[jeanvaljean2463]

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.

[bduerst]

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.

[thirdsun]

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.

[skinnymuch]

Is the new app Shopify launched like that or not good enough?

[monocularvision]

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.

[Mo3]

Out of curiosity, how did a toiletry injure you?

[jeanvaljean2463]

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.

[spoopyskelly]

Stop buying things because a small percentage of them are broken. Makes sense.

[myvoiceismypass]

If a fucking toiletry fucks with me... are you even serious? You see nothing remotely wrong with this?

[kevin_thibedeau]

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?

[ASalazarMX]

If you can't reliably distinguish between genuine and scam vendors, yes, that makes sense.