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You have points with the others, but why would you not trust a phone bought on Amazon? People are constantly buying phones from them. I've never heard any major "don't buy a phone from Amazon" warning before.
I haven’t searched about commingling in years now, but when I did, they had stopped doing it years before. Did they restart? Seems like an old wives tale at this point.
In general, phones are tamper-sealed to ensure you're buying a new phone. So this really doesn't make sense to me.
"New" was never mentioned.
True, but you don't go to Best Buy to buy a used phone since they don't sell used phones, so I think that talking about buying a new phone on Amazon vs. a new phone at Best Buy is the fair comparison here.
The condition of the phone was mentioned, so yes. That's... kinda the whole and only point here.
Cool.
Amazon silently resells used and returned products that are sometimes resold without any inspection. If you're buying something expensive it's better to go to the original manufacturer.
I have never bought a phone from them, but every time I have had an issue with a product I have bought from Amazon, I either can return it for a refund or they refund me and I don't even have to return it.
I mean fuck Amazon for any number of reasons, but this is just not an issue I have heard about a lot of people having with phones bought from Amazon.
Would you automatically trust an SD card from Amazon?
I trust it as long as it's a Samsung and their verification app passes. They have a Windows app that checks an SD card and authenticates that it's a legit Samsung one.
I don't even know what that means. If it was in its original packaging? Sure. Why wouldn't I? Are they secretly repackaging virus-filled SD cards in like-new sealed plastic clamshells?
Because the packaging and design on the card aren't that hard to fake convincingly and amazon doesn't care where the stock comes from it all goes in the bin so to speak. So if some really good fakes get in the shuffle you could get unlucky.
Either virus-filled cards or cards that are tampered with to show up as 2GB but are actually only 100MB or whatever. I got burned twice by that from purchases on ebay.
I mean, I've been boycotting Amazon since 1999, so it isn't like I'm buying anything from them. But I really wouldn't trust any complicated/expensive electronic component from them outside of the Kindle, since that is their own product. It is too easy for Chinese companies to dupe these days.