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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6
There are warnings not to buy solar eclipse glasses on **** and Amazon.
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Yeah, Amazon has lots of imported junk. Last year, we bought eclipse glasses from Amazon, but I waded through 100 different vendors that looked Chinese in origin and purchased a well known brand (still probably made in China, but made to higher standards).
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Originally Posted by Racerbvd
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LOL!
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Originally Posted by WSH
No fan of Bezos, but I'll support an American company over a CCP loss-leader trying to steal market share by dumping chinese crap on us. F the CCP
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yes. And I try to avoid the cheap ,imported, knock-off products as much as possible.
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Originally Posted by Dixie
I had a friend that worked summers at an Amazon fulfillment center. Her job the rest of the year was teaching elementary school. She said Amazon was a very fast paced and demanding job. A lot of people would quit before completing a week.
So why'd she work there? Because it paid way better than teaching. Plus, it gave her something to do over the summer
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Presumably, she wasn't super young? So we had a more mature (not late teens early 20s) person working in the warehouse repeatedly. It must not have been too gruelling, and the pay must have been decent.
There's a lot of stuff that I can't get local (in my little rural local area). Driving into Houston or Austin (60 miles to the edge of either city, 75-85 to the city centers) to buy from a brick and mortar means a bare minimum of 2.5hours, but probably more like 3+ hours of just driving.
I/we do a lot of shopping with Amazon (and do some other online shopping besides Amazon). It's hard to beat the service, selection, and shipping.
IMO, Amazon shoppers should pay attention to 3 things when buying from Amazon.
1 the Vendor that's actually selling what you're buying. Is the vendor Amazon, or the manufacturer or some other third party. If you want to avoid counterfeit products and cheap imported junk you should stick with stuff sold by Amazon and/or the manufacturer/vendor of the item (and if going with the manufacturer/vendor, you probably want to avoid names that are "odd" which are likely Chinese sellers).
If you want to avoid slow shipping and potential customer service issues and possibly bad products, then stick with stuff that's "shipped by Amazon" or "fulfilled by Amazon". I'm not saying that you can't have perfectly good products shipped quickly with good service that come from somewhere besides the Amazon warehouses. I just think you have to perform additional due diligence for those vendors. If it's shipped from the Amazon warehouse then returns are easy/painless. If it's sold and shipped by a third party, then you could either be hitting a small vendor (great!) or a vendor that is trying to make more money by listing through Amazon (hit or miss) or a fly by night vendor that may be selling junk, or may be hard to work with if there's an issue after purchase. It's up to you to protect yourself in those cases.
It's still possible to get burned by Amazon or to get great products and services sold and shipped from small third party sellers, but I think that following those suggestions help avoid those issues.