[bhuga]

There's one upside to the Amazon shopping experience devolving into a primordial sludge of counterfeits and random whitelabel garbage. These vendors have no discoverability beyond Amazon reviews, so their desperation to prevent your 1-star review is drastic. If you leave a 1-star review, they'll often get in touch with you and offer you another item for free, as often as it takes, however long it takes.

The products are garbage, but most of the prices are already pretty good. When you realize the prices are for two at the cost of a review, they're even better.

I still get emails trying to give me free stuff to change a one-star review I left a year ago for a one-ear bluetooth earbud.

On the other hand, I don't see how you can buy quality on Amazon anymore. I've started shopping on niche sites for things that I want to work, and I'd never buy expensive electronics. The risk of a counterfeit is just too high.

[masonic]

  The products are garbage, but most of the prices are already pretty good

To me, there is no such thing as a "good" price for a "garbage" product.

[jobigoud]

> If you leave a 1-star review, they'll often get in touch with you and offer you another item for free

But is it at the price of removing your 1-star review? They are buying your honesty?

[zip1234]

Sounds like the ultimate 1-star review for these types of situations should note that they will give you a free one if you 1 star the product. People will start doing that just for free ones.