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Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy'::Products have appeared on the platform with odd titles that are seemingly related to OpenAI's usage policy.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Amazon has essentially become a drop shipping front for AliExpress. You're getting the exact same terrible, knockoff products, just marked up and stored in an Amazon warehouse so you get it in two days instead of two weeks. They're both shitty, but at least with AliExpress you aren't paying extra for the middleman to make a profit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it completely depends on what you’re buying. Don’t blame Amazon that your $15 wireless earbuds with no brand name feels cheap and gets hot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don't blame Amazon for the products being shit. I blame Amazon for not doing anything about the fact the shit product has 3000 5 star reviews that are word for word on hundreds of different products.

[–] notasandwich1948 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iirc drop shipping is where they also ship it from China too. so the person dropshipping doesn't have to keep an inventory of things

[–] notasandwich1948 4 points 1 year ago

and yes ofc that also happens on Amazon