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Blah Blah Blah Blah fricking Blah... I'm going to change the world by making YouTube videos. I'm an activist! Please tell me I'm smart and useful!
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what I like about Louis is that he talks fast enough that I don't have to speed up the video like with every other fricking youtuber
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I dropped Amazon after having some of the same stuff happen to me. It's feeling more like an eBay marketplace nowadays where you're playing the roulette wheel on getting a genuine product. One time I ordered shampoo and it made my hair fall out... So clearly fake stuff was making it to the "top seller" status. It's maddening.
Now I just order directly from the retailer to skip the middleman.
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Idk what ppl are fricking talking about here, ive had great experiences with amazon 99% of the fricking time.
I returned a fricking smart door lock today due to being the fricking wrong model number but that's like the fricking first real frickup in ages.
Using brick and mortar stores post 'rona sucks more IME. Everything is fricking messy, unorganized, out of stock and the fricking employees are fricking less than useless who are fricking always in bad moods.
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He looks and talks like that unhoused gay rightoid grifter from the early 2010s
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Youtuber genocide now (because yesterday's already passed)
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They don't call it Scamazon for no reason
@Lv88_Slime stand with Israel btw
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Just like ebay, they fricked the site letting chinese sellers on there. I don't buy anything important on there.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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they banned dropshipping and you can do SBA (sold-by-amazon) which is you just send them the product and they dictate the price. They cover the shipping. Basically if you're a manufacturer it's more feasible to simply ship them pallets.
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Just buy a new one straight from the manufacturers amazon site. The best part is there is so much fricked up shit sent you can send ur old drives back for a refund . I got good quality 64 gb of cossair ram recently and returned my 16 gb of ram in the box. I also got a good seagate 5tb hdd recently too
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Allegedly they don't keep items separated by seller so if a single seller is using fakes you may get a fake from any seller.
I will say i got counterfeit whey protein from a legit seller once so there's a possibility. Though after returning it Amazon gave me a follow up survey about it being counterfeit so they may be taking the problem seriously.
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There really is only so much they can implement at scale since they never addressed the problem when it mattered. Like I was talking with an Amazon worker and half of their conveyor malfunctions are from sellers not packing their items correctly and it spills everywhere. Seems they are not vetting their sellers very well at all.
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they are not vetting their sellers
very wellat all.ftfy
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Ugh
People who are too dumb to identify scams deserve to get scammed.
Looking through my purchases it's mostly stuff that I either can't get in store, or is considerably more expensive. RV underbelly tape, threaded brass inserts, torxplus sockets, etc
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its a waste of my time
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Back to ordering straight from the manufacturers
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Amazon is good for shit tier electronics when you don't feel like driving to walmart. Ebay is way better for refurbs
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Both Wal-Mart and Best Buy will ship to you. (And Best Buy will price-match Microcenter.)
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Amazon mogs best buy and walmart wrt shipping in leafland
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I'm sorry.
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i-i-i haven't used Amazon in y-y-years due to this
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I live in a god forsaken place so I buy shit like chargers, headphones and random shit like electronics solder. It's also nice for chinese tat like sake sets and tea stuff
If I could get it locally I would
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This guy always seems so angry. He should just take the Kaczynski pill and move to the woods.
Why is half the screen a livestream from his aquarium?
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Same thing happens with SD cards, probably 90% of storage listings on the site are scams.
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Same with vidya controllers. Order "genuine OEM Sony™ controller" and you'll get some cheap shit marked as Fony every single time.
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Good.
Everyone who buys from them deserves what they get or don't get.
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The last four hard drives I bought weren't what I ordered, wrong capacity, refurbished, ...
Tried to buy a new phone for my mom, first one never arrived, second one was refurbished (poorly) even though I bought it new.
And it was all from brand stores, I don't know wtf they're doing over there.
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I've bought so many drives from amazon and never had one fake
Even mSDs and such.
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Ive ordered several drives and they've all been correct.
Thats weird.
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It's probably up to what distribution center you get served from.
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Did you convince your mom to start volunteering at all or join some old lady groups, btw? And/or did she make a Pinterest?
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Neither, I think I got all my inflexibility and autism from her so it's not easy but I'm working on it.
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I keep saying their business model is now about selling sponsored search results rather than the products. That's why they tolerate endless dropshippers, fake products, fake reviews and so on.
At this point it's little more than a more expensive version of AliExpress.
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spiderman HATES amazon
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True.
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Motherlover, I had a .edu email before .com TLDs existed. All y'all AOLn00bs think you're fresh; you're just trite.
Snapshots:
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