Comment by galaxyLogic

> 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.