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Some shoppers are fleeing Amazon because of counterfeit goods

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I received fake toothpaste from Amazon. The toothpaste gave me asthma and the packaging and consistency were different from store bought. I left a review stating the item I received was fake and then the review was removed by Amazon. Amazon emailed me stating that the item is genuine and then I was permanently banned from reviewing items. I appealed and never heard back.

Was this an item that was sold and shipped by Amazon? Or was it sold by another store and fulfilled by Amazon? That is wild and I'm sorry you had to go through that.

It doesn't really matter either way because it's all Amazon. Amazon attracts scammers. People are tired of it.

It’s not just fakes, “Amazon Basics” brand stuff is often crap as well

I ended my Amazon prime account after I ordered iPhone cables that literally fall out of the charging port

Before that I ordered a hdmi splitter that makes a horrendous noise when I turn the tv off.

It just feels like Amazon now, everything is flea market quality

Related report from The Telegraph newspaper:

Inside the Amazon swamp: how fakes and frauds engulfed the world’s biggest bookshop https://archive.ph/X1P5v

> "The academic Martin Kleppmann...recently discovered that fake copies of his 2017 book Designing Data-Intensive Applications were widely available. “I only discovered [it was going on] because of the number of reviews from genuine readers that started appearing, complaining about poor print [quality] and missing pages,” he says.

Probably not the same thing in general.. But..

I've bought printed books on demand on Amazon, the first week they were released, (so not like a pirate had any time to duplicate it); that had horrendous print quality, super low quality screen caps (like 35dpi).

Its so I rethink my decision to have a printed tech book if the author only produces it as an Amazon print-on-demand title. Such that when I find a tech book that I want to read, I generally search elsewhere for it first, and if Amazon is the _only_ vendor that has it, I assume it is an Amazon print-on-demand text, and reconsider if I should buy it because I know I'll just be disappointed in crap quality.

So not only pirates doing it, Amazon is doing it itself as it races to the bottom to compete against who?

I fled because I was paying yearly for two day shipping that was closer to 7. Now in the situations where absolutely nobody else has something and I have to order from amazon my packages show up faster than they did with prime.

I refuse them. I haven't used them in years and I get so much more benefits. There is zero reason to use them these days...

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