It's still possible to get good stuff from Amazon, but with third-party sellers there is a lot of crap on there. I got completely scammed once (a third-party seller put up a product I wanted, I and others bought it, no product ever shipped) - fortunately Amazon shut down the site and refunded everyone, but you'd think the biggest corporation on earth could figure out how to gatekeep vendors so stuff like that doesn't happen to begin with. Don't buy anything that isn't rated, and even if something *is* highly rated, that doesn't always mean anything. What a mess.

It's not even just third-party sellers, though Amazon definitely should screen those a lot better than they're doing. Even people ordering from Amazon itself have received fake crap or illegal copies of books. Possibly because it was in Amazon's warehouse and they blindly assumed it was the same as the real thing and therefore shipped it as one of their own.

Amazon's inability to prevent itself from selling counterfeit goods should have been its downfall. I mean, isn't that a crime? How does this not hurt Amazon? It's equally hard to believe that Amazon would have no control over what's in their warehouses. They're just intentionally sloppy in order to cut costs. This should have consequences. It would have consequences for anyone else.