 star review. I've had this not once, twice, but four times now.

Sometimes those "no name" products are actually very good. You're buying much the same stuff more directly from the Chinese manufacturer. Rather than paying a local middle-man to mark up the price.
But it's basically the Wild West. The reviews can't be trusted. And you never quite know what you're getting, since the brands, products, and listings are constantly changing.

They do that because of all the "earth conscious people." Returning products mean more emissions, by having you keep the product it's a way to say that Amazon delivered a package with low to no cost of emissions and the leads them to being "carbon neutral".

@@Ryashon01 That sure sounds nice anyways.

Fyi, Walmart "Super tech" (crap) oil is made by Valvoline or Quaker State (depending on which refinery is closer). So Valvoline and Quaker State oil is CRAP! LOL

Oh actually you can criticize brands on Amazon… just not rich/chinese brands as they have amazon’s direct support. Mom n pop brands, american small business and niche brands get all the bad reviews listed even if they are a mistake. 😂

Amazon and “honest reviews” don’t vibe too well with Amazon. 😂
They cutoff my ability to review products years ago…….despite writing many lengthy honest reviews that would help many people determine the experience of using various products. Now corrupt vendors are running amok censoring people who will not put up with their bullshit and customers can no longer talk to each other, which was one of the best parts of the reviews!
At this point I watch several product reviews on KRplus, I no longer solely trust what is written on Amazon given their actions over the years and poor censorship.
I remember in a comment section about cars, some Chinese company was shipping rocks to customers in a box who ordered brake sets. Because the shipping and return times were so long, customers wouldn’t be able to secure refunds. You can’t make this shit up!! 😂😂

You can, but you need to use weasel-words to do it.

@@TheSoulCrisis I grow hot peppers as a hobby (and I'll sometimes grow some pretty flowers and stuff like that too) , and often you'll see fancy, or outright impossible seeds, either for plants that clearly don't exist like Super Mario flytraps and peppers the size of a toddler, or for plants that can't be grown from seeds like French Tarragon, being sold.
The pepper seeds are almost always from the same generic red Thai-pepper, not the well known cultivars like Carolina Reaper they're being sold as, and by the time the buyer can tell for sure it's the wrong variety it's far too late.

​@@reginasaveholmolsson8057 I had never even considered buying seeds on amazon. With seeds the seller is the quality. Though most gardeners don't realize the low grade trash they get in packets or as mass retail seedlings. The stuff farmers get is massively better in terms of germination, vigour, and being true to type, but its because they contract for hundreds of pounds, if not tens of tons, of seed and they involve random sampling, controlled storage conditions, and actual insurance companies. (Aside from fancy low volume breeders, always go with cultivars that are currently commercially popular, the seed growers of these cultivars put way more effort into culling sports, avoiding cross pollination, and ensuring high quality seed from healthy plants. Old varieties that are only popular on packet racks are basically grown in a roadside ditch. An exaggeration I admit, but the theme is accurate.)

I was supposed to get a 12 pack of canned corn beef hash for about 30 dollars, and I received 1.

I purchased a odd size (small) lightbulb for a project I was working on. The image on the amazon listing showed a box labeled "10 pack" and the about this item section said 10pc. The listing was $11 which seemed about right for a 10pc order of tiny 12v lightbulbs. I received one tiny lightbulb, in a huge box.

Its sad because everyone probably has an experience like that now - I ordered a really nice looking wax melter, made of wood, and received a cheap dollar-store humidifier instead. It was also rainbow colored with a shiny pink metallic finish, (the whole thing was made of VERY cheap plastic). Probably the funniest but also the shittiest order I ever made. Immediately returned it, left a 1 star review and complained to Amazon. They should have given me extra for having to drive to the UPS store.

almost all from china. don't buy anything from china.

Like a trashy flea-market sometimes--depends on the product.

​ @trinleywangmo
Yes and well said.
Merry Christmas to you and yours today!

You never know who it's coming from. Is it a real product? Is it something that's been sitting in somebody's unsanitary basement in their house? Who are these millions of shops? You don't know. You don't know what you're getting.

They happily sell non-listed stuff ... not UL listed. Hazardous from a a fire/life/safety standpoint.

"your safety" = brand deal with Apple, not actually your safety

It is definitely still up. One of the reviews from last year says that it is complete junk...and they gave it 5 stars.

All big companies like Amazon, Meta, Google, eBay do sometimes a big purge, but after a while they allow the same practices again, because if they are being strict they start losing money.

After reading through the amazon seller forums about the blatant review manipulation and scams that are posted daily, it's clear that it is unsalvageable. Amazon has allowed itself to be infested with so much fraud (mostly from China) that there should be a historical lawsuit to shut it down as a public hazard. Amazon makes money regardless of who is scammed. They don't care about the buyer or the seller. Unfortunately, nothing will change until people just say no to scamazon.

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