• Kng
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    19 hours ago

    What even is the purpose of pulling this scam on a site like amazon. 99% of the time the customer is going to return the item since it definitely won’t fit in the socket.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      7 hours ago

      They lose nothing if you do return it and for the odd person who doesn’t return it they stand to earn hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

      The problem is the marketplaces shut the accounts down only for them to pop back up again to following day. The businesses need to be more proactive about this but they’re not massively incentivized to do so because it isn’t hurting their bottom line.

      No one is doing anything about this because the only people who lose out are the customers and who cares about them?

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      7 hours ago

      Amazon bundle stuff from multiple sellers in the same location. They have no idea which of their third party sellers did it, and indeed could even be that a customer returned it for a full refund.