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Amazon has been increasing its reliance on 3P sellers (60% of total revenue now compared to <50% a couple of years ago) as they bring in more profit than 1P. Such problems are likely to increase. As others pointed out, plenty of fake reviews out there.

I live in UK & do buy electronics from Amazon mainly because its the only reliable (fast delivery + refunds w/o questions) place to buy cheap Chinese stuff.

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If you’re like me, after a while, your home gets filled with cheap Chinese stuff. Some go into the trash and some go to the ‘Free Stuff’ pile outside.

Unwinding my life without products is a daily/monthly/yearly occurrence and I greatly appreciate quality and thoughtfulness that goes into a product over simple function. I’ve also shifted focus to software and cloud which helps a bit to declutter. I no longer run a lab full of hardware at home.

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