[steveBK123]

Very large % of stuff on Amazon US is 3rd party sellers.

There are plenty of reports of 3rd party sellers subbing in rebranded/relabelled goods like SSDs/HDDs/SD cards where you take a cheaps/low one and re-market it as a high speed high price one.

Agreed Amazon absolutely has great customer service for buyers.

[3D30497420]

I recently built a media-server so was purchasing HDDs. Every single online retailer I purchased from, including Amazon, delivered one that was refurbished or taken from an OEM system and therefore out of warranty. I ended up buying one in-person in a computer store that was about 10% more expensive. For what its worth, Amazon had the easiest return process.