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0 pointsfmajid3y ago0 comments

Well, I distrust Amazon for anything electrical or buy my electronics and optics from the fine folks at B&H Photo, which is owned by a (Satmar) Hasidic family. Sure, that means I can’t shop on Saturdays and have a much deeper knowledge of the Jewish high holidays calendar than I’d normally care to develop, but I don’t worry about a counterfeit battery blowing up in my face or a SSD upgrade for my computer being a 16GB flash card fraudulently reprogrammed to advertise itself to my computer as a 1TB one.

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nomel3y ago

> Well, I distrust Amazon for anything electrical

I learned this the hard way when I received a counterfeit playstation controller, straight from the "Sony" store. For some reason, none of my reviews, even the positive ones, have posted since that one, which included pictures of a teardown.

astura3y ago

Did it damage your playstation?

nomel3y ago

It was wireless and never connected to the machine, so I'm not sure it was capable of damage. But it also didn't have much of a chance since it would only stay connected for about 30 seconds, after pairing.

dylan6043y ago

Even B&H was susceptible to knock-off batteries. Somewhere in the supply chain, fake batteries were introduced, but not found until sold to customers. B&H actually handled this in the only sane way vs the Amazon shrug of the shoulders.

Supply chain attacks are real and even reputable vendors are susceptible. The difference is how the vendors react with their customers that separates the good vendor from the bad vendor.

fmajidOP3y ago

The difference is Amazon only pretends to care, and only cares about enough plausible deniability to deflect lawsuits (the courts are catching on and this no longer works). Their practice of stickerless commingled inventory ensures that even buying from Amazon itself is no guarantee of not getting a counterfeit product.

dylan6043y ago

You seem to be pretty generous in saying Amazon pretends. I thought they gave up all connotations of giving a shit long ago

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nomel3y ago

> Well, I distrust Amazon for anything electrical

astura3y ago

Did it damage your playstation?

nomel3y ago

dylan6043y ago

Supply chain attacks are real and even reputable vendors are susceptible. The difference is how the vendors react with their customers that separates the good vendor from the bad vendor.

fmajidOP3y ago

dylan6043y ago

You seem to be pretty generous in saying Amazon pretends. I thought they gave up all connotations of giving a shit long ago

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