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by JohnFen 1048 days ago
> If online shopping were truly such a terribly scammy UX in 100% of cases people would stop using it

Some people have. This is one of the main reasons why I stopped using Amazon years ago.

But lots of people won't. If people were that rational, then the thousands of straight-up obvious and traditional scams perpetrated every day wouldn't still work.