A Wall Street Journal investigation found 4,152 items for sale on Amazon.com’s site that have been declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled or are banned by federal regulators.
A new investigative report undertaken by journalists at the Wall Street Journal has revealed numerous potentially harmful products being sold at Amazon.com. Among the problems revealed in this deep-dive, independent laboratory-tested investigation were a number of products containing toxic levels of chemicals.
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Spin the Wheel and Hope for the Best
If you have shopped at amazon.com in recent times you know that it has gone from a tightly regulated seller of hard to find books produced by independent publishers (and a few years later, highly curated electronic and household products) to the world’s largest flea market–replete with counterfeit products (including listings marked, ‘Sold by Amazon’) and what can only be described as pure junk, many times supplied by sketchy companies located in China. Skimming consumer feedback on random product types reveals that these days purchases on amazon.com can be risky business as the return policy may not even apply…
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damn. i dont use amazon much. but damn. i had no idea.
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Personally I think there needs to be an organized boycott of Amazon. The way they treat their workers is despicable.
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Been boycotting Amazon for years now and this is another nail in their coffin, may they rot in hell…
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Good for you, Sha’Tara. While the low prices may look tempting, people are probably only hurting themselves in the long run by giving their hard earned money to Amazon.
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they also sell neonicotinoids. destroy young peoples backs through work injuries, and have a predatory business model, pay no taxes deep state bezos is fake has never programmed, a fake made thing that is a criminal
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Excellent point, jt, though I’m not exactly sure what you mean by Bezos being fake. There is a real person named Jeff Bezos, right?
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Was valery plame real? Is Bob Woodward the ex wpo invetigator who was a paid intelligence officer for 20 years before wapo and still is. Is bannon a real person. Also a paid intelligence officer for years and probanly continues to be. Bezos has never programmed any computer code in its life
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