<story><title>PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon&apos;s tactics before House committee</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/amazon-bullying-tactics-popsockets-hearing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Marsymars</author><text>I was recently searching for 1TB flash drives. Currently, when I search for &amp;quot;1tb flash drive&amp;quot; on amazon.com, after ads and an Amazon&amp;#x27;s Choice banner, the top result is a listing for a $20 product: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Flash-Memory-Rotatable-Laptop-Computer&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;B07NY9WR28&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Flash-Memory-Rotatable-Laptop-Compute...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>Amazon is extremely shady and it doesn&amp;#x27;t just hurt companies like PopSockets.  Amazon has a counterfeits problem and it&amp;#x27;s bad for customers.  It is totally obvious now that Amazon embraces cheap Chinese knockoffs, and I&amp;#x27;m sick of having to send them back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>This was my prime reason to cancel my Amazon Prime. For 20$ of revenue, people are willing to destroy other people&amp;#x27;s work and memories.&lt;p&gt;In my case, it was a fake Kingston SD Card and luckily used it only for a Rasberry pi. It cost me only a day of figuring out what I am doing wrong but easily it could have cost me my photos from a trip to a remote place.&lt;p&gt;Of course, Amazon would deal with that as if it was 20$(or whatever) issue and everything is supposed to be O.K. when you get a refund.</text></comment>
<story><title>PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon&apos;s tactics before House committee</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/amazon-bullying-tactics-popsockets-hearing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Marsymars</author><text>I was recently searching for 1TB flash drives. Currently, when I search for &amp;quot;1tb flash drive&amp;quot; on amazon.com, after ads and an Amazon&amp;#x27;s Choice banner, the top result is a listing for a $20 product: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Flash-Memory-Rotatable-Laptop-Computer&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;B07NY9WR28&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Flash-Memory-Rotatable-Laptop-Compute...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>Amazon is extremely shady and it doesn&amp;#x27;t just hurt companies like PopSockets.  Amazon has a counterfeits problem and it&amp;#x27;s bad for customers.  It is totally obvious now that Amazon embraces cheap Chinese knockoffs, and I&amp;#x27;m sick of having to send them back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnevets</author><text>On a related note John Carmack recently ran into this issue&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ID_AA_Carmack&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1215844056091320321&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;ID_AA_Carmack&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1215844056091320321&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>