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Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I ordered four m.2 chips for a raid and one of them was not like the others. Clearly a diff brand chip with a sticker transferred to it. Had I not bought multiple chips I might not have caught on.

Fuck amazon for anything of value. I now use it only for things like books and cat litter.

[–] severien@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I now use it only for things like books

Regarding that ... I recently bought a hefty biography on Oppenheimer - should have had more than 500 pages, great reviews. What arrived was a 50-page small format booklet. Not even books are a "safe buy" on Amazon.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Wow. I thought you were heading towards it being self-published with fake accreditation or something. Did not expect this.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they have the same ISBN?

[–] severien@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I didn't check. I sent it right back. It looks like it was some bait and switch scheme, when I received the book I checked the amazon page and there were many other new complaints about this exact thing.

[–] bob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazon damaged their brand name once they started acting like a third-party marketplace. Now it's basically almost like ebay.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago

Except worse because they mix inventory so it's easier for sellers to get away with scams

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't buy books from them any longer because their packaging is so poor that most of the time books arrive to me damaged from being tossed into a too large box for shipping.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ha! The put my copy of It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism in a huge box with a 40lbs box of cat litter. The book got compressed like an accordion.

[–] flustered@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

not suprising, amazon is just aliexpress but with 1-2 day shipping.