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I wish I had a better understanding of the bimodal distribution of customer satisfaction with Amazon.

I know high volume customers who have 99.5% success with Amazon orders, and others who would say "pretty much everything I buy is used or fake".

First assumption is that it boils down to differences in product types. Certainly some types attract more seller fraud. But I wonder if there's also a region or distribution center variability, like the East Cupcake Regional warehouse does a crappy job of inspecting returns. Or the delivery manager in West Cupcake hires crappy drivers.

Amazon must do this analysis internally. I'd love to understand it better.




I’ve noticed this too. People complain about counterfeit products but I have never had a problem.

I basically avoid name brand fungibles. Find any two hard drives and they look and function the same, which means I’m not buying that on Amazon.

But I see people complaining about counterfeit products but they buy batteries and hard drives from Amazon and I would never.




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