Marketplace selling turned Amazon into the Wild West
Especially when it comes to off-brand electronics and accessories.
Especially when it comes to off-brand electronics and accessories.
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I've started noticing when browsing Amazon, there are hundreds of knockoff items under hundreds of bizarre brand names.. What's the story on this?
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Who would be checking that? Likely this is just being dropshipped.
The car accessory market does this in FaceBook group. Get the product for free if you leave a 5* review. Basically you can't really even trust "verified purchase" anymore because some are getting their money back after leaving the 5* review.
For real, there are some real diamond in the rough items.
It also has introduced a previously non-existent market for parts that didn't not exist on Amazon before.
I was able to find a really good Raspberry Pi touchscreen case and replacement fans for a Powercolor RX 580 for under 25 bucks total.
It's starting to beat ebay, which is kind of a huge deal in ease of access.
Whatever agency deals with consumer goods or agencies (and customs). Stuff like FCC for electronics etc.
In EU you need CE marking to be able to import your goods for sale in the European Economic Area. I'm not sure what the US equivalent is, but it exists.
There is nobody checking your CE marking and companies have been known to fake them.
I mean each individual product isn't checked, but there are regular checks of shipments of products by EU member state customs and consumer protection agencies. You can't just import whatever you want from China.
Buying clothing on Amazon is a freaking nightmare. Hundreds of cloned listings under different names for products that look awesome but will likely not actually be that product.
amazon don't give a shit
The christmas gift recommendations pages are a joke because of that. Pages and pages of junk.
Another "fun" thing they do is regroup all reviews for a product and all its variations. So let's say you're looking for a blu ray of some movie. There are 15 versions of that blu ray. All reviews for all 15 versions will be together so you don't know if what you're buying is what you want or if it's trash or anything. Just amateur shit.
The christmas gift recommendations pages are a joke because of that. Pages and pages of junk.
Another "fun" thing they do is regroup all reviews for a product and all its variations. So let's say you're looking for a blu ray of some movie. There are 15 versions of that blu ray. All reviews for all 15 versions will be together so you don't know if what you're buying is what you want or if it's trash or anything. Just amateur shit.
Sure, but at the same time, by the amount of fakes caught, it is clear that companies are still trying and profiting. Especially in cases like the one outlined in this topic, they can simply put the CE documentation of the original product as a quick fake.
Yeah, that's obviously a problem.
I think the case here is mostly about intellectual property which is tougher to police.
Amazon don't care, lol.
On Amazon India they freely allow pirated games and game accounts to be sold:
On Amazon India they freely allow pirated games and game accounts to be sold:
Gaming universe COD Black Ops 1 (Offline)-PC DVD (Direct Play) (Army Fight, for PC)(Physical Video Games, for PC): Amazon.in: Video Games
Gaming universe COD Black Ops 1 (Offline)-PC DVD (Direct Play) (Army Fight, for PC)(Physical Video Games, for PC): Amazon.in: Video Games
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This is the shit I hate as well. You'll get every variant product a company as in the same review pool, even if they're from different model lines.
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