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13 Jun 2017, 10:04 AM | #1 |
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Blatant fraud on Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00E4NOGJU/
The above listing embodies a type of fraud which (so I've heard) is often practised on eBay -- charge an apparently reasonable price for an item, which is given in large type up front, but also charge an exorbitant "shipping" fee in the small print. So you buy this one small choc bar, thinking that you've paid the advertised price of £2.70, only to find when it's delivered that you have actually been charged £11.66. (I don't see how a shipping cost of £9 for one small item from Austria to Britain is realistic; I have, several times, had much heavier and bulkier items sent all the way from Hong Kong, and the shipping hasn't cost nearly as much.) The worst part of this is, Amazon aren't allowing reviews pointing out that this is a rip-off (they have rejected at least three in the past 24 hours), so they are participating in the fraud. |
13 Jun 2017, 04:25 PM | #2 |
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It's not a fraud: before you go the the checkout the total cost is clearly displayed £2.70 + £8.96 UK delivery. Whether the delivery cost is too high is a different question, but the customer is shown the total price and has a chance to take it or leave it.
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13 Jun 2017, 09:16 PM | #3 | |
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15 Jun 2017, 05:37 AM | #4 |
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Not sure it rises to the level of "fraud," since they are not stating one thing and doing another. But, that doesn't mean it isn't a bad way of doing business. Not sure how or why Amazon rejects feedback on items, but whatever method they use I find that generally if an item is very popular and there is lots of feedback the more the star rating can be trusted. However, when something only has a few people providing opinions I often detect bias and/or misinformation. The most annoying to me is when they allow reviews to be posted that are not accurate--describing the wrong thing, or having factual errors. In one case I ordered something and they sent another product that did the same thing; however, they functioned completely differently.
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