[jmainguy]

Yeah I would never buy anything electronic, or anything to consume or put on my body from amazon.

[Eisenstein]

If you actually want cheap highly reproducable electronics amazon is fine. It is alibaba but twice as expensive for an order of magnitude reduction in shipping speed.

[verall]

With a functional return policy!

[FpUser]

I do not like Amazon for many reasons (treating employees being the main). However I bought crapload of electronics there for personal use and for my business and it was fine either right from the start or was refunded / replaced without problems even when not being fulfilled by Amazon.

[lukas099]

Is Amazon really that bad to work for? I had two roommates who were warehouse managers, and they didn't really seem to dislike their jobs much.

[amluto]

This works poorly when you buy something like an SD card, store something you care about on it, and then try to read it back off the card later.

[theonething]

Even if you buy it from the manufacture's official Amazon store?

[eloff]

Thanks to Amazon comingling inventory, you can buy something from one seller and have it fulfilled from the inventory of another. There's no protection from fakes and counterfeits. Even the reviews aren't enough to be sure.