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by jeanvaljean2463 2148 days ago
I keep telling everyone I come across, STOP BUYING THINGS from Amazon. They know they have a huge problem and refuse to face it.

I was injured in 2010 by counterfeit toiletries and since have embargoed them completely. I'm happy to buy things from the manufacture and pay shipping, at least I know with a reasonable confidence that what I am getting is going to be the real thing.

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There need to be better indexed shopify and big cartel sites. So many great online stores I've bought from use that as a web front.
I don't think that's a solution. While I really, really like Shopify as an ecommerce platform its usage alone tells you nothing about the legitimacy of the seller. Indexing all products on a certain platform just seems like another marketplace to me.
Is the new app Shopify launched like that or not good enough?
I have probably purchased tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise over a decade from Amazon and I can’t remember ever having a problem with receiving the wrong item or what I could tell was a counterfeit item.
Out of curiosity, how did a toiletry injure you?
Dioxin tainted shaving soap... Bad times.

Had no idea it wasn't legit until I started having crazy dermal issues and saw a doctor.

Paid crazy amounts to have a sample tested to see if there was anything I could do to solve it.

Stop buying things because a small percentage of them are broken. Makes sense.
If a fucking toiletry fucks with me... are you even serious? You see nothing remotely wrong with this?
Stop buying things with high profit margin that are easily adulterated. Everything I buy passes through a filter: How profitable is it to fake this and do I care if it is?
If you can't reliably distinguish between genuine and scam vendors, yes, that makes sense.