In my case, it was a fake Kingston SD Card and luckily used it only for a Rasberry pi. It cost me only a day of figuring out what I am doing wrong but easily it could have cost me my photos from a trip to a remote place.
Of course, Amazon would deal with that as if it was 20$(or whatever) issue and everything is supposed to be O.K. when you get a refund.
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1215844056091320321
For those who don't know: despite having a name that implies curation, Amazon does not choose "Amazon's Choice" at all. It simply indicates which product is most popular, based on reviews that are widely known to be faked. Yet another utterly deceptive dark pattern.
The fact that they use awful metrics to make curate shitty choices doesn’t change that.
Just because your algorithm is a digitally encoded series of steps, as opposed to a a meat-encoded series of steps, doesn't mean you can wash your hands of the responsibility for its outcomes.
If an algorithm told me that the best way for me to optimize my tax bill is to commit tax fraud, I'd be just as liable for it, as if I followed the advice of an accountant to do so. I'm responsible for my outputs, not my inputs.
That's incorrect. "Amazon's Choice" is based on sales. If you search "flash drives" the product that has the Amazon's Choice badge is the product that is bought most often by customers using that search term. It's one of the only organic things on the Amazon platform.
It only vaguely verifies that it's in the same product category though. For the "1tb flash drive" search term, Amazon's Choice includes a 128GB flash drive, a 1TB HDD, a 2TB HDD, and a single 1TB flash drive.
It's broken down by price ranges... but it's like going to a car dealership, inquiring about a compact car, and being presented with a skateboard, a road bike, a mountain bike and a car.
I don't know if perhaps there is some weird legal shenanigans going on, where Amazon are more able to get away with this in the US? Here in the UK, I've never come across such obvious deceit, or (knowingly!) ended up with a fake/counterfeit, across what must be at least hundreds of purchases, spanning 10+ years.
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> This has no effect on Amazon's credibility and can't be good for the country in the long-term. Rationality has no effect on sales.
What’s the point of paying a membership fee for the privilege of sorting through garbage, scams and counterfeits yourself?
https://www.amazon.com/Metal-256GB-USB-Flash-Drive/dp/B076BD...
Very strange.
One thing that I look for to avoid junk like this, if the brand is in ALL CAPS then its almost 100% sourced from Alibaba or similar. Not many reputable brands use all caps like that.
Anyone remember that it's Amazon that pioneered the customer reviews that make it possible to identify such fakes?