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15th March 2021

Post reblogged from I CRAVE THE FLAME with 111 notes

rustingbridges:

birth-muffins-death:

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)

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    It’s been really interesting watching Amazon basically turn into half web-host and half Wal-Mart with a loss-leader...
  12. d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r said: like, walmart [sells everything] allows third-party sellers and is consequently just as scammy, ebay’s p reliable for *used* stuff but for new stuff it’s if anything *worse*, etc
  13. d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r said: (ofc people can go to specific sites for just the type of product they want to purchase, but ime if you don’t already know which websites are trustworthy google will not help you)
  14. d-i-r-k-s-t-r-i-d-e-r said: my opinion is that people still use amazon because the other sites that have the same variety of products are equally (and identically) bad
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  17. theseriouscynic said: @inariedwards I think you’re right.
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