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Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 15 points 8 months ago (13 children)

@chiliedogg @themachinestops
Amazon will consistently facilitate fraud. I had sworn I would not order from them, but it seemed there was an exceptional deal on a certain type of tortilla.
There were supposed to be 12 bags of tortillas, but there were only 10.
I read there guidelines, and there is absolutely no recourse for something like this. I opened the box, now it's mine.

I had decided quite firmly I wouldn't deal with them, and it was a serious mistake when I did.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink

    Drivers urinating in bottles has been reported in the past, but what wasn’t known is that some claim they also get penalized for having those urine-filled bottles in their truck when they return to the warehouse.

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    To avoid penalties, they end up discarding the bottles by the side of the road. Butler searches the roadsides near Amazon warehouses from Coventry to New York to Los Angeles and more often than not strikes liquid gold.

    From there, it’s laughably straightforward for Butler to get Release listed for sale on Amazon, with very few checks and balances in place to ensure the product he’s selling is safe and legal. “Releasing the drink was surprisingly easy,” Butler told WIRED. “I thought that the food and drinks licensing would stop me from listing it, so I started it out in this Refillable Pump Dispenser category. Then the algorithm moved it into drinks.”

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    @UnderpantsWeevil
    they need to be shut down

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Nationalized and folded into the USPS. Idk about shutting down the biggest commercial retailer in the world.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    @UnderpantsWeevil
    It would certainly take some work. Like the Army, they rely on a failure elsewhere to provide real jobs and paychecks.
    Bring on the guaranteed basic income. Fuck your job.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    But income isn't useful if you can't buy stuff with it. And Amazon is the supply chain network that delivers stuff in exchange for money.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    So what exactly did you do to piss off the Amazon Returns department? Because from my experience, they are the most lenient company when it comes to returns/refunds. I've had stuff arrive broken, or scuffed up, or it was the wrong item, or I just plain didn't like a product and every time I've been able to submit a return without having to interact with a single person.

    I feel like you either have to be lying about your experience, didn't even try to return it, or did something that got your account flagged.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    No judgement...but why would you buy 10 bags of tortillas from Amazon?

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    @QuandaleDingle
    I paid for 12. and it was supposed to be a good deal. why do you ask?
    d'Oh

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I'm just curious. You probably go into a hispanic food store and get them for a similar price, or better. And you know what you're getting then. shrug

    But you saw a good deal and thought they'd honor that. So it really sucks that happened. I mean, it's tortilla! ToT

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