Man, Amazon STINKS. Edited by Sam Essig and Scott Wozniak Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz Twitter: / scottthewoz Facebook: / scottthewoz Instagram: / scottthewoz
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.
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?"
@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. 😁😁😁
@@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
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
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
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)
@@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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
@@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.
@@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.
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
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
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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
@@_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
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.
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
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.
@@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.
@@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?
@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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Ordering from an e-"game store" on Amazon: smashed up, loose, dirty boxes that aren't even your region Ordering from random seller on eBay: plastic wrap still pristine, game is in a protective sleeve and completely encased in 3 inches of bubble wrap
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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
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
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
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
My parents--I mean the Easter Bunny got me Nier:Replicant and Hollow Knight this year and both were somehow the European ones. I also have Hollow Knight at the end of my Switch games.
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.
I’m lucky to have only ordered 1 game from Amazon (Mario Wonder) and it was correct. But seeing this and reading the testimonies is making me think buying games from them isn’t a good idea.
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.
this is interesting to hear as an outsider who mainly uses amazon to buy books and physical music. i wasn't aware of the problems that could arise with other products like these lol
Like the SD card bootlegs even with books and physical music there is still bootleg scam frauds happening its just customers care less if its just a bootleg seller that made an exact copy of the book or music disc rather then the original. This bootleg book problem still hurts the original authors though.
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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.
Yup my FFVII Rebirth Deluxe Edition arrived with a cracked CD Case for the soundtrack inside
The amazon wagie packing out ur stuff doesn't care, they gotta make rate.
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?"
@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. 😁😁😁
@@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
I won’t buy any games on eBay unless I see an actual picture of the game I’m purchasing. lol
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
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
I'm that way about anything from eBay. If it's a stock image of the thing I want, I'm not buying it.
I buy sealed games on eBay as long as the user rating is no less than a 99.5%.
@@leighdappa Amateur hour. I bought it for 1 cent and sold it for 1,000 USD. #ActualNerdDorkGeek
Amazon is slowly become Aliexpress, but with Aliexpress you know is gonna be a bootleg.
And cost alot less
Half the stuff on there is already resold from Aliexpress with 400% markup.
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)
@@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
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
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.
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.
Is there any software you're aware of to test for this?
He fell for the fake flash storage scam that Atomic Shrimp warned us about.
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
Erm no, Amazon should be aware of this and do something about it, not Scott.
Amazon has become a dumpster fire. It's why I still shop at stores.
You also don't have to pay extra for shipping. I usually go to physical stores.
And you help your local economy.
I’m the UK they are closing down physical stores
@@12thMandalorianprobably because they went bankrupt from not making enough physical sales. Too late for some of these stores
But all the good stores are hours away and are usually just as much a shot in the dark as online
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.
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.
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.
That annoys the piss out of me. How would you know I didn't want to keep the box you just ruined?!
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.
Getting it from Gamestop is spotty too, even new
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.
On the other hand, Amazon is really often putting the mailing sticker directly on the product and sending it without a box now
My local equivalent to Gamestop had the gall to activate DLC codes for physical games
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.
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
@@BackdoorBarnyardThat's only if you opt in to that at checkout
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
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.
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
@@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.
@@Marc_AraujoI agree
@@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.
@@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
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
Everyone remembers their first
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
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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
Amazon has quit giving a **** about the user experience or product quality.
Their layout is a nightmare, a cluster of ui vomit
@@_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
Glad to see Scott supporting the Costco hot dog cause!
I prefer the chicken bake myself
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.
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
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.
@@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.
@@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?
@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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
Amazon priorities speed over quality packing, people genuinely just toss packages around even if they clearly say fragile and it's encouraged
People should wonder why they're called consumers
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.
Amazon is known for closing people's accounts if they return too much
I’m allergic to Amazon
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The website or the forest?
@@Sgt-Wolf I think both
@@Sgt-Wolf yes.
The Amazon Rain Forrest is the best jungle ever 🦜🐒🌲😌
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.
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.
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!
I mean, i kinda get it bc they probably cant legally sell anything without an ESRB rating
I only use gamestop as my free pre-owned game rental store.
@@2-Way_Intersection At this day and age, shouldn't we have an international age rating standard?
@@MelloWatermello Regional sensibilities are too different, anything too sexual ESRB throws a fit, anything too violent CERO throws a fit
I swear i hate that, especially when some games having dlc its not compatible cause of different region looking at u playstation.
Amazon cancelled all the pre-orders of the upcoming Switch games, so even Nintendo considers Amazon lame.
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.
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.
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.
Probably bc of return scams
Finally someone openly shares my sentiment that Amazon selling Pal titles is so annoying
Well thats because nobody is buying these trash games in europe
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
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.
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.
If there's no IRL pictures, no buy.
-Fellow eBay and Discogs buyer.
Ordering from an e-"game store" on Amazon: smashed up, loose, dirty boxes that aren't even your region
Ordering from random seller on eBay: plastic wrap still pristine, game is in a protective sleeve and completely encased in 3 inches of bubble wrap
Lol what world do you live in ebay is not that nice bro if anything its just as bad 😂
@@coolguychapman6685 thats just my experience bro, i obviously dont speak for everybody. call it luck if youd like
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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
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
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
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.
I collect blu rays, hate the massive age rating on German ones haha
@@tomadams7553 Ugh, Germans and their ages.
@@HaloTropical real (I’m of German descent)
Is the movie dubbed in German or can you still watch it in English?
@@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
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.
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.
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.
Cancelled my Prime account about a year ago. One of the best decisions I ever made.
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.
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.
I got the italian version of Pokemon Scarlett and having Pokemon Scarlatto on my shelf makes me feel cultured.
oh my god that’s hilarious, i’d actually love to have that lmao
I have pokemon Y and omega ruby on my shelf
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…
People afraid of AI when Amazon's chatbot can't figure out returns.
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
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.
I'll never preorder from Amazon again after they canceled my preorder for the collector's edition of Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon.
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.
@@mr.jellyfish5544 Bro whaaaaat??? How do you know they did that?? That's so scummy of them!
@@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.
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
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.
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.
This is why avoid ordering games from Amazon when possible.
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
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
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
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.
It's official. Scott has that dog in him.
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.
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.
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.
Games that use dlc might still run into region issues. Beware
@@piotr78true and some save files are locked to a region too.
"Apparently you can't trust bootlegs........WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!"
-Scott...2024
Just buy your SD card in a specialist store, like B&H.
Moral of the story: cancel your Prime membership and shop elsewhere
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
I've always been sceptical of buying from Amazon. After watching this video, I'm even more sceptical of buying from Amazon.
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.
Yeah. I don't trust what comes off of Amazon these days, either.
Thanks for putting this into words
They sent me the Japanese version of Pokémon snap twice in a row 😂
Don’t let Jeff bezoz cook
Jeff Bezozniak
It's funny because that shirt at the end is a bootleg of a shirt by methsyndicate lmao
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.
Next Scott the Woz episode, he better have that damn shirt on
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!
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!
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.
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.
At least you can play it region free
I have delivered freight to Amazon warehouses. Those fuckers toss shit like it don’t mean nothing
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.
Get in, losers… we’re going Wozzing!
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?
I think it depends on how well his local Amazon warehouses do their job.
@@kevinrosario2729yes but why would an American local warehouse have European versions of games? Have they stopped making them in America?
@@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.
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.
“My 3ds is region locked!”
The 10 minute 3DS homebrew tutorial in the corner:
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
Scott be nice. Jeffy has to bear through the stench of all his employees' piss bottles in order to get you your pal copy of pikmin 3
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.
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.
My parents--I mean the Easter Bunny got me Nier:Replicant and Hollow Knight this year and both were somehow the European ones.
I also have Hollow Knight at the end of my Switch games.
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.
When I got sonic frontier from Amazon I went outside to get the package and stepped on the package. Broke my heart.
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.
Scott opening with Kid Icarus Uprising on screen was a jumpscare to my kid Icarus fanboy ass
I’m lucky to have only ordered 1 game from Amazon (Mario Wonder) and it was correct. But seeing this and reading the testimonies is making me think buying games from them isn’t a good idea.
So glad you made this video on this topic
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.
this is interesting to hear as an outsider who mainly uses amazon to buy books and physical music. i wasn't aware of the problems that could arise with other products like these lol
Like the SD card bootlegs even with books and physical music there is still bootleg scam frauds happening its just customers care less if its just a bootleg seller that made an exact copy of the book or music disc rather then the original. This bootleg book problem still hurts the original authors though.