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The Best Thing About Amazon Was Never Going to Last | If shopping on the site feels different now, that’s because it is (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This has been a big problem in beauty products particularly, I know. People having sudden reactions to a cream they’ve used for years, because it’s actually a counterfeit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Another area affected by this is trading cards. If you buy a trading card pack, it's guaranteed yours will have previously been opened, sifted through for good cards, poorly resealed, and returned for Amazon to say "yeah this looks untampered, sell it for the same vendor as new".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Jeff Bezos down voted you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can live with the burden of that knowledge. 😉