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> is this... just racism, actually?

Amazon doesn't show you the race of the product owner (and typing this I realise how fucking stupid that sounds)

However Amazon also doesn't care about what shit it sells you, so its perfectly possible to be scammed by some shady org out for a quick buck.

Even if you spend the time to research the right brand, Amazon doesn't actually guarantee that it'll sell you that brand, through a lot of weird bate and switch and "other sellers also offer", and just plain deceit, its not that hard to end up with expensive shite.

I have a bunch of n100s for both home and work. currently we have a 1/4 failure rate (combo and beelink and trigkey green, and others)

I still have all my Pis working, apart from the ones that got wet. (however, thats SD card dependent. Thats at least cheaper.)

> the attitude that stuff from brands you don't recognize from Shenzhen

Its not Shenzhen thats the problem, its Amazon/marketplace trying to make a fast one palming off shite as gold.



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