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Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people

35 points| Umofomia | 1 year ago |arstechnica.com

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yedava|1 year ago

A good rule of thumb for shopping an Amazon - avoid anything that you can ingest, apply on your skin, and anything electrical.

These are better to buy in a brick and mortar store where a human verifies that the product has indeed come from supplier who is verified in some way. Of course this doesn't make brick and mortar products automatically safe, but they are far better than Amazon where quality control is offloaded onto the customers.

pknomad|1 year ago

This is a good rule of thumb. I'd even go further and say use Amazon as a last resort merchandiser maybe except for few areas like comixology. I remember seeing threads here about how Amazon mixes SKUs of different origins so it feels like they're complicit with the fraudulent sellers.

znpy|1 year ago

I've also stopped buying usb stick drives as well as micro-sd cards: the chance of getting a counterfeit piece of junk is just too high, and has happened to me more than once.

On the other hand, my local brick and mortar store (Esselunga) has high quality Kioxia usb devices for a fairly good price. And Kioxia is high-end stuff anyways, so worth spending a few more euros.

neilv|1 year ago

I used to say those same rules for Dollar Tree.

I'm not that strict about Amazon, but I decided that I don't trust buying OTC pharmaceuticals from Amazon. Even though I hate dealing with the current vendor, since they're bizarrely incompetent a dozen different ways, I suspect they are at least much better about supply chain integrity.

Sabinus|1 year ago

Incredible they tried on the "we're just a logistics company not responsible for products" when they control so much of the sale, purchasing and stocking process.

tamimio|1 year ago

Amazon used to be somewhat trustworthy, but now I trust my local thrift store more. The last time I bought something from Amazon was around 1.5 years ago. There are even stores that have a business model of selling Amazon’s returned products!

apricot13|1 year ago

A lot of the brick and mortar stores have started joining up with third party sellers now that you can do same day click and collect on. Places like the range, b&m, b&q etc that you might have thought you were 'safe' from the cheaper low quality products but they hide it behind a lot of dark patterns that the average consumer wouldn't know!

bankcust08385|1 year ago

So I guess there will be more Bigclivedotcom deathdapter teardowns. This has been a common occurrence since 2016: https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0

There need to be more class-action lawsuits against Amazon, and the FTC and CPSC need to surveil Amazon's products and take regular enforcement action.