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by bdamm 2496 days ago
It's definitely more work to buy authentic products than it used to be. These days I find myself aborting purchases at the checkout phase, when I can review the actual shipper of the product. If it's "fulfilled by Amazon" or a shipper I already trust, then I consider it good to go, but otherwise, I back out and start over with the same product and a different product link. Now with Amazon fulfilling for other shippers it's going to be really hard unless Amazon can do the heavy lifting to ensure product authenticity on the way in to their warehouses. If they don't, I guess it'll be time to give up on Amazon entirely.

This book scanning junk is definitely a next level problem. Wow.

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> Now with Amazon fulfilling for other shippers

They've been doing this for years. That's what Fulfilled By Amazon is. And no, they don't reliably check product authenticity.