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Amazon... more like SCAMazon - Fake SSDs
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At one point, Amazon was game changing and felt like the best place to shop online. Donā€™t have to worry about the scams and crappy quality on Ebay and Alibaba. But then something changed. Suddenly all you can find on the website is cheap garbage, or worse, complete scams. We take a look at one of the most prevalent scams on the platform, fake SSDs and hard drives. What do you get when you buy one of these, and how do they keep getting away with it?

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0:00 Intro
1:37 What we Got
6:48 Going inside
9:45 How The Scam Works
12:08 How they get away with it
15:07 Why Amazon Can't Stop It
18:58 Outro
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@LinusTechTips

1 year ago

Have you purchased a ā€œscamā€ product from Amazon before? How did your experience go? Let us know below!

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@emmasmith8367

1 year ago

My sibling complained that I spent too much money when I purchased my parents an SSD for their photos. The same sibling owns a fake SSD šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø

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@lfla0179

1 year ago

Brazil has a reverse public auction where several Federal services (police, transport) make a request proposal, and several suppliers make a bid to become suppliers for the lowest price...

There was this bid for 8GB pendrives for the police, and the Police Officer brought his own drive and said: "I have a drive with eight 1GB video files, and if your pendrives fail to save them, I will put you under arrest."

Half of the bidders dropped their offers.

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@kevinwiley5325

1 year ago

As someone who is hard of hearing and relies on lip reading a fair bit, Iā€™m REALLY thankful to the editing staff for putting CC for someone speaking off screen. Iā€™d never understand it otherwise.

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@cdbtheclaw

1 year ago

Making it impossible to switch the product category might be one way to at least make it way harder to review merge, especially in the tech space.

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@ezkymos

1 year ago

Amazon doesn't let us easily report product. If they make it easier we could shut down those scammers easier.

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@fallouthirteen

11 months ago

Amazon really needs to do something about it. Like a few months ago I was like "Eh, I could use another SSD", checked Amazon, saw tons of obvious scams, and then went "I don't feel like trying to navigate getting a good deal vs avoiding any subtle scams, I'm just not going to bother."

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@Lolsashalol

1 year ago

My gf's dad bought one of those 16TB drives literally today. He was trying to convince me its real. Thanks for saving me the trouble of explaining it

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@SergirothGames

1 year ago

A possible solution for ā€œlisting mergingā€ could be to make sure that it stays in the same category, and if it changes too much after merging, disable it until reviewed by some human or software.

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@bouncer67sh

1 year ago

Amazon tip: avoid product brands that sound like cans thrown down the stairs.

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@classicrockonly

1 year ago

Amazon has gotten so dodgy. I canā€™t even find the legitimate name brands anymore on many product types. Iā€™ve been spending less on Amazon because itā€™s gotten frustrating

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@QuiGonJa

1 year ago

My favorite thing about these products are the generally off topic reviews and sometimes askew lettering on the case.

My brothers friend fell for one of these scams around two months ago but was refunded a few days later. The worst part is that the same scam is still for sale on amazon.

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@Hector-yl1kh

1 year ago

This is an important video Linus. Although the topic is not new, the solution to undermining scammers is education of customers. When customers stop buying - because they know what they are looking at, the scammers will stop scamming.

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@Dampney_

1 year ago

Amazon Prime is starting to become a joke - searching for everyday products like a fan is a tricky task. Youā€™ll find a dozen fans with the exact same design but with a different brand name.

Amazon is taking us all for a ride here

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@eusamuel

1 year ago

Amazon can fix this by not allowing sellers to change the category of listed items, mainly when they have already been broadly sold. They can go even further in this and remove the ability to change titles when passed a certain length of time. Or they can keep older versions of the same item so buyers can go through what has been changed and what has not.

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@finderskeepers7293

9 months ago

Amazon also refuses to put up negative reviews about products. They usually say the review did not meet its guidelines or some nonsense.

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@jaminova_1969

1 year ago

Jeffe retired (he came back briefly during the pandemic) and Amazon hasn't been the same since Andy and the corporate dweebs have taken over. What bothers me most about scamming customers is they don't get it. Sears Roebuck was the Amazon of the 19th & 20th centuries and they died a horrible death because of terrible customer service and replacing quality with crap. So thank you for posting these videos and remember, "Buyer Beware". I do wish Amazon would try harder policing their website!

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@Camexplode

1 year ago

This is Amazons biggest issue. I see myself avoiding Amazon because it becomes more and more like Wish or Alibaba.

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@paulbrooks4395

1 year ago

Please remember that returning a product is your greatest strength with Amazon. If you must issue a chargebackā€”and I wouldnā€™t recommend going that route with Amazonā€”use the option ā€œproduct not as describedā€. This is useful with other vendors.

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@sigmattew

1 year ago

godlike video, highlighting a major problem in the sector is really needed right now

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