Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes
My favorite Amazon scam is the Amazon Ship of Theseus[0].  You sell a product, normally a cheap electronic, and build up a decent corpus of positive reviews.  A good example is a USB-C cable or something.  Then you decide you want to sell a new product in a more competitive subcategory, like Bluetooth Headphones.  You then take the _existing_ listing and change it piece by piece.  First the pictures, then the title, then the price, etc.  Until you have a listing for your headphones that comes with 5,000 pre-made positive reviews!  Sure they're for a totally different product, but that doesn't affect the rankings.<p>I see this all the time.  If I go back in my order history and click on old products often the same "id" now maps to a totally different thing.<p>For this reason I have basically stopped ordering from Amazon.  I find that Walmart has like 99% of the inventory but none of it is fake (some is junk, but it's the junk I asked for).  Same prices, same ship speed, no fake shit.<p>0: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus</a>