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They got bought by that company that decided on quantity over quality and enshittified it by adding "market" sellers.
Order a Power supply. Realize it was from a market seller 2 minutes later. Attempt to cancel the purchase and get denied because "It has already shipped". Contact support to demand cancelling again, and they won't do it. Support the scammer instead. 6 Weeks later. Oh, the tracking number for the package got rerouted to some weird address in a city 500 miles away. Contact NewEgg and seller, because that is the NewEgg rule. Seller says "oopsie" and will fix. Wait 6 more weeks. Get a dropshipped charm bracelet in the mail. Tell NewEgg about it several times over that 3 months and even point to a post on reddit of over a dozen other customers caught up in this scam. Something NE They make me mail them the charm. 2 weeks later, finally get the refund.
Scammy companies helping scammy companies.
I don't buy anything that expensive on Amazon because of their support of things like this. I drive the hour and a half to Microcenter and even there, I pop open the boxes right in front of them at the service counter.
Do newer RAM chips actually weigh more?
Presumably because if those returns were processed, it would give Amazon cause to take action against them.
They have 0 quality control, and at a professional level are a complete pain in the ass to work with.
Honestly, the whole "just buy from someone else" argument maybe would hold water if everyone else wasn't so incredibly shit at least here in the UK. Currys? It's a "buy an item, we will dispatch it at some point sometime, if you need to return it go through our chat where the agent will lie to you about your return options and then it will take a month to actually refund you".
Amazon is painless both in ordering and in customer service(in my experience, YMMV)
Context: My wife was selling products through Amazon about ten year ago, so we know quite a bit about the reality of being an Amazon seller. It should come as no surprise that she got out of there as soon as possible. Between the mafia-like competition you can encounter and Amazon's almost complete lack of interest in driving quality and honesty of their sellers, it just was not worth the pain and aggravation.
It's super low effort these days, and the single take is (IMHO) more important than perfect framing or audio as long as identifying details are legible at some point.
"While recording an unboxing can help document the condition of a product, such evidence is not guaranteed to resolve disputes with retailers or payment providers."