Amazon Sells Dangerous Electrical Crimps

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[JackRaynerV]

A thing I noticed on amazon is that vendors are able to switch the actual product listed so that it looks like its got a billion great reviews, but then you read the reviews and it's for a completely different product.

You're right. Amazon has become garbage.

[iamwhodis]

There should be a class action law suit against Amazon for allowing reviews for past products to be attached to a different product. I said that in a review and I was banned from the review community.

[NotMorganFreeman.]

A major point of aggravation for me is when Amazon removed the ability for the seller and the buyer to communicate to each other. They also removed the ability for customers to contact each other and reply to reviews, because people could communicate and tell each other why a product sucked and recommend a better product. The same thing also happened when Netflix removed the option for viewers to rate movies and shows with the star system and leave reviews. They do not want their customers to have a voice.

[johnsmith-tnyi]

I’ve had no problems with the stuff I’ve ordered from Amazon. I read the product reviews, but I never read the 4 or 5 star reviews. I only read the 1 star reviews. Those are the ones believe more.

[battleon]

Ripping open bags to steal screws is just...wow. That's a level of petty theft I've never even considered.

[BurroDiablo]

I reviewed a bluetooth receiver for my car about 6-7 years ago, I was happy enough with it and gave it a decent review. Cut to about 2 years ago, I decided to read my old reviews to find this one now sitting on a page selling a vaccuum cleaner. They can just edit product pages that have high review scores, leaving the reviews in place even though they're for a totally different product, it's absolutely stupid and shouldn't be legal.

[axiana]

I ordered branded microfibres cloths and received cheap alternatives. They weren’t even knock offs, just completely different. My review included photographs and was not allowed because it included information about packaging even though it didn’t.

[rhymereason]

So true... I'm getting really tired of having to wade through a blizzard of cheap Chinese junk to try to find something on Amazon. It's become a HUGE problem!

[FredFredrickson-bip-bang]

Pro tip: When buying from HD, place an on-line order for delivery or pick-up from your local store so that an employee has to pick the items. Items not in-stock will ship from corporate. Corporate is a separate entity. If you return something that was supplied by corporate at the local store they have to return it to corporate instead of adding it to their inventory at the store, even though everything is on the same invoice.

[williamlitsch]

I haven't trusted Amazon reviews for 10 years. They first started showing fake reviews and preventing proper filtering by categories for books. 95% of books are 4 or 5 stars and 90% of those are pure dog $hit. Their whole rating system is a pay-to-play scam. It's actually become harder for me to find good books to read since Amazon.

[riyh]

Amazon didn't go to crap until 2015 or 2016. That was when they allowed chinese sellers on the platform. All the junk started showing up then and displacing real products and also killed off many of the regular 3P sellers.

[Ace_of_Horns]

I especially love being forced to wait a week to cancel an order and request a refund for a product that was already a week late by that point, because my product "may still arrive" I pay for prime shipping too.

[JosephANagyJr]

There's another issue: It's known that some "companies" would put up a listing for an item on Amazon, wait until it got a lot of good reviews, then completely change the listing (which kept the reviews for the previous listing) and then sell the new, super junky item, under the old listing's reviews.

[HecklerUK]

Noticed this issue myself. I only purchase items that are sold & shipped by amazon... I refuse to deal with 3rd party sellers because 9 out of 10 times... it's garbage and the seller is no better than a scammer. Then the ones that suddenly change the shipping date from next day to next month... because they're a Chinese seller masquerading as one in my country.

It's gotten to the point where 90% of stuff from 3rd party sellers never even showed up after 3-4 weeks... and then you've got to deal with the whole refund process.

I've started switching back to local purchases for stuff... this xmas, the only thing I bought for anyone from Amazon was a gift card because my brother in law wanted some new trainers and he got them from Amazon (branded)

But I too have noticed that branded goods are getting harder and harder to find online... so I've started going directly to the makers website and looking for direct sales from them, or for a direction to one of their partner sellers.

Hey presto... half the garbage problem disappears.

[ElectricLumens]

I bought a 4-pack of detergent on Amazon. When I got it there were only two. The title said something like "2 x 2 pack", but the main thing was the image which said "4-pack" in the corner. The price was about the same as supermarkets were charging for actual 4-packs. When I went to return it, it said that the item is not eligible for return. I started a live chat, and the agent told me that I am wrong and that it is obviously just a 2-pack. They refused to help. I started another live chat and this time the agent said they would start a return for me. When I got the emails about the return that had just been started for me, they had chosen one of the other items in the order, presumably because they also were unable to open a return request for the detergent. I then had to cancel that, and write a complaint email to Amazon. The complaint email was thankfully answered and they refunded me with no need to return it.

[Chidsuey]

You didn't even mention the problem of product swapping. I frequently find products now with tons of great reviews, only to read those reviews and find it they're reviewing a completely different product. Somehow sellers can leave up a product page and completely swap what's actually being sold. I have no idea why Amazon would allow something like that.

[marxmaiale]

This is far superior to the normal chair rant video. Not only does it get your point across more effectively, it allows us to formulate ideas on how to actually do our own repairs.
I know what I'm doing the next time outdoor equipment eats an extension cord.
3:1 waterproof heatshrink, good crimping from home depot

[sullivan]

If the "brand name" looks like it was created by drawing letters from a scrabble bag, then it is likely poor quality or fake.

[Sirfrummel]

It's not just low quality products, but they are selling RETURNED merchandise that has been USED as new. This has happened to my wife 3 times, and she's very careful to buy new, shipped&sold by Amazon. Literally a baking pan that had crusted crumbs on it, new book with writing on it, water heater that was obviously used, etc

[fakecubed]

My biggest issue with Amazon lately is they claim to have shipped something, then a couple days later when it should have arrived they send me an email and say they haven't shipped it yet. The initial shipping notification was a lie. This has been happening with increasing frequency.