I canceled Amazon Prime last month given that I’ve lost all trust in getting a functioning version of whatever I’ve ordered. This is some next-level shit.

3 points

I haven’t had a prime sub in 5 years. It’s not been worth it in a while.

What good is the convenience of having everything on the same website if I have to determine if it’s fake or not?

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People are such scumbags on Amazon. If you aren’t paying attention and just quickly go to rebuy something like deodorant (like I just did) you can end up spending over $50 for 2 sticks… I had to actually go to the manufacturers page to find what I was looking for as I guess they changed packaging and all the assholes are charging insane prices for the “old style” package.

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Is there a text version? Or if someone watched the video, are these drives sold by Amazon or by third party sellers?

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Amazon is notorious for combining stock, “the seller” often doesn’t matter.

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Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!

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Newegg is inundated with 3rd party sellers so it’s basically a crapshoot as well.

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Sadly yep. Micro Center is just about the only PC component supplier I’ll buy from nowadays, but I have to drive like 4 hours to get to my nearest one

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Checking in from Vancouver Island. Nearest one is 26hrs away.

I did love them when I was living in California and could be there in an hour. Now I take my chances with online sellers like Amazon.

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Oh, the irony that enshittification has led to not trusting online tech firms to sell tech items online.

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This has been a problem on Amazon for ages. Unless you can confirm the seller on the Amazon listing is authentic, you should never buy any storage devices on Amazon, ever.

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It doesn’t even matter if it’s a trusted seller. Amazon puts their returned items back with the new products and they stock the items from every seller together. You can have 10 sellers with a genuine item and 1 with a counterfeit item and have a chance of getting the counterfeit item from any of them because they all share the same stock.

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