I’m guessing one of y’all has thought about the game theory here: why does every Amazon listing feel like a scam?
idk about the game theory, but part of this is that a huge number of amazon listings are fake
not in the sense that you won’t get a product, the refund policy covers that. but a lot of stuff is being sold under disposable identities with copy pasted marketing copy and photoshopped pictures, with reviews that range from managed to outright bought.
it turns out it was a load bearing feature of commerce that someone would be embarrassed if all the product photos turned out to be fake
My father, a lawyer who partly dealt with New Jersey real estate, said about Hasidic Jews that they could be awe-inspiringly pious, but their lived community was so insular that you couldn’t rely on general reputational issues from stopping any given schmuck from pulling some dumb chiseling shit that couldn’t be checked through formal law and even if those guys weren’t common they had advantages and disproportionate success as contractors so make sure to get everything laid out in the contract (and the people who spent so much time arguing over Torah vagueness would accept and appreciate clarity)