At least twice they’ve put a collectors edition of something in a bubble mailer bag and it arrived completely mangled. I’ll never order a collectors edition of anything from Amazon ever again.
@MatchesPeaches7 ай бұрын
Yup my FFVII Rebirth Deluxe Edition arrived with a cracked CD Case for the soundtrack inside
@strike1234567897 ай бұрын
The amazon wagie packing out ur stuff doesn't care, they gotta make rate.
@mpf19477 ай бұрын
That's happenned to me with Play Asia as well. "Who cares is this costs twice as much as the regular version? It's only one game, it's going in the bubble mailer. If he wanted it in a box, he should have bought three copies, right?"
@codyr.487 ай бұрын
@MatchesPeaches had an interesting experience with getting that game from the square enix store (before anyone says, I know now not to order direct from them lol). They sent the steelbook with a painfully obvious print defect. It took a month for them to send a replacement. It's got a big ol dent on the back. 😁😁😁
@flaviparous7 ай бұрын
@@strike123456789it’s also how Amazon stores their packages in their pick aisles. No quality control. They just stuff the bins with as much product as possible regardless of whether or not the items will damage each other
@BackdoorBarnyard7 ай бұрын
If you think Amazon is bad, remember how GameStop would unwrap a game, put an unremovable sticker on the case, remove the game so an employee can "test" it... Then sell the game to you full price as "new"... Which tbh still feels better than car dealers who feel entitled to turn the bumper of your brand new, factory ordered car into a billboard.
@BackdoorBarnyard7 ай бұрын
On the other hand, Amazon is really often putting the mailing sticker directly on the product and sending it without a box now
@Geeler7 ай бұрын
My local equivalent to Gamestop had the gall to activate DLC codes for physical games
@spartaninvirginia7 ай бұрын
Re: car dealerships. I bought a new car last year, told the dealership I won't be paying if their logo and sticker are on the car. They removed it without a fuss.
@MyBebopBlues7 ай бұрын
God yes, I hate ordering gamestop because they do that. For black Friday, I bought like 8 games for about 15 bucks each, all were supposed to be brand new. Turns out, only about 2 of them were factory sealed brand new while the other 6 were opened (the boxes were slightly damaged too mind you) with the disks not even in the holder part, they were placed in a cheap CD case envelope and put on top of where it should be. Returned those games the very next morning
@KaitouKaiju7 ай бұрын
@@BackdoorBarnyardThat's only if you opt in to that at checkout
@ALfillups7 ай бұрын
I won’t buy any games on eBay unless I see an actual picture of the game I’m purchasing. lol
@perkypears7 ай бұрын
a few years ago I bought a DS game and then when it arrived it was just a cheap flash cart with the rom for the game on it lol... but generally my experiences buying games have been good
@leighdappa7 ай бұрын
The ONLY time I bought a 'stock image' game off E-Bay was in 2019 when I bought 'Shantae 3DS'. It came CIB in the original cellophane and it only cost me £15. He had two; I SHOULD'VE bought them both. I later sold mine about three years later for £90 on E-Bay with ACTUAL photos. #ActualTrueStory
@MonkeysxMoo7 ай бұрын
I'm that way about anything from eBay. If it's a stock image of the thing I want, I'm not buying it.
@therealjaystone23447 ай бұрын
I buy sealed games on eBay as long as the user rating is no less than a 99.5%.
@MegaZeta7 ай бұрын
@@leighdappa Amateur hour. I bought it for 1 cent and sold it for 1,000 USD. #ActualNerdDorkGeek
@aortaplatinum7 ай бұрын
I've been boycotting Amazon for their treatment of their employees for years, but had to use their site to get a very specific tool for work. I was SHOCKED just how disorganized and confusing and messy the site was, especially with the duplicate listings and the multiple similar endings. Like holy shit, *eBay* makes more sense and is better organized. Amazon is a MASSIVE AND PROFESSIONAL RETAIL SUPERGIANT, and they still suck this much. It's absolutely insane that it's just... like this and they'll just send you fuckin whatever so long as it's got the same name. Like how is there not just one listing for each game and then you click on it and you select your console, region, and edition?! Region locking has existed for longer than region free stuff, VHS WAS REGION LOCKED WHAT ARE YOU DOING JEFF BEZOS
@johnmickey50177 ай бұрын
Amazon has quit giving a **** about the user experience or product quality.
@_PinkiePie.7 ай бұрын
Their layout is a nightmare, a cluster of ui vomit
@4our317 ай бұрын
@@_PinkiePie. and it loops soo much just using the app sometimes it just crashes cause instead of sending you back to a previous page it makes a new loop so to speak its so annoying
@WatanukiProductions6 ай бұрын
As a former Amazon employee, their treatment of employees is grossly exaggerated. As far as zero skill jobs go, the pay was good, the benefits decent, and the work itself manageable. I've had far worse jobs. I wouldn't want to work there forever but it wasn't the hellscape people make it out to be. Also the 4 day 40 hour workweek is much better than the 5 day 40 hour week that's standard.
@loathbringer5 ай бұрын
I hate how far I have to scroll just to find the reviews
@baLANDor7 ай бұрын
Regarding the bootleg sd card: Most bootlegs operate in a way that the card has a much smaller capacity like 16 or 32 GBs, but it's programmed to show up as a genuine 1 TB one. That way, there aren't any suspicions instantly, and the first few files that are created will work fine (as they fall within those 16-32 GBs), but when your data exceeds this actual capacity, it's just corrupted. So yeah. I'm sorry that happened, hopefully this can make you be aware of it more in the future.
@umbra10167 ай бұрын
I hope scott and anyone else who saw the SD Card portion of the vid see this comment. Another thing to note is transfer speeds are probably going to be garbage in comparison to what you'd normally get. So you might not even be able to record in eg. 4k at all, or even if you can getting the data off will be a pain in the ass from waiting.
@YourUncleBenis7 ай бұрын
Is there any software you're aware of to test for this?
@jackminer21487 ай бұрын
He fell for the fake flash storage scam that Atomic Shrimp warned us about.
@Qwerty102547 ай бұрын
Scott is such a normie at times. You would expect someone like him was aware of this type of scams, since he's been working with huge files for years
@tiredhippo827 ай бұрын
Erm no, Amazon should be aware of this and do something about it, not Scott.
@Venom-9a297 ай бұрын
As someone who works at the UPS Store and deals with Amazon returns everyday, this is so common. Amazon has been shipping so many things to people that people haven’t even bought or requested and makes their customers end up returning the item. Leaving everyone frustrated. I won’t be surprised if Amazon falls down and another company takes its place someday.
@SammyNail7 ай бұрын
Based off what my brother who worked higher up in the operations department, Amazon has been one foot off the cliff since 2019. Back when their webservice crashed in (i think) 2021, if it went 24 hours it would have actually killed them.
@FreakGeSt7 ай бұрын
Amazon is slowly become Aliexpress, but with Aliexpress you know is gonna be a bootleg.
@naruhearts17 ай бұрын
And cost alot less
@mpf19477 ай бұрын
Half the stuff on there is already resold from Aliexpress with 400% markup.
@lexsombersunrise7 ай бұрын
I have a friend who's shopped on Aliexpress, knowing full well that the stuff they're buying is cheap, and has never been disappointed by what they got. You basically just have to check the reviews and don't fall into an obvious scam (like a Switch for 10 dollars)
@nxtvim25217 ай бұрын
@@mpf1947 yep, blame "web3.0 crashcourses" that use AI to basically script and use an API to do exactly that; dropship from alibaba/aliexpress to amazon
@Yixdy7 ай бұрын
Amazon went to complete shit right after wish blew up in the US, and I honestly think the two things are related, I think Chinese sellers realized they could just sell straight to Americans and started to set up shop in/with Amazon
@Robospy17 ай бұрын
You'd be surprised how many people don't realize that lots of stuff on Amazon comes from 3rd parties and not Amazon. They don't make it very clear, so people just assume "Oh, this is the official product" When it's actually coming from some random 3rd party that's bootlegging because the page is the same as the official one.
@dapperfan447 ай бұрын
Walmart's online store had a seller that sold me a fake DualShock 4 once. I almost didn't get my money back on that, I had to go to the BBB.
@Robospy17 ай бұрын
@@dapperfan44 Yeah, Walmart is another one where most people assume that everything is coming FROM WALMART, when most stuff is not. I think it's really an issue, because it gives people a false sense of security.
@bubba8425 ай бұрын
If it says prime it is usually from Amazon. But lots of 3rd party sellers now have prime status. I personally have had no problems with any product with prime on it.
@HiddenGemsReviews7 ай бұрын
I had an issue with Amazon sending me a $150 collector's edition game to my house...without an outer box. They just slapped a shipping label on the game box itself, the corners got completely crushed in and there were scuff marks all over it from getting jostled around in the FedEx truck. Customer service's response when I brought all this up to them? "Why didn't you select the option to have it ship in an Amazon box then?" This was a pre-order from a year prior to them implementing their "You can opt-out of a box for whatever reason!" shipping option, and trying to explain that to customer service was like trying to pull teeth. Needless to say, I just pick them up from Best Buy/GameStop from now on.
@YourUncleBenis7 ай бұрын
The "no extra box" shipping option was a thing for years before, but it wasn't as common as it is now. Friends of mine have had shit nearly stolen because of this nonsense, and they'll swear up and down that Amazon didn't give them the option for an Amazon box. Tbh, I'm starting to believe them.
@ItsOrnil7 ай бұрын
The secret here is to mark that the item is a gift - that way it will always be packaged with an outer box and even a gift bag around the item. It's a couple extra bucks but worth the box being safe.
@dapperfan447 ай бұрын
That annoys the piss out of me. How would you know I didn't want to keep the box you just ruined?!
@Feenixfire90GamingTFG7 ай бұрын
That's no guarantee either! I have clicked that box, and it still ships as is on the box and not in an Amazon box.
@Geeler7 ай бұрын
Getting it from Gamestop is spotty too, even new
@SpiritumTimoris7 ай бұрын
Amazon went downhill when more people were using it as a "get rich quick" thing that social media has been showing. I try to stray from there and buy through a first party seller or go to a brick and mortar store. If it's retro, I'm SOL cause Ebay has insane prices and Amazon has terrible products
@extragoogleaccount60616 ай бұрын
Used to be companies in the US selling Products they bought from China, QCed, and packaged. Now it is just direct from the overseas companies without the filter and quality control of the intermediate step(s). So now many products are either outright scams (as Scott found out, any removable storage over 512gb is guaranteed to be a scam) or products so cheap that you feel scammed when you get them despite technically meeting the description.
@tecpaocelotl7 ай бұрын
Amazon has become a dumpster fire. It's why I still shop at stores.
@calebdonaldson87707 ай бұрын
You also don't have to pay extra for shipping. I usually go to physical stores.
@AlfredoPuente87 ай бұрын
And you help your local economy.
@12thMandalorian7 ай бұрын
I’m the UK they are closing down physical stores
@TheXclock7 ай бұрын
@@12thMandalorianprobably because they went bankrupt from not making enough physical sales. Too late for some of these stores
@YoungMrBlue7 ай бұрын
But all the good stores are hours away and are usually just as much a shot in the dark as online
@ahmadarefin7 ай бұрын
I like to think there is an alternate universe where Scott lives in Europe and is annoyed when the game he ordered on Amazon is a US copy and has the ESRB logo on it
@Marc_Araujo7 ай бұрын
If that happens (and it does), I'll send that shit right back and tell Amazon that the item was not as described by seller.
@2-Way_Intersection7 ай бұрын
Man, its not *that* serious on something like switch since its not region locked. Annoying i guess but if it bugs me that much ill reprint the boxart
@Marc_Araujo7 ай бұрын
@@2-Way_Intersection I have OCD when it comes to collections, so it's def a big deal for me. If I'm paying for something, it better be what I want...cuz that's what I'm paying for.
@ssyxji6597 ай бұрын
@@Marc_AraujoI agree
@OddRick31137 ай бұрын
@@2-Way_Intersectionnah it's pretty serious if you pay for something and you don't get what you're paying for. Sending it back and reporting that the seller isn't selling what they're claiming to sell is a very reasonable thing to do.
@2-Way_Intersection7 ай бұрын
@@Marc_Araujo youre paying for a copy of the game and youre getting a copy of the game. I get its annoying but like, you cant expect a refund for that
@edwardbrennan39637 ай бұрын
For those wondering. The bootleg SD cards are actually smaller than the sticker, like 32GB or 64GB. They program the controller on them to tell a computer or electronic that it's 1TB, so the device will keep writing, and since it's smaller, it will write over the existing data, corrupting it.
@Nerdtendo63667 ай бұрын
I bought a copy of Personal Trainer Walking on Amazon. It showed the box for the American copy, they sent me the Pal copy. “Walk with Me” is officially my first import game, so thank you Amazon
@liltoad90507 ай бұрын
Everyone remembers their first
@MegaZeta7 ай бұрын
I got sent a Joy-Con charging grip from Japan. Perfectly usable, but I feel lucky it was just a USB peripheral instead of something else power-related lol
@LillyP-xs5qe7 ай бұрын
I think the PEGI rating is better then the American one anyway, more strict on violence, less so on sex and swearing, and got numbers instead of vague age groups, but I'm biased cause I grew up with PEGI.
@MegaZeta7 ай бұрын
@@LillyP-xs5qe I don't think the conversation has anything to do with PEGI, unless _Personal Trainer: Walking_ contains a lot of violence, sex or swearing
@alexandercorbett11477 ай бұрын
lol, same thing with me when I bought my copy of Xenoblade 3 on Amazon when it came out. It took two weeks to arrive after I placed the order, and now it's the only European copy of a game I own. Good thing the Switch isn't region locked. Thanks Jeff.
@josephfox17107 ай бұрын
Amazon priorities speed over quality packing, people genuinely just toss packages around even if they clearly say fragile and it's encouraged
@fillerbunnyninjashark2717 ай бұрын
People should wonder why they're called consumers
@Guy-McPerson6 ай бұрын
No delivery service will treat your package any different if you write fragile on it. They even tell you as much in their terms of service. If you ship anything, either package it in a way it can survive six+ foot throws from the back of a truck, or pay extra for the employee to do it for you.
@bubba8425 ай бұрын
I ordered Blade Runner 2049non Blu Ray and it had a huge knife slash on the Blu Ray case. Fortunately, all I had to do was send a picture of the damage and they sent me a new one. I didn't even have to send the dabsgex one back.
@neighborhoodthreattv7 ай бұрын
I usually don't mind buying stuff from Amazon, but coalescing all of the versions of a product together is super frustrating, especially when it's different formats. You'll be looking for the Switch version of a game or the Blu-Ray version of a movie and you'll get PS5 and DVD reviews and you can't filter for that.
@2-Way_Intersection7 ай бұрын
Does it really matter with a movie tho? Like yeah, obviously theres different picture quality and some special features, but the movie is still the same
@MegaZeta7 ай бұрын
Yeah, even when I manage to filter out paid / bot reviews, half the time I have to read through 5 or 6 before I realize that 10 completely different products have all been lumped together on one page, so none of the reviews are even of the product.
@MegaZeta7 ай бұрын
@@2-Way_Intersection It _ABSOLUTELY_ matters. The DVD release of a movie and the Blu-Ray release of can be of widely varying quality. One could be a quick cash grab and the other a special-collection, high-fidelity version. One version might even be chopped up to fit the wrong aspect ratio.
@2-Way_Intersection7 ай бұрын
@@MegaZeta ...so just get the bluray cause its probably that one Mate, unless its an older movie, who even buys DVDs anymore unless its the only player they have? This really feels like a non issue. if you care that much, why are you bothering with amazon reviews anyway?
@neighborhoodthreattv7 ай бұрын
@2-Way_Intersection Format upgrades are not always done properly, making the picture or sound worse despite being on a better disc, and some CDs and DVDs can rot over time. There's whole channels dedicated to criticizing these transfers, like Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader. Also, the special features do matter to some people, that's why they're there. In my case, I'm much more likely to buy a movie/show with (good) commentaries and/or making-of documentaries. Not to mention the region issue Scott mentioned in the video, the kind of case it comes in and the quality of it, any physical extras it may or may not come with, whether or not there was an error in the manufacturing or packaging process, etc. A lot of reissues have major differences, like with Futurama where the first and second issues of the Fox season DVDs have entirely different kinds of cases with different art that take up a different amount of space. Used movies also have the problem of seller reputation. At least three times I've bought a used movie or TV season and received either the wrong set entirely or the wrong disc in the set, most recently when I got two Two Towers Part 1 discs (one in place of Part 2) in my otherwise correct LOTR blu-ray extended set. Also, personally, anything I buy a physical copy of, besides games, I've already seen some other way, so actual reviews of the content of the movie are less than helpful to me.
@scamazonprime7 ай бұрын
Sold on Amazon for 15+ years. It's a shtshow. If you do FBA, you can put labels on your products (could be counterfeit) and choose to add it to a pool with all sellers, and when your item sells, Amazon grabs it from a random pile. Horrible idea on Amazon's part.
@MrCed1227 ай бұрын
The problem with Amazon is that all their stock is mixed together. If 10 sellers are selling the same SD card, they'll just put all of them together in the warehouse and take one at random if one is sold by any of those sellers. If a single one is selling fake SD cards, then any of those 9 other sellers can unwillingly sell you a bootleg, so it's extremely difficult to know exactly who are actually selling fakes and who are just victims. Of course, Amazon being Amazon, they won't just make a better inventory of their stock to make it easier to recognize where everything is coming from, so they just ignore the problem, hoping it'll just go away (or more likely, not caring because it's cheaper to pay back a few hundreds people every day than actually solving the problem).
@YaBoiBigNutz7 ай бұрын
This sounds absolutely bonkers. So I buy an item from a seller, get shipped the same item from a different seller, who may have even priced it differently. But then even though I bought from X seller but am receiving Y's product. X seller still gets the sale? As soon as it goes into Amazon's warehouse and gets marked as Used or New, they get sorted into a bin and it literally doesn't matter who I buy from? Meaning you should quite literally always buy the cheapest option because regardless of the individual sellers quality levels, Amazon's gonna sell me whatever they have even if it's not from the seller? That sounds like a logistical nightmare and absolutely absurd from the customer service perspective.
@TheShadesOfBlack7 ай бұрын
I’ve never worked in an Amazon warehouse. But I’ve sold on Amazon before and I don’t think that’s how it works(?). When I sent in my items, I had to label all of them, presumably so they could identify which inventory was mine and which was someone else’s.
@minneelyyyy7 ай бұрын
that thing with the sans disk card likely means they spoofed the card to report 1TB to any devices you plug them into, but then when it goes to actually write data it's actually lower capacity and simply overwrites old files
@AstiLoyce7 ай бұрын
You should try to buy things that are “fulfilled, sold and shipped by Amazon” cuz third party sellers always try to pull some sort of bs
@akumapup7 ай бұрын
You are absolutely correct. However. I will say even always doing that I've had a few things that still ship something different than what I ordered or just not the right color or something. But you are still correct that is the best way to avoid getting scammed or inconvenienced
@MysteryMii7 ай бұрын
That isn’t always a sure fire way to prevent yourself from getting ripped off. Amazon usually mixes their own stock with stock from sellers that have their fulfillment handled by Amazon, so there have been cases where people have gotten bootlegs even when they made sure their order is “fulfilled, sold, and shipped by Amazon”, that being said, in my experience I haven’t received a bootleg SD card on orders that were from Amazon themselves and not a third-party seller.
@richardhunter97797 ай бұрын
@@MysteryMii I have received a bootleg MicroSD card from an order that was "sold by Amazon". There is no escape. Well there is, just don't buy from Amazon.
@fungusonus7 ай бұрын
I ha e bought three new switch games on Amazon recently that were in the shrink wrap and bent to the point of the case not working
@TheFleaX7 ай бұрын
The reason Bootleg cards corrupt your data is you think its a 1TB card when in reality its a 250mb card that programed to think it holds 1TB. So once it goes over the 250mb it will start writing over random data and corrupt it. NEVER accept or use bootleg or off brand cards. Your basically not getting what you pay for or think your getting.
@NeoVejiita7 ай бұрын
I stopped pre ordering games on Amazon because of this. They used to offer e3 discounts, but then they started treating people who ordered those copies as second rate citizens where their orders wouldn’t ship until later.
@JasonRoofie7 ай бұрын
To avoid buying bootlegs, always check to make sure the seller isn't some random company. But even if the pirchase says it ships directly from Amazon, theres still a possibility bootlegs will get mixed in inside the warehouse. If best buy or another tech store isn't viable, always be sure to use verification software on the card to test if it's legit or not. For work, you can't risk having a faulty product.
@staringcorgi64757 ай бұрын
Probably bc of return scams
@MatthewSmart7 ай бұрын
Glad to see Scott supporting the Costco hot dog cause!
@TheOneAndOnLEE.7 ай бұрын
I prefer the chicken bake myself
@orin67057 ай бұрын
The funny thing is that it's not always PAL copies either. I ordered Bloodborne on Amazon a few years back.....ended up getting sent a Brazilian copy.
@TheOnlyWaffles7 ай бұрын
It actually sucks for dlc tho. My brother got Splatoon 2 several years ago for Christmas, but it was ordered from Amazon, and go figure is was the European version. He wanted to get the Octo expansion and it wouldn’t work since he was trying to buy dlc for a game that was incompatible with the version we had. It was a whole process to get resolved, but we did in the end.
@thomassinger56297 ай бұрын
I was scrolling through the comments to see if this happened to anyone else, happened with me with Kingdom Hearts 3 and it’s DLC, I was so confused why the DLC never showed up until I realized that I had the PEGI version
@GenerationZ3137 ай бұрын
I generally don't like to have games from other regions because of this. I actually got a copy of Tears of the Kingdom from the airport in Sydney, Australia only because it was cheaper than if I bought it in Canada.
@lued1237 ай бұрын
@@GenerationZ313Tears of the Kingdom, thankfully, has the exact same cartridge for every region, so you don't need to worry about incompatible DLC there. The game just checks your console's region and defaults to whatever language corresponds to it. A lot of Switch games use the same system now, but early in the Switch's life, it wasn't as much of a standard.
@SylverstoneKhandr7 ай бұрын
The exact same thing Scott mentioned about Another Code happened to me too. Never showed up on launch day, and just was AWOL for an extended time. In that time, I ended up going to a GameStop near my job and got the last copy they had in the store. Cancelled my order and basically never bothered with Amazon again for game releases.
@fabiofabiobio7 ай бұрын
Amazon has been enshittified within an inch of its life. That said, I'll still order from them because when they do send the wrong thing, their return policy is so hassle-free that I instead get something even BETTER than a new video game - the schaedenfreudic joy of making them waste money on a free return.
@fillerbunnyninjashark2717 ай бұрын
Amazon is known for closing people's accounts if they return too much
@MorphBaller3887 ай бұрын
I get very aggravated when people complain about the prices of games and then try to prove it with showing the Amazon listing of it being sold for $300 when in reality it’s like 50 bucks on eBay
@AdventureKnockout7 ай бұрын
I ordered 3D World + Bowser’s Fury on Amazon and it came WITHOUT THE CARTRIDGE. I was so excited to open the box and then broke into laughter seeing an empty cart slot. At least they sent me another copy of the game so I have a spare Switch case for a custom print box art.
@_roko_7 ай бұрын
Had the exact same thing happen to me with a movie a few years ago. It said it was the american version on the store page and it was british, blu rays are region locked so I couldn't watch it. We requested a refund and the seller got pissed at us because we "didn't read the store page". Despite that they still refunded us because they had it written wrong and updated the page the day later
@MelloWatermello7 ай бұрын
The worst part about having a pal game is how GameStop won't take it on a Trade-in. It doesn't matter if it works, if it has an 18 instead of an M, it's a no go. They can keep their five cents anyway!
@2-Way_Intersection7 ай бұрын
I mean, i kinda get it bc they probably cant legally sell anything without an ESRB rating
@deejno.47587 ай бұрын
I only use gamestop as my free pre-owned game rental store.
@MelloWatermello7 ай бұрын
@@2-Way_Intersection At this day and age, shouldn't we have an international age rating standard?
@lucasLSD7 ай бұрын
@@MelloWatermello Regional sensibilities are too different, anything too sexual ESRB throws a fit, anything too violent CERO throws a fit
@UltimateInkling7 ай бұрын
I swear i hate that, especially when some games having dlc its not compatible cause of different region looking at u playstation.
@cloneepisodeiiiwalker39647 ай бұрын
It's such a pain to buy controllers on Amazon too. You have to scroll through page after page of 3rd-party controllers and completely irrelevant Switch accessories even if you specifically search for official controllers for a particular console.
@Uncooked_Bread6 ай бұрын
Some 3rd party controllers are good tho I bought a $20 controller that can connect to switch,mobile,and laptop
@gaminglakitu7 ай бұрын
Finally someone openly shares my sentiment that Amazon selling Pal titles is so annoying
@geminielf7 ай бұрын
Well thats because nobody is buying these trash games in europe
@abdelali92797 ай бұрын
The curious thing is that Amazon support doesn't nag you if you want a refund yet they never close those scammer sellers ok their site, it feels like Amazon want to quiet the vocal minority so the majority that doesn't know best will keep on buying terrible products from them.
@Glitchman247 ай бұрын
On the topic of bootlegs: one time I was sent a burned CDR for an album I wanted when ordering on Amazon. I've also had many items borderline destroyed due to their poor shipping. I rarely ever buy from them anymore.
@Queen_Coda7 ай бұрын
“My 3ds is region locked!” The 10 minute 3DS homebrew tutorial in the corner:
@T-Dawg757 ай бұрын
I remember the day i got Splatoon 3-it was a birthday gift, and of course I loved it. But i immediately noticed that the spine was centered-months later I noticed the pegi logo and realized what happened
@dksretrocloset7 ай бұрын
My biggest issue with Amazon when it comes to games is that 9 out of 10 of any disc based games I buy, the disc is always loose. And it’s a sealed game. It happens almost every time.
@TheM0T7 ай бұрын
I sell on Amazon, and I HATE the people who do stuff like that. I know, even as a seller, getting Amazon to actually do something is harder than pulling teeth, from a crocodile, with your bare hands, but I still usually at least try. I know you probably don't have the time, and don't want to mess with it, but if you report sellers and/or leave negative feedback (on the seller's page, not the product), it can help sometimes. Selling a game that doesn't match the region the page shows is against the TOS. In the case of the bootleg, use the word "fake" in the reason for the return. That will automatically put a black mark on their account and prevent them from ever selling through that listing again unless they prove to Amazon that their stuff is real. Granted, for every scammer or listing that gets taken down, two new listings and scammer accounts get made, but... Still. For buying, my rule of thumb is to make sure it is either sold by Amazon or at least shipped by Amazon via the "Fulfilled by Amazon" program. That may be ironic since, as a seller, I do fulfilled by merchant (myself). If you have to go with a third party doing fulfilled by merchant, make sure to look at the seller's profile for feedback first.
@moonshinejack7 ай бұрын
Always check the seller. I won’t buy things on Amazon unless the seller field says “Ships from and sold by Amazon.” If it says “Sold by ShadyMerchantX and fulfilled by Amazon,” you’re basically begging for a bootleg or other issue.
@treyvonishere43757 ай бұрын
Realest scatt moment. They sent me the German version of the Sonic movie that has completely different box art from the US version. Sure I can watch it but it sticks out like a sore thumb on the shelf.
@tomadams75537 ай бұрын
I collect blu rays, hate the massive age rating on German ones haha
@HaloTropical7 ай бұрын
@@tomadams7553 Ugh, Germans and their ages.
@treyvonishere43757 ай бұрын
@@HaloTropical real (I’m of German descent)
@alexandercorbett11477 ай бұрын
Is the movie dubbed in German or can you still watch it in English?
@treyvonishere43757 ай бұрын
@@alexandercorbett1147 just about all movies have a language setting before they start but it just bothers me that I assumed I would be getting the blu ray and instead received the German limited release with useless post cards
@code.talker7 ай бұрын
Amazon just isn't the place to buy older niche things... I recently ordered a vinyl record and it was totally warped, returned it, and got one that was even more warped. I learned my lesson there... but if you need something normal and simple amazon is great
@Sunflwrd7 ай бұрын
Working at amazon ill tell you we usually get all items and games out of these smalls cubbys they are usually unclean and dirty and have a high chance of falling and having damage there is no quality control for this stuff so usually by the time it makes it through shipping its dirty or damaged
@Roaring__Moon6 ай бұрын
I also work at amazon, I can vouch for this. I personally take precaution with games and electronics but yeah. Usually, the items can be stowed anywhere so they can be stored with other miscellaneous items like clothes or whatever. That said, the item is handled by multiple people so it increases the risk of someone being careless, unfortunately.
@lemoncat93297 ай бұрын
One thing to add about Amazon, they aim to monopolize pretty much everything. I'd rather not allow many stores to shut down and people lose their jobs which is why I don't support them. There are other online stores that can be supported.
@Thanosferatu7 ай бұрын
Amazon cancelled all the pre-orders of the upcoming Switch games, so even Nintendo considers Amazon lame.
@videogameobsession7 ай бұрын
Which ones? I still have my Metroid Prime 4 pre-order from 7 years ago on Amazon. Back when they were giving 20% off on all game preorders.
@UltimateDailga125 ай бұрын
That's a different issue has this has been happening with specifically newer releases and it's been happening with Walmart too
@PyraJord7 ай бұрын
In the UK we get the EXACT same thing. I work in a 2nd hand game store and we are not allowed to take in games that dont have UK Ratings/Classifications on them. So many customers get annoyed when they bring in US Games because they 'bought it from Amazon' and we have to keep explaining that Amazon DGAF
@etekweb7 ай бұрын
Bootleg SD cards are often just generic smaller SD cards (maybe 32GB or 64GB, for example) that are modified in software so the computer/camera/etc think they are actually 1TB. After you fill the actual capacity of the card, it is forced to overwrite random data as you try to add more. This is why it worked at first and then the files got corrupted. There are testing utilities available online to determine the actual space available on SD cards.
@gamefan067 ай бұрын
This is even worse with movies. Pal region blu-rays stick a giant age rating symbol on the front cover that take up an entire corner, and they're huge on the spines too. But half the time, it's like they're the only versions of a movie Amazon even stocks.
@willknight137 ай бұрын
Yep, as someone in the UK it’s worse. I end up with ESRB game versions but on top of that, since I’m a part of Europe sometimes I’ll just get a German copy? I bought a blu-ray of everything everywhere all at once brand new on Amazon. A German copy arrives. Not the worse thing I guess, I just have the change the language right? But no, this movie actually has text on the screen as part of the film and if you switch the language that doesn’t change, and if you turn subtitles on it doesn’t display any translations still… Amazon did refund me but never asked for it to be returned, so now I have a basically useless German copy of this movie…
@DonWeaselYeehawEdition7 ай бұрын
I personally can’t stand online shopping, mostly because once I spend money on a thing I want the thing in my hands immediately. But it still feels good to hear you and Arlo shitting on big corporations. They deserve every bit of it
@riversart20307 ай бұрын
I used to buy PS4 games from amazon and I swear; about half of the time the cases would be broken. I found out that a lot of their warehouses use robots to pick orders and that items often fall several feet into the baskets (with other items in them.) I pretty much only buy games on ebay now.
@MavHusky7 ай бұрын
Another issue with getting PAL or Japanese copies is that while they will work on NTSC region free consoles, DLC may still be locked to that region. I've heard stories of people wanting to get DLC for a PAL game on the NTSC store and it not working because the DLC on the US store is locked to the US copies only.
@theelike43027 ай бұрын
I got the italian version of Pokemon Scarlett and having Pokemon Scarlatto on my shelf makes me feel cultured.
@plushdragonteddy7 ай бұрын
oh my god that’s hilarious, i’d actually love to have that lmao
@khit0077 ай бұрын
I have pokemon Y and omega ruby on my shelf
@bebopblue7 ай бұрын
I wanted to get Ghost in the Shell on bluray and I got the 4K version. This thing looked liked it they kicked it all the way to my house, despite the shrink wrap was completely fine. The case was completely scruffed and the insert looked like it had water damage. It also looked liked someone tried to slash this long gash on the back of it, it basically looked melted into the plastic. It was missing the regular bluray and digital code, the 4K bluray had some marks on it. Did Amazon send me someone's used copy that fell behind their TV's table? I bought this new, how does this happen? Of course I sent it back, but how do they know this is what they sent me and that I'm not the one trying to screw them over with a switcheroo because I like to play with my physical media in the sand? I worry about that scenario if they ban me over their mistake, but come on, man.
@crystalqueen97117 ай бұрын
I hate being so dependent on Amazon, I live out in a small valley in the countryside so out here we really don't have many specialty shops, so whenever you want something that isn't carried by Walmart, you go to Amazon, and if Amazon fucks you, you just take it because where the fuck else are you gonna go? The closest Best Buy is over an hour's drive away
@Ivegotsomewater817 ай бұрын
If there's no IRL pictures, no buy. -Fellow eBay and Discogs buyer.
@wozthescott28047 ай бұрын
I’m allergic to Amazon
@DocProcJettster7 ай бұрын
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@FinallyAlone7 ай бұрын
The website or the forest?
@nick69907 ай бұрын
@@FinallyAlone I think both
@jamesbaxter58167 ай бұрын
@@FinallyAlone yes.
@tylerdenaro33657 ай бұрын
The Amazon Rain Forrest is the best jungle ever 🦜🐒🌲😌
@Erin13137 ай бұрын
I've actually had the opposite, I'm from Australia and ordered Powerwashing Simulator through Amazon. The image had the Pegi rating, I didn't care. When it arrived, it actually had the Australian rating on it. I was confused but pleased.
@skittezraine7 ай бұрын
This is why avoid ordering games from Amazon when possible.
@stardewnoodles7 ай бұрын
Really feels worse if you do not have Amazon prime, because you feel like a person they don’t care about and don’t think about if you don’t have prime. It forces you to want to get prime, if not free. That sucks.
@natedog7697 ай бұрын
I can't believe how Amazon has blatant false advertising. I've seen so many photoshopped ad images that they clearly keyed in the product for. And other times they pulled a fast one on me. I bought a large stuffed animal for my niece and I'm the photos it showed like a full grown adult holding a massive stuffed toy and when it arrives it was 1/3rd the size. You're suppose to read the dimensions but the whole point of a photo is suppose to visually help you see what it will look like and it's a damn shame we have to accept this multi million dollar business to get away with crap like that
@FabuBrik7 ай бұрын
People afraid of AI when Amazon's chatbot can't figure out returns.
@MarbleThumbs7 ай бұрын
I really wonder why or how this happens at all, in Europe I've never once been accidentally sent an NTSC copy by Amazon, why would they even have copies stored in my country?
@kevinrosario27297 ай бұрын
I think it depends on how well his local Amazon warehouses do their job.
@thelastofus28727 ай бұрын
@@kevinrosario2729yes but why would an American local warehouse have European versions of games? Have they stopped making them in America?
@MarbleThumbs7 ай бұрын
@@kevinrosario2729 But why are PAL copies sitting around in an American Amazon warehouse in the first place? I wonder if it's just a case of redirecting stock after analysing demand.
@eden22.77 ай бұрын
I deleted my amazon account a few months ago in part because of this. An institution gets big enough then they think they can go whatever they want
@z.d.89867 ай бұрын
I ordered a Rosalina & Luma amiibo on Amazon, it was advertised as a Rosalina & Luma amiibo from the Smash series even had that image on the website. Was about 30 bones and they gave me a Rosalina amiibo from the Super Mario series. I was considering returning it, but then Nintendo restocked Rosalina & Luma and I picked that up with a few other Smash amiibo I was missing and kept the Rosalina just on the off chance I would never had the chance for the Super Mario series one
@ill_hex81037 ай бұрын
A few takeaways everyone should know: 1. Amazon is still probably good for general products, there's a lot of good stores for specialized shopping. (I.E. Micro Center for computers, Sweetwater for music, and B&H for content creation). 2. Never trust bootlegs. 3. Always save at crucial points of and back-up your work. 4. I wouldn't trust SSD cards for long-term storage. You either buy a good External storage device or invest in a heavy-duty system involving cloud back-ups combined with NAS storage and duplicating the hdds, especially for really big projects.
@aliceinmansonland4487 ай бұрын
Well, thank you Scott! I just had to paranoid check the SD card I just got from Amazon... :Not intended for sale within the United States: It was a company trying to rip me off too! I ordered a Two Pack, and they only sent ONE!!! Got refunded half my money... But still, it's concerning that it's not even supposed to be sold here! Thanks for the heads up!!! I'll be checking closer from now on!
@Pixelith7 ай бұрын
I'm so glad to see someone with an audience call out Amazon on this. Too many times have I bought a book, vinyl, game, etc from Amazon and what I get is either mangled with no protective wrapping, the wrong region, delayed and late shipping, or a completely different item. This is even after checking the sellers (if not shipped and sold by Amazon already), seeing good reviews, and STILL getting something messed up.
@jameslawrenson12087 ай бұрын
Another Code Recollection was obtained online at Best Buy. And the heartwarming story and characters made it worth it!
@RNorthex7 ай бұрын
On a pre-order they assume you might be fine waiting and still get the sale, but if they say 'out of stock' then those are potential sales lost to it. The bottom line is to be open to as many sales as possible and focus on retention; customer be damned. The storage bootlegs fake the actual capacity on them: they will say the capacity they advertise, but once you exceed their actual capacity - which is obviously much lower - it'll start overriding itself, hence the corrupted data.
@SteelRotom7 ай бұрын
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to be upset at Amazon for these mistakes, especially since a non-insignificant amount of items that are either the incorrect region or bootleg will end up back in circulation after a few years. A decent majority of people buying these things on Amazon don’t know any better, and the next person down the line will suffer because of it.
@synthiandrakon6 ай бұрын
The thing that fucks me with Amazon, is how they make second hand sales and new sales look the same and it's only in like fine print do you find that the thing you're trying to buy isn't new from the manufacturer
@calebherring3877 ай бұрын
It's official. Scott has that dog in him.
@imBailout7 ай бұрын
Amazon is absolutely DREADFUL with preorders. Getting any game that isn’t out yet on there is basically you accepting that you won’t have it within the first week.
@AndresLionheart7 ай бұрын
Online sellers sending a different region game from the one shown in the stock picture is the reason I stopped buying new games from them. Where I am from we use a site similar to Ebay. People selling their used games always add real pictures of the game on top of the stock photo, so you are guaranteed to get the correct region. Thankfully though I found a place that actually cares about this shit and will mark anything non-american with the region in brackets at the end of the title (and uses the correct region picture). I've been buying my new games from them ever since.
@SomeHomesickAlien6 ай бұрын
The sad thing is I had 8 physical copies of 3ds games (including Kid icarus uprising) that were expensive after they went out of print, but my uncle who 100% has definitely the best intentions for me and is caring, stole it from me. I worked entire summers as a teen to get those games 😅
@Canadiansamurai7 ай бұрын
I'll never preorder from Amazon again after they canceled my preorder for the collector's edition of Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon.
@mr.jellyfish55447 ай бұрын
That’s me with Best Buy. They literally just grabbed my order that was ready for pickup and sold it to someone else and just simply canceled my order.
@Canadiansamurai7 ай бұрын
@@mr.jellyfish5544 Bro whaaaaat??? How do you know they did that?? That's so scummy of them!
@mr.jellyfish55447 ай бұрын
@@Canadiansamurai got first email confirmation with Sora amiibo purchase. Got second email confirming ready for pickup. Then as I was on my way to pick it up, I got the order cancelled email. I was already nearby so I still went asked what this was about and the one of the managers straight up said, “yeah, it seems your order was accidentally sold to someone else.” I asked “how!! it already had my name on it!!” and just shrugged. . . . Accidentally. . . I ended buying Sora in Japan the following month, which ended up being cheaper thanks to the current exchange rate. . . . I buy most of my games whenever I’m in Japan now, mainly because of the exchange rate. But when I’m in the states, I’ll take the risk with Amazon, at least going Karen mode has gotten me discounts and partial refunds with them. Or I’ll go to Target if I really have to. However, from Scott’s POV, I get it, seeing a pegi-18 logo would somehow rub me the wrong way as well.
@builder18637 ай бұрын
I bought Splatoon 2 from Amazon, and it was the PAL version. I didn't realize till I bought the Octo Expansion on the eShop and it wouldn't work with my copy. Eventually I just gave up, bought a new copy, and sold it on eBay.
@drivillain49677 ай бұрын
My wife bought me a copy of Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition for Christmas one year and got a PEGI version and it annoys me to no end that it is. I also pre-ordered Persona 5 Royal when that first came out, it got delayed until the following Tuesday for delivery. Canceled it and ordered it again and it came the Saturday before my pre order was suppose to be there.
@therealjaystone23447 ай бұрын
At least you can play it region free
@JohnSears7 ай бұрын
Yeah. I don't trust what comes off of Amazon these days, either. Thanks for putting this into words
@angelahornung84887 ай бұрын
I had this issue with Stray for Xbox Series X, but it did end up working regardless which is nice. Thank goodness for removing that region nonsense.
@piotr787 ай бұрын
Games that use dlc might still run into region issues. Beware
@thelastofus28727 ай бұрын
@@piotr78true and some save files are locked to a region too.
@ConnorsGameRoom7 ай бұрын
I know bootleg flash drives will sometimes come with hacked chips that report to the device that they are 1TB when they're actually way smaller. They'll work fine until they're *actually full and then they'll start overwriting and corrupting old data. It's concerning that there are such convincing bootleg SD cards going out on Amazon. I don't think you'd be able to tell if you weren't so used to the SanDisk cards.
@CousinNieR7 ай бұрын
I've always been sceptical of buying from Amazon. After watching this video, I'm even more sceptical of buying from Amazon.
@koopakoot95577 ай бұрын
The problem with selling the pal copies is that while yes, the game isn’t region locked, any DLC Codes are region locked. Found that out the hard way when I got FFVII Remake Intergrade for Christmas and I couldn’t use the download code for the DLC.
@8TrackTech7 ай бұрын
I have the Pal version of Yoshi's crafted world and link's awakening for the same reason. At least the switch isn't region locked.
@thatonedude76-56i5 ай бұрын
Lets also not forget that PAL versions in NA consoles cant use dlc content purchased separately on an NA console
@EspenSGX7 ай бұрын
The game rating logo being swapped PEGI is one thing, but in Europe you have the risk of getting a German USK rating logo next to it. Those are massive! Basically a quarter of the cover!
@deftoned27 ай бұрын
Cancelled my Prime account about a year ago. One of the best decisions I ever made.
@FilFee7 ай бұрын
Just buy your SD card in a specialist store, like B&H.
@Santoryu907 ай бұрын
In terms of games, that hasn’t happened to me, but there were two occasions when I was sent the wrong item and another thing I might’ve bought if I hadn’t looked at the reviews revealing it basically was false advertising.
@claptrap40847 ай бұрын
"Apparently you can't trust bootlegs........WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!" -Scott...2024
@CarbonKnights7 ай бұрын
I remember ordering a game from Amazon once and they sent me the Spanish version, which is fine, the game itself is in English, but I sent them a photo of the game and told them I couldn't play it because I didn't speak Spanish, and they gave me my money back... And didn't ask for the game back, so I just got it for free, which wasn't my intent, but was pretty awesome.
@brawnyflame88587 ай бұрын
I had the same problem with amazon. I bought 3 games and they sent me the PAL version. At the first moment i didn’t bother me because the PlayStation 5 is region free but then i had two problems: The first one was that i was playing dmc 5 with the PlayStation plus extra, so the remove it from the system and decided to get a physical copy the thing is that ntsc save files are different than pal save files so i didn’t had save data. And the second problem was that i get two ps4 versions so i could update to the ps5 version for free but apparently the pal version doesn’t let get the free update, so i need to create a pal psn account. I don’t why this is happening rigth now i been purchasing almost all my games with amazon since 6 years ago, and never had Any problem with it. Oh and by the way getting a console from amazon is worse
@sonicfan207 ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm so glad to hear its not just me who keeps getting the PAL versions of games instead of the NA version. Most of the time I can't even find a NA version of a game I'm looking for since the picture keeps showing me the PAL version, so I've been having to shop for games elsewhere.
@saladplainzone7 ай бұрын
I've had the same issue with not getting games for days, happened to me with Mario Wonder. Never again lol
@Num1MarioFan7 ай бұрын
2:09 just the Europe versions, cos I don't see a single Australian Classification there which means that they're giving you just the Europe PAL games, not the Australian PAL games.
@Nerdtendo63667 ай бұрын
Next Scott the Woz episode, he better have that damn shirt on
@jebreski7 ай бұрын
Moral of the story: cancel your Prime membership and shop elsewhere