Comment by bee_rider
2 years ago
It is annoying that these sellers do this, but it is a pretty obvious thing to do, it is economically incentivized, and so it is totally unsurprising.
The weird thing, IMO, is that Amazon doesn’t see this as a big problem that they need to solve.
I mean if I was to give somebody advice as to which cables they should buy on Amazon, it would have to be: use a brand you know and make sure you buy it directly from their account, and if there’s no such brand, don’t buy a cable from Amazon… but then I guess nobody asks.
> The weird thing, IMO, is that Amazon doesn’t see this as a big problem that they need to solve.
Not so weird I think. They pretty much have a monopoly so what do they care. The more Amazon is used as the sales-channel the more money Amazon makes. And most users don't have a way of testing their cables. If a cable stops working it is easy to assume the user somehow broke the cable or its connectors themselves.
> make sure you buy it directly from their account
Commingling makes this advice useless.
It's amazing what people fail to notice when it pays their bills.