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Eh I don’t feel like buying fake shit. The risk is too high buying from 3rd parties on amazon.

Aren't you equally at risk buying from Amazon themselves due to inventory commingling?

Usually if it's Amazon-shipped they will "take responsibility for this fulfillment experience" and nullify the 1-star review while immediately refunding you, from what I recall.

...from what I recall.

Are you recalling something that happened to you, or a rumor you read somewhere?

Something that happened to me. I left a 1-star review for a merchant that took 3 months to ship and it stayed up. I left a 1 star review for a completely unresponsive merchant that took Amazon a month to FBA for some reason (stock/non-commingled?) and it was removed with the reason "fulfilled by Amazon, we take responsibility for this experience", but Amazon did credit me back while the seller continued to ignore contact.

I've had sellers also threaten me over reviews while they ship counterfeit product, but that's a whole other can of worms

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