Some shoppers are fleeing Amazon because of counterfeit goods

I received fake toothpaste from Amazon. The toothpaste gave me asthma and the packaging and consistency were different from store bought. I left a review stating the item I received was fake and then the review was removed by Amazon. Amazon emailed me stating that the item is genuine and then I was permanently banned from reviewing items. I appealed and never heard back.

It’s not just fakes, “Amazon Basics” brand stuff is often crap as well<p>I ended my Amazon prime account after I ordered iPhone cables that literally fall out of the charging port<p>Before that I ordered a hdmi splitter that makes a horrendous noise when I turn the tv off.<p>It just feels like Amazon now, everything is flea market quality

Related report from The Telegraph newspaper:<p><i>Inside the Amazon swamp: how fakes and frauds engulfed the world’s biggest bookshop</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;X1P5v" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;X1P5v</a><p>&gt; &quot;The academic Martin Kleppmann...recently discovered that fake copies of his 2017 book <i>Designing Data-Intensive Applications</i> were widely available. “I only discovered [it was going on] because of the number of reviews from genuine readers that started appearing, complaining about poor print [quality] and missing pages,” he says.

I fled because I was paying yearly for two day shipping that was closer to 7. Now in the situations where absolutely nobody else has something and I have to order from amazon my packages show up faster than they did with prime.

I refuse them. I haven&#x27;t used them in years and I get so much more benefits. There is zero reason to use them these days...