Technology

I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.

First was a laptop that wouldn't start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.

Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I'd ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.

So they don't have the resources to check returned goods or what? Or they simply don't care enough?

I buy and maintain about $20K of computer equipment a year for my lab. We learned around 2020 Amazon is a nest of scammers, from the suppliers to the delivery people.

There has been a significant resurgence of local computer supply retail because millions have been ripped off and only now buy in person.

It's sickening how little Amazon seem to give a fuck about this. They could easily tighten up their vetting of sellers, but heaven fucking forbid they only report a $50,000,000,000 profit this year instead of $50,003,000,000.

Don't buy expensive shit off Amazon. They don't do anything to prevent fraud.

My headlight connector got a little melty, just enough to get loose and stop working, just wore out I suppose.

I bought one on Amazon, along with new bulbs, installed it, and within an hour the new connector had catastrophically melted and shorted out enough to blow the fuse.

I should've known, the wire felt cheap, copper clad aluminum. But I thought it would be fine, it's just a headlight 🤷‍♂️

Now I've got a replacement from the local auto parts. So far so good.

Buying electronics from Amazon is really rolling the dice. I've received so many inadvertent open box returns... it's just a matter of time before you get burned.

Buying from a reputable operation spares you from a lot of this. Amazon is all hot garbage across the board.

“… from Amazon”

Well there’s your problem.

I have long read reports of amazon reselling used or opened & returned pc-components. We really need a more trustworthy source of pc-components that isn't a regional micro center store.

16 GB DDR2 + 16 GB DDR3 makes 32GB DDR5, right?

I ordered 2x32GB DDR5 on Amazon two years ago and received 1x32 and 1x8 in the same package.

Luckily they replaced it for me completely, still wild. Can only imagine it's going to get worse.

Its amazon, just return it. That's really the only good thing about amazon anymore, easy returns.

This isn’t exclusive to Amazon. I had it happen with friends build back in the Newegg days.

I bought ram from Amazon some time ago and somebody had done a sticker swap and returned. The ram sticks in the package matched the box according to all the stickers but the kit registered in software was a lower end set with different part/serial numbers than the stickers/box. The funny part was when I bought it the price difference was only like $5 but about a year or so earlier it was closer to an $80 difference.