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Amazon Sells Fake, Dead Toshiba Hard Drives as New: Detailed Inspection & Proof of Their Scam (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I canceled Amazon Prime last month given that I've lost all trust in getting a functioning version of whatever I've ordered. This is some next-level shit.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This has been a problem on Amazon for ages. Unless you can confirm the seller on the Amazon listing is authentic, you should never buy any storage devices on Amazon, ever.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 2 months ago

It doesn't even matter if it's a trusted seller. Amazon puts their returned items back with the new products and they stock the items from every seller together. You can have 10 sellers with a genuine item and 1 with a counterfeit item and have a chance of getting the counterfeit item from any of them because they all share the same stock.