<story><title>More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-cables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DashRattlesnake</author><text>&amp;gt; Over the past year I&amp;#x27;ve gotten increasingly frustrated with the overall Quality of the Amazon shopping &amp;quot;experience.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Me too, and I can add:&lt;p&gt;6. Spend time figuring out if the product is available locally for the same (or better) price.  I feel like sucker buying from Amazon and waiting a &lt;i&gt;minimum&lt;/i&gt; of 2 days to get something I could have gotten locally in 20 minutes for the same&amp;#x2F;cheaper price.&lt;p&gt;7. Deal with Amazon&amp;#x27;s new, &lt;i&gt;terrible&lt;/i&gt; delivery service.  Using untrained, un-unformed randos to deliver packages in their personal vehicles means my deliveries get screwed up &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; more frequently.  I&amp;#x27;ve had these people fail follow my package delivery instructions &lt;i&gt;that are posted on my door&lt;/i&gt; (deliver to the apartment office, rather than leaving at the door), &lt;i&gt;even after I&amp;#x27;ve talked to them personally.&lt;/i&gt;  No other delivery service has this problem.  I blame Amazon for this experience far more than the drivers.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s gotten to the point where I only go to Amazon for less-common long-tail stuff.  If it&amp;#x27;s an item that may be reasonably available at a retailer, I just shop locally.</text></item><item><author>mox1</author><text>Over the past year I&amp;#x27;ve gotten increasingly frustrated with the overall Quality of the Amazon shopping &amp;quot;experience.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I used to be able to trust Amazon. I could simply type in the type of item I wanted, search for the highest reviewed &amp;#x2F; rated and click buy.&lt;p&gt;Now, I have to:&lt;p&gt;1. Wade through the Ads and crap products to find what I actually searched for.&lt;p&gt;2. Read all of the comments, perform some type of judgement whether these are fake reviews, sponsored reviews, etc.&lt;p&gt;3. Figure out if it is &amp;quot;Fulfilled by Amazon&amp;quot; or sold directly (I only recently realized all of the &amp;quot;Fulfilled by Amazon&amp;quot; items get commingled, so I&amp;#x27;m getting basically god knows what).&lt;p&gt;4. If Fulfilled, now I have to research how reputable the selling company is. Just yesterday I found a company selling baby formula, whose domain name was registered last month, and via a privacy service!?!!? If you can&amp;#x27;t list your business address, I&amp;#x27;m not buying from you.&lt;p&gt;5. Now I need to determine whether the sold by Amazon item is fake or legit. Lets hope some other sucker buys it before me and posts a good review.&lt;p&gt;At this point, I would rather just goto Target or Walgreens, CVSm etc and buy the damn thing. Taking 20-30 minutes to research every purchase is getting very old.&lt;p&gt;...But hey 2 day shipping for $8&amp;#x2F; month right!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Klathmon</author><text>I had 10 packages in a row not get delivered by them (there was stuff shipped by USPS and UPS in between them), and every time I called up, they would give me the same &amp;quot;free month of prime&amp;quot; and promise that they would know the directions next time...&lt;p&gt;Many of the occasions they would call me asking for directions (one time a driver called me 5 times in a row from a washington number, never left a message. I was in a work meeting and though someone died...), then literally minutes later would mark the package as undeliverable.&lt;p&gt;I finally spoke to someone there one night named Sara and spent over 2 hours on the phone with her while she refunded the whole order (like $100 of random &amp;quot;IoT&amp;quot; stuff), stayed on the phone with me while she got GPS coordinates from me (with my offering them from an app on my phone), put my address in their system, put a bunch of notes about how to get to my house, made sure the package would be delivered the next day. The packages are finally getting delivered (i made sure to call back and make sure her manager knew how much she helped), but I still have issues where the drivers just won&amp;#x27;t deliver it, or will beat the crap out of it.&lt;p&gt;Hell just a week or 2 ago I found a bubble mailer blowing down the road, by chance I decided to pick it up to throw it out assuming it was trash, only to find it was addressed to ME! Turns out it was something that should have been delivered a few days ago.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not reupping my prime subscription when it&amp;#x27;s up. I already don&amp;#x27;t go with amazon if I need anything quick, because there&amp;#x27;s like a 50% chance it will take 4-5 days to get to me, even with prime.</text></comment>
<story><title>More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-cables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DashRattlesnake</author><text>&amp;gt; Over the past year I&amp;#x27;ve gotten increasingly frustrated with the overall Quality of the Amazon shopping &amp;quot;experience.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Me too, and I can add:&lt;p&gt;6. Spend time figuring out if the product is available locally for the same (or better) price.  I feel like sucker buying from Amazon and waiting a &lt;i&gt;minimum&lt;/i&gt; of 2 days to get something I could have gotten locally in 20 minutes for the same&amp;#x2F;cheaper price.&lt;p&gt;7. Deal with Amazon&amp;#x27;s new, &lt;i&gt;terrible&lt;/i&gt; delivery service.  Using untrained, un-unformed randos to deliver packages in their personal vehicles means my deliveries get screwed up &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; more frequently.  I&amp;#x27;ve had these people fail follow my package delivery instructions &lt;i&gt;that are posted on my door&lt;/i&gt; (deliver to the apartment office, rather than leaving at the door), &lt;i&gt;even after I&amp;#x27;ve talked to them personally.&lt;/i&gt;  No other delivery service has this problem.  I blame Amazon for this experience far more than the drivers.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s gotten to the point where I only go to Amazon for less-common long-tail stuff.  If it&amp;#x27;s an item that may be reasonably available at a retailer, I just shop locally.</text></item><item><author>mox1</author><text>Over the past year I&amp;#x27;ve gotten increasingly frustrated with the overall Quality of the Amazon shopping &amp;quot;experience.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I used to be able to trust Amazon. I could simply type in the type of item I wanted, search for the highest reviewed &amp;#x2F; rated and click buy.&lt;p&gt;Now, I have to:&lt;p&gt;1. Wade through the Ads and crap products to find what I actually searched for.&lt;p&gt;2. Read all of the comments, perform some type of judgement whether these are fake reviews, sponsored reviews, etc.&lt;p&gt;3. Figure out if it is &amp;quot;Fulfilled by Amazon&amp;quot; or sold directly (I only recently realized all of the &amp;quot;Fulfilled by Amazon&amp;quot; items get commingled, so I&amp;#x27;m getting basically god knows what).&lt;p&gt;4. If Fulfilled, now I have to research how reputable the selling company is. Just yesterday I found a company selling baby formula, whose domain name was registered last month, and via a privacy service!?!!? If you can&amp;#x27;t list your business address, I&amp;#x27;m not buying from you.&lt;p&gt;5. Now I need to determine whether the sold by Amazon item is fake or legit. Lets hope some other sucker buys it before me and posts a good review.&lt;p&gt;At this point, I would rather just goto Target or Walgreens, CVSm etc and buy the damn thing. Taking 20-30 minutes to research every purchase is getting very old.&lt;p&gt;...But hey 2 day shipping for $8&amp;#x2F; month right!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeff_petersen</author><text>&amp;gt; Deal with Amazon&amp;#x27;s new, terrible delivery service&lt;p&gt;God, this has bitten me more times than it should have before I stopped buying from Amazon. Several times they marked an item as delivered even though it wasn&amp;#x27;t (I was home all day and nobody came to the door for any reason, no trucks on the street), presumably because they have a package quota and they aggressively overstuff their drivers. Once they delivered it, but left it right at the head of my driveway. What a huge pain.</text></comment>