And cost alot less

Half the stuff on there is already resold from Aliexpress with 400% markup.

I have a friend who's shopped on Aliexpress, knowing full well that the stuff they're buying is cheap, and has never been disappointed by what they got. You basically just have to check the reviews and don't fall into an obvious scam (like a Switch for 10 dollars)

@@mpf1947 yep, blame "web3.0 crashcourses" that use AI to basically script and use an API to do exactly that; dropship from alibaba/aliexpress to amazon

Amazon went to complete shit right after wish blew up in the US, and I honestly think the two things are related, I think Chinese sellers realized they could just sell straight to Americans and started to set up shop in/with Amazon

Yup my FFVII Rebirth Deluxe Edition arrived with a cracked CD Case for the soundtrack inside

The amazon wagie packing out ur stuff doesn't care, they gotta make rate.

That's happenned to me with Play Asia as well. "Who cares is this costs twice as much as the regular version? It's only one game, it's going in the bubble mailer. If he wanted it in a box, he should have bought three copies, right?"

​@MatchesPeaches had an interesting experience with getting that game from the square enix store (before anyone says, I know now not to order direct from them lol). They sent the steelbook with a painfully obvious print defect. It took a month for them to send a replacement. It's got a big ol dent on the back. 😁😁😁

@@strike123456789it’s also how Amazon stores their packages in their pick aisles. No quality control. They just stuff the bins with as much product as possible regardless of whether or not the items will damage each other

I hope scott and anyone else who saw the SD Card portion of the vid see this comment. Another thing to note is transfer speeds are probably going to be garbage in comparison to what you'd normally get. So you might not even be able to record in eg. 4k at all, or even if you can getting the data off will be a pain in the ass from waiting.

Is there any software you're aware of to test for this?

He fell for the fake flash storage scam that Atomic Shrimp warned us about.

Scott is such a normie at times. You would expect someone like him was aware of this type of scams, since he's been working with huge files for years

Erm no, Amazon should be aware of this and do something about it, not Scott.

On the other hand, Amazon is really often putting the mailing sticker directly on the product and sending it without a box now

My local equivalent to Gamestop had the gall to activate DLC codes for physical games

Re: car dealerships. I bought a new car last year, told the dealership I won't be paying if their logo and sticker are on the car. They removed it without a fuss.

God yes, I hate ordering gamestop because they do that. For black Friday, I bought like 8 games for about 15 bucks each, all were supposed to be brand new. Turns out, only about 2 of them were factory sealed brand new while the other 6 were opened (the boxes were slightly damaged too mind you) with the disks not even in the holder part, they were placed in a cheap CD case envelope and put on top of where it should be. Returned those games the very next morning

​@@BackdoorBarnyardThat's only if you opt in to that at checkout

a few years ago I bought a DS game and then when it arrived it was just a cheap flash cart with the rom for the game on it lol... but generally my experiences buying games have been good

The ONLY time I bought a 'stock image' game off E-Bay was in 2019 when I bought 'Shantae 3DS'. It came CIB in the original cellophane and it only cost me £15. He had two; I SHOULD'VE bought them both. I later sold mine about three years later for £90 on E-Bay with ACTUAL photos. #ActualTrueStory

I'm that way about anything from eBay. If it's a stock image of the thing I want, I'm not buying it.

I buy sealed games on eBay as long as the user rating is no less than a 99.5%.

@@leighdappa Amateur hour. I bought it for 1 cent and sold it for 1,000 USD. #ActualNerdDorkGeek

You also don't have to pay extra for shipping. I usually go to physical stores.

And you help your local economy.

I’m the UK they are closing down physical stores

@@12thMandalorianprobably because they went bankrupt from not making enough physical sales. Too late for some of these stores

But all the good stores are hours away and are usually just as much a shot in the dark as online

Amazon has quit giving a **** about the user experience or product quality.

Their layout is a nightmare, a cluster of ui vomit

@@_PinkiePie. and it loops soo much just using the app sometimes it just crashes cause instead of sending you back to a previous page it makes a new loop so to speak its so annoying

As a former Amazon employee, their treatment of employees is grossly exaggerated. As far as zero skill jobs go, the pay was good, the benefits decent, and the work itself manageable. I've had far worse jobs. I wouldn't want to work there forever but it wasn't the hellscape people make it out to be. Also the 4 day 40 hour workweek is much better than the 5 day 40 hour week that's standard.

The "no extra box" shipping option was a thing for years before, but it wasn't as common as it is now. Friends of mine have had shit nearly stolen because of this nonsense, and they'll swear up and down that Amazon didn't give them the option for an Amazon box. Tbh, I'm starting to believe them.

The secret here is to mark that the item is a gift - that way it will always be packaged with an outer box and even a gift bag around the item. It's a couple extra bucks but worth the box being safe.

That annoys the piss out of me. How would you know I didn't want to keep the box you just ruined?!

That's no guarantee either! I have clicked that box, and it still ships as is on the box and not in an Amazon box.

Getting it from Gamestop is spotty too, even new

Man, its not *that* serious on something like switch since its not region locked. Annoying i guess but if it bugs me that much ill reprint the boxart

@@2-Way_Intersection I have OCD when it comes to collections, so it's def a big deal for me. If I'm paying for something, it better be what I want...cuz that's what I'm paying for.

​@@Marc_AraujoI agree

@@2-Way_Intersectionnah it's pretty serious if you pay for something and you don't get what you're paying for. Sending it back and reporting that the seller isn't selling what they're claiming to sell is a very reasonable thing to do.

@@Marc_Araujo youre paying for a copy of the game and youre getting a copy of the game. I get its annoying but like, you cant expect a refund for that

Based off what my brother who worked higher up in the operations department, Amazon has been one foot off the cliff since 2019. Back when their webservice crashed in (i think) 2021, if it went 24 hours it would have actually killed them.

This sounds absolutely bonkers. So I buy an item from a seller, get shipped the same item from a different seller, who may have even priced it differently. But then even though I bought from X seller but am receiving Y's product. X seller still gets the sale? As soon as it goes into Amazon's warehouse and gets marked as Used or New, they get sorted into a bin and it literally doesn't matter who I buy from? Meaning you should quite literally always buy the cheapest option because regardless of the individual sellers quality levels, Amazon's gonna sell me whatever they have even if it's not from the seller? That sounds like a logistical nightmare and absolutely absurd from the customer service perspective.

I’ve never worked in an Amazon warehouse. But I’ve sold on Amazon before and I don’t think that’s how it works(?). When I sent in my items, I had to label all of them, presumably so they could identify which inventory was mine and which was someone else’s.

Everyone remembers their first

I got sent a Joy-Con charging grip from Japan. Perfectly usable, but I feel lucky it was just a USB peripheral instead of something else power-related lol

I think the PEGI rating is better then the American one anyway, more strict on violence, less so on sex and swearing, and got numbers instead of vague age groups, but I'm biased cause I grew up with PEGI.

@@LillyP-xs5qe I don't think the conversation has anything to do with PEGI, unless _Personal Trainer: Walking_ contains a lot of violence, sex or swearing

lol, same thing with me when I bought my copy of Xenoblade 3 on Amazon when it came out. It took two weeks to arrive after I placed the order, and now it's the only European copy of a game I own. Good thing the Switch isn't region locked. Thanks Jeff.

Does it really matter with a movie tho? Like yeah, obviously theres different picture quality and some special features, but the movie is still the same

Yeah, even when I manage to filter out paid / bot reviews, half the time I have to read through 5 or 6 before I realize that 10 completely different products have all been lumped together on one page, so none of the reviews are even of the product.

@@2-Way_Intersection It _ABSOLUTELY_ matters. The DVD release of a movie and the Blu-Ray release of can be of widely varying quality. One could be a quick cash grab and the other a special-collection, high-fidelity version. One version might even be chopped up to fit the wrong aspect ratio.

@@MegaZeta ...so just get the bluray cause its probably that one Mate, unless its an older movie, who even buys DVDs anymore unless its the only player they have? This really feels like a non issue. if you care that much, why are you bothering with amazon reviews anyway?

@2-Way_Intersection Format upgrades are not always done properly, making the picture or sound worse despite being on a better disc, and some CDs and DVDs can rot over time. There's whole channels dedicated to criticizing these transfers, like Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader. Also, the special features do matter to some people, that's why they're there. In my case, I'm much more likely to buy a movie/show with (good) commentaries and/or making-of documentaries. Not to mention the region issue Scott mentioned in the video, the kind of case it comes in and the quality of it, any physical extras it may or may not come with, whether or not there was an error in the manufacturing or packaging process, etc. A lot of reissues have major differences, like with Futurama where the first and second issues of the Fox season DVDs have entirely different kinds of cases with different art that take up a different amount of space. Used movies also have the problem of seller reputation. At least three times I've bought a used movie or TV season and received either the wrong set entirely or the wrong disc in the set, most recently when I got two Two Towers Part 1 discs (one in place of Part 2) in my otherwise correct LOTR blu-ray extended set. Also, personally, anything I buy a physical copy of, besides games, I've already seen some other way, so actual reviews of the content of the movie are less than helpful to me.

People should wonder why they're called consumers

I prefer the chicken bake myself

You are absolutely correct. However. I will say even always doing that I've had a few things that still ship something different than what I ordered or just not the right color or something. But you are still correct that is the best way to avoid getting scammed or inconvenienced

That isn’t always a sure fire way to prevent yourself from getting ripped off. Amazon usually mixes their own stock with stock from sellers that have their fulfillment handled by Amazon, so there have been cases where people have gotten bootlegs even when they made sure their order is “fulfilled, sold, and shipped by Amazon”, that being said, in my experience I haven’t received a bootleg SD card on orders that were from Amazon themselves and not a third-party seller.

@@MysteryMii I have received a bootleg MicroSD card from an order that was "sold by Amazon". There is no escape. Well there is, just don't buy from Amazon.

I ha e bought three new switch games on Amazon recently that were in the shrink wrap and bent to the point of the case not working

Amazon is known for closing people's accounts if they return too much

I mean, i kinda get it bc they probably cant legally sell anything without an ESRB rating

I only use gamestop as my free pre-owned game rental store.

@@2-Way_Intersection At this day and age, shouldn't we have an international age rating standard?

@@MelloWatermello Regional sensibilities are too different, anything too sexual ESRB throws a fit, anything too violent CERO throws a fit

I swear i hate that, especially when some games having dlc its not compatible cause of different region looking at u playstation.

achoo

The website or the forest?

@@Sgt-Wolf I think both

​@@Sgt-Wolf yes.

The Amazon Rain Forrest is the best jungle ever 🦜🐒🌲😌

I was scrolling through the comments to see if this happened to anyone else, happened with me with Kingdom Hearts 3 and it’s DLC, I was so confused why the DLC never showed up until I realized that I had the PEGI version

I generally don't like to have games from other regions because of this. I actually got a copy of Tears of the Kingdom from the airport in Sydney, Australia only because it was cheaper than if I bought it in Canada.

​@@GenerationZ313Tears of the Kingdom, thankfully, has the exact same cartridge for every region, so you don't need to worry about incompatible DLC there. The game just checks your console's region and defaults to whatever language corresponds to it. A lot of Switch games use the same system now, but early in the Switch's life, it wasn't as much of a standard.

Probably bc of return scams

Walmart's online store had a seller that sold me a fake DualShock 4 once. I almost didn't get my money back on that, I had to go to the BBB.

@@dapperfan44 Yeah, Walmart is another one where most people assume that everything is coming FROM WALMART, when most stuff is not. I think it's really an issue, because it gives people a false sense of security.

Which ones? I still have my Metroid Prime 4 pre-order from 7 years ago on Amazon. Back when they were giving 20% off on all game preorders.

Well thats because nobody is buying these trash games in europe

Lol what world do you live in ebay is not that nice bro if anything its just as bad 😂

@@coolguychapman6685 thats just my experience bro, i obviously dont speak for everybody. call it luck if youd like

I also work at amazon, I can vouch for this. I personally take precaution with games and electronics but yeah. Usually, the items can be stowed anywhere so they can be stored with other miscellaneous items like clothes or whatever. That said, the item is handled by multiple people so it increases the risk of someone being careless, unfortunately.

I collect blu rays, hate the massive age rating on German ones haha

@@tomadams7553 Ugh, Germans and their ages.

@@HaloTropical real (I’m of German descent)

Is the movie dubbed in German or can you still watch it in English?

@@alexandercorbett1147 just about all movies have a language setting before they start but it just bothers me that I assumed I would be getting the blu ray and instead received the German limited release with useless post cards

oh my god that’s hilarious, i’d actually love to have that lmao

I have pokemon Y and omega ruby on my shelf

That’s me with Best Buy. They literally just grabbed my order that was ready for pickup and sold it to someone else and just simply canceled my order.

@@mr.jellyfish5544 Bro whaaaaat??? How do you know they did that?? That's so scummy of them!

@@Canadiansamurai got first email confirmation with Sora amiibo purchase. Got second email confirming ready for pickup. Then as I was on my way to pick it up, I got the order cancelled email. I was already nearby so I still went asked what this was about and the one of the managers straight up said, “yeah, it seems your order was accidentally sold to someone else.” I asked “how!! it already had my name on it!!” and just shrugged. . . . Accidentally. . . I ended buying Sora in Japan the following month, which ended up being cheaper thanks to the current exchange rate. . . . I buy most of my games whenever I’m in Japan now, mainly because of the exchange rate. But when I’m in the states, I’ll take the risk with Amazon, at least going Karen mode has gotten me discounts and partial refunds with them. Or I’ll go to Target if I really have to. However, from Scott’s POV, I get it, seeing a pegi-18 logo would somehow rub me the wrong way as well.

Jeff Bezozniak

Games that use dlc might still run into region issues. Beware

​@@piotr78true and some save files are locked to a region too.

At least you can play it region free

I think it depends on how well his local Amazon warehouses do their job.

​@@kevinrosario2729yes but why would an American local warehouse have European versions of games? Have they stopped making them in America?

​@@kevinrosario2729 But why are PAL copies sitting around in an American Amazon warehouse in the first place? I wonder if it's just a case of redirecting stock after analysing demand.