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by searchableguy 2001 days ago
> if Amazon won't police (and they have problems with commingling counterfeit brands, too) then Walmart and Target will jump ahead.

I think they are solving this differently. Amazon introduced their own brands for almost all daily necessities. Amazon basic, amazon pharmacy, amazon fashion, amazon elements, amazon pantry, amazon echo and few more. They generally have average or above average products at an affordable price and good support.

You can buy AC, fridge, vacuum cleaner, clothes, baby food, dog food, dog bed, multi-vitamin, ramen, TWS, carpet, blanket, swiss army knife, solder machine, and a lot more from amazon itself now.
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_jal 2001 days ago
Yeah, tried that. Amazon Basics are as hit-or-miss as the rest of the garbage.

I'm frankly surprised they want to put their name on what appears to be dollar store crap that might be fine, might not, who knows. You can almost see the flickering neon and smell the cleaning fluid.

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ethbr0 2001 days ago
> smell the cleaning fluid

2020 brick and mortar's new motto

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capitainenemo 2001 days ago
The last time I bought a "new" phone "Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC" it arrived several weeks late, with a burned in screen, scuff marks, and randomly rebooting.

My impression is they did not have the item they were selling, and were relying on some presumably "trusted" reseller to provide it.

I ended up purchasing a used one in much better condition on eBay for several hundred dollars less where the condition at least matched the sale entry.

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pr0zac 2001 days ago
Be careful using eBay, a rather scary number of listings on there are people just relisting items from Amazon at a higher price and reshipping (or just ordering with your shipping address, I had one eBay purchase come directly from Amazon).
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bittercynic 2001 days ago
There are plenty of terrible sellers on ebay, too, but it is much easier to sort out the garbage sellers. Seller feedback is right there in the search results, and though you can't filter by feedback any more, it is easy enough to just skip over any listings with a low number or less than 99.9% positive.
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robotnikman 2001 days ago
From my experience i've had some mixed results with the quality of Amazon basics products.

I remember buying a charger for my phone, only for the plastic shell of the charger to break in half a few months later

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