Submitted 3 months ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeUNC7z5MM0
I canceled Amazon Prime last month given that I’ve lost all trust in getting a functioning version of whatever I’ve ordered. This is some next-level shit.
Is there a text version? Or if someone watched the video, are these drives sold by Amazon or by third party sellers?
Amazon is notorious for combining stock, “the seller” often doesn’t matter.
Amazon needs to take some responsibility for the products they sell. This is unacceptable.
If I open a store in my town and start selling fake crap I can’t go and say “sorry not my fault I’m just a reseller you need to deal with the guy who sold it to me” I will be brought to court and loose why is Amazon allowed to sell fakes and non UL complient equipment?
I suspect their argument would be that they are more like a flea market. If you buy something fake or faulty at a flea market then the flea market probably isn’t liable, the seller is. Now, I don’t think this argument holds water, especially in light of Amazon’s practice of combining all of the stock of a single product into one place, regardless of who the seller is, so that there’s no way to know if you’ll actually get product from that seller.
Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!
I haven’t had a prime sub in 5 years. It’s not been worth it in a while.
What good is the convenience of having everything on the same website if I have to determine if it’s fake or not?
People are such scumbags on Amazon. If you aren’t paying attention and just quickly go to rebuy something like deodorant (like I just did) you can end up spending over $50 for 2 sticks… I had to actually go to the manufacturers page to find what I was looking for as I guess they changed packaging and all the assholes are charging insane prices for the “old style” package.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 months ago
If this is what I think it is, the hard drives are used data centre drives that are sold as “renewed”. They wipe the drives then use manufacturer’s tools to reset the clocks, effectively the same as winding back the mileage clock in a car. They are sold cheaper than new drives, but not really at a price that reflects their age and true used status.
I bought 4x 14TB drives of this type, pretty sure they were listed as new, although some show as used. 1 drive was DOA and I’m still waiting on the refund.
You can see tons of them on diskprices.com