@xssfox well yes, that is fraud. please let the commerce commission know.

people (me, and please put them in touch to verify it) are insisting the commerce commission boot Amazon out of Aotearoa. it has no place here.

Temu too would obviously be appreciated.

those types of organisation are classed as wealth extraction systems. they are not real retailers.

that fact alone is clear grounds for making them illegal to operate here.

@xssfox

I would never consider Amazon a reliable source to evaluate itself, so my automatic goto is to search the "Ten Best" consumer lists, which gives you a much better basis for assessment.

Occasionally I see a review that gives me some info, but usually I don't treat them as reliable, in general.

Also, lot of clumsy people break or misuse their product, then blame the maker.

@xssfox Wow, this is so much worse than I would expect even from them. I'd expect them to just make it incredibly annoying.

I haven't bought anything on Amazon since January 2025; it's getting rough over there.

@xssfox

Had the same experience for a different shopping platform where they literally *take reviews from other shops selling similar products* for shops that havent sold much of that item to pass it off as their own with a tiny grey disclaimer.

How sick is that. False advertising to the extremities, and I've been watching the downpour of scummy practices from this same company over the years.

@xssfox Amazon is a dropshipping marketplace and scammer paradise, not a reputable company.

The sooner everybody understands that, the earlier we can boycott that awful anti-human company out of existence.

I wish I hadn't bought - woops I mean "licensed" - a whole bunch of movies from their platform.

My media library being held hostage by them is probably the only thing keeping me tethered to this awful corporation.

@xssfox

1. Best to ignore reviews on retail sites. They're there to sell, not inform.

2. I quit Amazon after the local distribution center's gig-work Amazon Logistics drivers began deliberately failing to deliver about 25% of my orders. They'd drop several packages at one doorway, then send the same "verification" photo to every one of those several customers. Amazon customer service eventually refused my calls claiming I'd asked for too many refunds. I'd actually never asked for any.

@xssfox I'm able to click through and see the one-start review. Which I think means they're hiding it from you specifically for some reason.

You might be pulling a thread at something even more interesting than Amazon helping scammers.