Can you get ripped off on amazon

Buyers can get a refund, but the scam hits sellers hard, since they're on the hook for reimbursing customers who never received their merchandise. Margina Dennis, a professional makeup artist working in New York City, told NBC News she still has more than one hundred emails to answer from angry customers who are wondering why they never received a Nintendo Switch hackers posted from her account.

That's in addition to the tens of thousands of dollars in debt she is now contesting after her account was compromised. We can't tell you when or if. The issue came to Dennis' attention when she said she received hundreds of emails from buyers complaining they never received the Nintendo Switch the ordered from her account. Amazon sent Dennis a note on March 29th saying she may have been hacked, however she said she had to wait days for her account to be taken down since the hacker changed the password and she was unable to log in.

She added, she would never shop or sell on Amazon again, "if it's the last thing on Earth. The company is working to make sure sellers like Dennis don't have to handle the financial burden of the hacks, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. But the company has long denied such accusations. Speaking to Congress under oath last year , founder Jeff Bezos said the e-commerce giant has a rule prohibiting its employees from using data on third-party sellers to help its private-label business. The spokesperson did not reply to a question about whether the Reuters report shows Bezos misled Congress.

The report did not say that Bezos was aware of the India strategy. So much of the tomfoolery on Amazon can be traced to ranking highly in Amazon search and, by extension, Google searches. The difference between the top few spots can make or break businesses. Problem: The Amazon BS-du jour is fake reviews. This phenomenon has been widely documented by the likes of NPR , Yahoo , the Reply All podcast, the Washington Post and many, many more, just in the last few months.

Problem: Nowadays, virtually every product on Amazon and the greater retail internet, really is constantly on sale. Behold, Camel Camel Camel — the old school internet-looking Amazon price tracker.