Amazon being held accountable for things that could kill people is different to UA-cam being held accountable. All we want is that these platforms take down things that could cause harm when they're pointed out.
This is the way! BTW this dude was here before I had 100 subscribers. I remember seeing Mr. Fire's posts over 11 years ago. Thank you for sticking around!
There are politicians and individuals in power who believe words and ideas are just as, if not more dangerous than dangerous, life threatening goods. 0.2% for the latter, 10% for the former with new online safety laws. The danger is, right to repair will be in their sights too.
Isn’t it strange how a UA-camr can be held accountable for random people’s comments on their videos but Amazon has no liability in fraudulent advertising and fake reviews about legitimate hazards?
They managed to engineer themselves through the knothole of deniability while pretending they had no liability... I'm sure their complaint inbox is sent straight to trash.
The problem is that people want everyone else to be responsible for their actions. We should let the market dictate it. Not like pu*** bitches who want to blame everyone. Just like where restaurants are blamed for over serving
saw another youtuber point out that not only do they allow you to buy fake reviews, they'll also delete reviews that call that out because "the review isn't related to the product, because it's directed at the seller" They're 100% complicit
There was a terrible product I reviewed once and the brand tried to bribe me to remove it because it was voted as a helpful review. They tried to offer me gift cards in ever increasing value every time I said no, until they tried guilt tripping me by saying the company needs money to support someone with cancer or some nonsense like that. I never removed the review, so they removed the product listing and relisted it on Amazon so it could start fresh with only positive reviews.
I got banned from leaving Amazon reviews many years ago. Funny thing is, all my reviews were 5 stars. I reviewed a music CD and maybe one or two electronic items, all positively, no assholery involved. To this day I have no idea why I was banned. I wasn't notified either, I found out when I tried to leave another review one day and it wasn't being allowed to go through. I asked support and they never even replied.
Louis talks fast because he is passionate about these subjects. He loves his job and it shows. I've never minded his fast pace. Don't hold back, Louis. Hugs for Mr. Clinton.
Completely agree. Louis - don't change your style. There will always be people who dislike someone's approach or style, no matter what it is. It's comfortable for you and it's working for the vast majority of your subscribers. Also - vastly respect your integrity and desire to hold companies and people to account.
I lost my cat Dobby 2 years ago and due to circumstances i am not able to have cats anymore, when you blasted Clinton's purring through the speakers to me i could feel my heartbeat slow down. That was one of the most zen and calm moments i have felt since i lost Dobby, thank you.
I'm so sorry to hear about your little four-legged buddy. I hope Dobby is feasting and purring in Odin's Hall. Ash, my Siamese of 18 years, went there in 2019 and chews the buttons on Odin's cargo shorts. :)
I'm sorry. Losing a cat is the hardest. Losing any animal is hard but cats just feel different somehow, like a deeper connection but maybe it's just me. Maybe if you have any friends with cats they'll let you come over and spend some time with their cat to help heal and receive the calming benefits of their purrs and companionship.
If I can get it from a physical store, I will. I needed replacement earpads for my Meze headphones because the original ones were wearing out after three years of heavy use. I knew there was an audio store next to the local Domino's. I walked in and came out two minutes later with a fresh set of genuine Meze earpads.
Drives me insane people go on endlessly about "yeah but just return it you get a replacement" and all that. It's not a convenience when you have to do extra work because they screwed up...
The Fullfilled by Amazon program, means that Amazon handles the distribution, and the seller is just a supplier. They absolutely are the distributor in that case. They run the everything except product procurment. They warehouse it, they ship it, they advertise it, and they sell it.
@XtremGaia your argument would make sense if amazon still utilized UPS and FedEx and didn't warehouse the products they sell and hire their own employees to deliver shit. They are a distributor because they do everything a distributor does.
Amazon likes to think of themselves as Internet Explorer; “we just host a bunch of web-stores, we don’t sell the stuff ourselves.” But they’re more like Walmart. Sure, I know I’m buying a mountain bike made by Huffy, but I bought it from Walmart. I paid Walmart. The charge to my credit card was from Walmart.”
If I pay money to Amazon, the merchandise ships from an Amazon warehouse, and it arrives in an Amazon box…then I bought it from Amazon and they’re responsible.
@@The93Vector exactly, if I buy an Apple from Walmart and it is poisioned then they can't just put the blame on some random farmer. Sellers have to ensure that they don't kill their customers, it is different with youtube since they aren't selling comments but UA-cam does have a responsibility that no one is posting some nuclear warhead construction videos. Content creators are basically employed by UA-cam and if an employee f up then the employer has to take measures against them
yeah, except that's bullshit, and doesn't pass a basic sniff test. it would be like "butbut officer I'm not a drug dealer. I simply run a transportation service that moves the drugs from my pocket to their pocket!" tell it to da judge
also, they don't make very clear on UI when you are buying from "Amazon Basics", or an independent store. I bet lots of people don't notice the difference. That's bad.
Consumer is such a Commie term anyway to justfy Capitalism = bad and pointless. They won't be happy til everyone is wiping their asses with their hands and washing their clothes with dead people runoff...
I have said it for years. The fines should start at all profits made using that illegal activity. Then added on top of that. They will never stop doing the immoral and scam schemes if they are making money doing it.
Profit is what's leftover after all expenses. If that becomes law then there will be alot of new "non-profit" companies. Hartford healthcare is "non-profit"
I have never understood why it doesn't. For you and me it would. If you and I went to the store and stole something we'd have to return the thing we stole and then pay a fine and do jail time. When corporations steal from us all they have to do is pay a fine which is often smaller than what they stole in the first place. That's just the price of doing business. I'm sick and tired of these people stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and getting a $10 million fine. If I could get away with that I would!
@@cirelestenYou're right they shouldn't have to return their profit they should have to return literally what they took. Even if that means they go bankrupt. Corporations should not be allowed to keep their stolen goods. Because remember just like you and me corporations are people my friend.
As a gen xer and a construction worker i have seen everything from tools to trucks go to shit over the decades. There was a time when companies prided themselves on making the BEST products and standing behind it with pride, it really wasn't that long ago. Blows my mind to know that products are designed for the dumpster.
Then their product became a saturated market, no one left willing to buy it, and the company loses business and goes under. But if we lower the cost of production, not only will profits increase, the lifespan of the product will decrease, giving consumers incentive to buy again.
@@joebloe9901 seeing you work in construction what about these so called “trucks” with plastic bumpers? I couldn’t drive to one job site with these trucks scratching all the paint off that vinyl or plastic crap.
You're right and for this reason it's not wrong to design products with an intended lifetime rather than something that 'lasts forever'. But having products with a shorter intended lifetime isn't an excuse to make cheap and unsafe junk. Customers still recognize a quality product and still recognize when a brand has put a huge amount of effort in design.
If the FTC finds Amazon liable, that opens the way for lawsuits, which will hopefully cost Amazon a lot more than zero dollars. The fact that they are a platform means they have to show "due diligence" in "moderating" their content. Apparently the FTC found they are severely lacking in that department, which makes their defense of "we are a platform" no longer valid.
@@hochhaul Do note that 230 is mostly about editing the content to substitutive change it's meaning or add or subtract meaning from a piece of content. Merely disallowing certain content is mostly irrelevant to 230.
I ran into this recently. I tried leaving a one star review on a product that was messed up and turned out to be junk, and despite not being nasty about it and listing factual reasons why it was bad, Amazon refused to accept the review. I even tried cleaning it up and being nicer, but they still refused. Apparently their "guidelines" don't accept one star reviews most times.
I purchased an item and was sent a completely empty package. The package was well put together, with no holes or tears, nothing like that. It was simply empty. They did refund me but removed my 1 star review, claiming it was related to shipping and not the actual product itself. Such a joke.
I recently wanted to buy a new printer, an Epson Eco tank model, but Amazon sent me a return, already filled with ink... As anyone with some braincells could imagine, all the ink did end up in the bag containing the printer, which was nicely drenched in cyan ink. I sent it back where it came from and wrote 2 reviews, both one star and only the one where I didn't write about insufficient and damaged packaging, the missing Ink bottles and about Amazon sending out returns without mentioning it on the product page got accepted in the end. I repaired and cleaned up our old Epson and it prints perfectly now. What a waste of resources.
No, that ending is exactly why Amazon needs to pay for protecting bad products. A thing of dental wipes marketed as being for dogs and cats killed my cousin’s cat several months ago, and Amazon won’t let you use words like kill or died in the reviews. The product is still there, still listed as being for cats as well, with 8k supposedly being ordered in the past month. The average cat owner most likely isn’t aware that citrus is highly poisonous to cats. That includes every part of a grapefruit, including the grapefruit seed extract they’ve got right there in the ingredient list. I believe Vayda was 12. She didn’t make it 24 hours after the dental wipes were used for all of six seconds. She didn’t deserve to suffer the way she did. No one who loves their cat deserves to experience buying a product to better their life only to see if horrifically kill them. It should not still be available and still be marketed for cats. Everything about the situation is wrong. So fuck Amazon. I wish they’d be fined into the ground for every dangerous product. But nah. Pets are possessions, not family members under law.
As an electrician I always tell my clients never to buy fixtures from Amazon and I will not install them. The website advertises it as an approved product in canada, but they never have the proper approvals supplied. I have even had interior designers supply these trash fixtures, only to be embarrassed when the electricians won't install it.
You mean the paperwork that shows it was approved by Inspector #2, even though the numbers are way outside of even their "approved" tolerance, isn't good enough?
I was permanently banned from leaving reviews on Amazon for calling out a garbage product that put a card in the box saying they would send a gift card worth more than the item if I left a 5 star review. I’ve tried appealing it but they completely ignore the inbox appeals go to. When I tell this to their customer support they just tell me to try again until I get a response 😐
5:02 Amazon isn’t like eBay, which just provides a platform for selling items. “Fulfilled by Amazon” means Amazon is _warehousing_ and _distributing_ products sourced by third-party sellers.
That's just providing a logistics service to the seller though. I think the better argument is that they partially obscure the seller and do not make it obvious that you're not buying from Amazon. Compare this with eBay who make it very obvious who the seller is, and that the seller isn't Amazon. My dad wasn't even aware Amazon did this as he doesn't buy from them often so ordered a tablet from Amazon fully in the belief that he was buying from Amazon not realizing it was a third party seller.
Of course, eBay hasn't scared the American merchants away, like Amazon has. There's a reason that "Jassy's yellow arrow" is full of Chinese trash now...
@@Code7Unltdexactly and I think that's because the seller is more obvious on eBay and people understand that it's not eBay selling the product. That makes people more closely scrutinize the seller. Amazon does the reverse and puts the product first, downplaying the seller as if the sellers are interchangeable. I think by doing this, with the way Amazon presents the information Amazon is effectively endorsing the sellers (even if they try to claim that they do not). Amazon's brand is first and foremost, followed by the product while the seller is hidden away.
I don't really see why ebay shouldn't also be held accountable for the things people sell there. They are running a business and generating profit. Why shouldn't they need to use some of that profit to make sure nothing untowards happens on their platform
I don't really see why ebay shouldn't also be held accountable for the things people sell there. They are running a business and generating profit. Why shouldn't they need to use some of that profit to make sure nothing untowards happens on their platform
That last few minutes with the cat was pure heaven, thank you for keeping the camera rolling while you were playing with Clinton, I have an orange cat about his age and the few moments I get to play with my own cat through out the day absolutely cures my soul and its nice seeing something else experiencing that.
Considering the number of times they've been reported for selling dangerous radioactive quack health products alone and continued to sell them, this is way overdue.
@tutacat maybe temporarily. But multiple people have done videos on basically a yearly basis. I've purchased radioactive necklaces from them within the last few months.
It has since been removed but Amazon had a 1 star parallel surge protector with many photos of the thing burned out and comments with links to how it was lo longer UL listed since 2016. I reported the item but it had been for sale for YEARS.
"Fulfilled by Amazon." Ok so who else ships SOOLOL brand overseas knock-offs across the entire country? "Nobody, they're only offered on Amazon." ... and you're not their 'distributor'? "Absolutely not."
@@butwhytharum They actually have three types of facilities in their fulfillment network, fulfillment centers, sort centers, and delivery stations, conveniently avoiding the word distribute. Fulfillment centers are where the garbage is warehoused and packaged, sort centers are where the garbage is sorted by address, and delivery stations are the stop before your front door. I guess they have a different definition of the word "distribute".
Charge per affected person, based on how significant the offence is. That way the punishment fits the offence, and companies that violate laws against tens of millions of customers get significant fines, without simply having agencies or courts guess at what is reasonable for something like this. And make them calculate the total amount of money they made off of something like illegally selling data, and add triple that amount on top of the fine for the violation itself.
NGL, during first half of the video I thought the thumbnail was just there to clickbait, but second half didn't disappoint. Not only did we get Clinton during the rant but an additional 6min kitty ASMR session with lots of petting. Truely deserved 11/10, would recommend.
It’s about time Amazon is held accountable for allowing dangerous and scam products on their platform. I hope this accountability extends to fake storage devices like counterfeit SD cards and SSDs, as well as other fraudulent items. Consumers deserve better protection and transparency.
Fines should be “40-50% of their annual income for the year prior as reported in annual reports”. Make it very clear that messing up is not worth it to companies.
Companies shouldn't be treated as artificial people , somebody in amazon willfully authorized to sell dangerous products because they know they are free from consequences and penalties from doing the crime is much less than profit from doing crime. want to scam people just open a company and be too big to face consequences.
@@thomas.thomasLimitied liability corporations made perfect sense when it was a frontier world and you had nations that wanted to fibd ways to get their elites to take chances to develop things quickly. We are no longer a frontier world but we have yet to claw back the protections that incentivized risk-taking and rapid growth. Instead, we have built our entire financial system around it, with losses borne by the public, and profits privatized. We need the corporate veil to be pierced more easily to punish bad actors, and we need leadership positions to have the onus to prove they have disincentivized illegal behaviours by their underlings that stand to benefit the company, not mere plausible deniability created by a published ethics manual that sits in a dusty corner. Then again, we also need proactive enforcement by regulators, not merely complaints-based systems with processes so laborious that no common person will have the time or energy to engage with them, let alone finish them.
Speak how you want to speak. UA-cam has a speed option if people want to use it and I for one have gotten used to your hyperactive presentations. They're amusing, informative and I look forward to every single one of them!
Amazon is like a supermarket. If you would hold Macy's or any other chain accountable for this kind of stuff, Amazon should be held accountable for the same stuff
Thanks Clinton for your tireless work supporting right to repair and consumer rights! I’m serious. Purrs make the human able to de-stress and keep up the good fight!
If its "fulfilled by Amazon" they absolutely should be more accountable. That distinction implies to the customer that its more trustworthy than products shipped directly from the seller.
Had this happen so many times I just stopped using them. If the product doesn't have their own website with their own method of delivery I pretty much don't need it.
@@Spolt_main I agree, would rather use fleabay. I know they are bad but at least they have some type of seller feedback. Many sellers use both marketplaces, or their own private site but you have to be careful for malicious clone sites.
Let's be clear that the "they" at fault is Amazon for paying their delivery folks so little and giving them such brutal quotas that the human beings responsible for ensuring that A gets to B have neither the time nor the incentive to ensure that your stuff gets to the right house. And this includes your US Postal Worker whose load has been tripled while his coworkers have been fired, all so Louie DeJoy can win some points with his future employers.
I canceled on the 28th and am never going back. They force vendors into anti-competitive pricing. They hide stuff from you so you're forced to buy the brands they get the biggest commission. Too many products were not what was described or were cheap Chinese junk. For example, I bought a 6' 'come-along' to tighten a fence. It wasn't six feet. Wasn't close. I bought a set of hole-saws and one hole in a 3/8" piece of plywood dulled the cheap steel so fast I could barely finish the one hole, never mind the six I needed. Other products were fakes or were deceptively marketed. The final straw was their streaming. They put most of their good streaming behind paywalls or I rent to them while they butchered Tolkien and other IPs that were, at one time, great. Plus $3.00 to not have commercials. Forget it...
The paying for not being harassed by ten minutes of commercials for Amazon Prime (the service I subscribed to) was the last straw. I have never been fond of Amazon but rather than just hike the price if they were struggling, they instead had to create ads for me to pay to get rid off. There wasn't anything non-Amazon being advertised so it raised the question what the fk are they advertising? They're not they are just extorting people. A company with 360 performance reviews that encouraged them to throw their coworkers under the bus Darwinistically selects for sociopaths - and that is what Amazon appears to be run by now.
Yeah, I'm decided to cancel my prime and essentially start ordering directly from sellers or buying local. Too much questionable junk and I don't have time to figure out if a product is legit nor not.
@@thomas.thomas The hottest trend in paid streaming TV now is advertising. Netflix started it with their cheaper ad-supported plan. Of course, now Netflix is trying to break into mobile gaming because of Fortnite.
The problem about fines is that they go to the company, not the executives. As it stands, if a company catches a fine, they lay off workers and cut benefits, instead of touching dividends or the boni of managers.
I worked as a contractor on-site for a major government agency. They gave me a me.[agency].gov email address and I got newsletters from the agency reporting on the many fraud cases they cracked. There was a pattern: Non-corporate companies with real human owners got major jail time, while corporations with deep pockets doing the same thing only much worse just got fined.
I found your channel about five years ago and I've gotten to watch your fur family grow in that time. Mr Clinton is such a beautiful cat and he is clearly loved well. On top of that, he's got a wonderful purr. I hope Oreo and Blackberry are also well. Cheers.
Limited liability protections and fines that are pennies on the dollar need to stop. I'm just so dang tired of these companies getting slapped on the wrist for something that would send a regular citizen to jail. Just try selling faulty products and ignoring reports as an individual, see where those fraud and reckless endangerment charges get you.
Now that's quality content. 10/10 I love how Louis after spending so much time with tech still remembers the most important things in life. True, focused person with a perfect set of priorities.
To be fair, bad clothing can contain harmful chemicals, wasn't it a certain Chinese junk site starting with a T that sold childrens clothing containing mercury or something insane?
Over the last several years, Costco has twice notified me of recalled products and gave me refunds and asked to return the products to the store (optional).
My flatmate bought a 200$ product from Amazon. We had mentioned to deliver it after 5 PM. They delivered it at 11 AM when no one was home. Got stolen. Amazon told us to go to the cops and refused to refund. Building manager says we need police complaint to review CCTV footage. My flatmate writes it down as a loss because he doesn't want to deal with the cops mess. All the while Amazon even refused to give a Proof of Delivery and says you can reach out the Delivery company by yourself if you need. What a mess!
Always found it weird that companies can get away with the worst crap possible, even with deaths as a result, but as soon as a person goes out for a peacefull protest they get arrested on the smallest excuse they can find.
i for one appreciate youtubers that talk faster. i watch pretty much all content at 1.5x (except music of course), and i don't feel like i need to slow you down in any of your videos. to me, it's just being more efficient with time, and getting the information in faster. it's the clarity with which you speak that matters more than anything, and you speak very clearly.
One of the recent scooby doo movies have great satire against this. They catch a guy doing white collar crimes, tax evasion and such. And Fred sighs and goes "Take him away." and the officer goes "Uh... we don't arrest people for those crimes. Now: Do you promise to pay back what you owe?" and the guy just goes "... Yes?" and gets a "Alright then! That's that!" and everyone leaves.
Oh that actually reminds me why I stopped bothering to leave reviews on Amazon. I bought a dryer thermostat, along with a multimeter that happened to include a temperature probe. So I decided to test what temperature it would trip at, and it turned it to be a lot higher than it was supposed to be. I posted a detailed review about this, including exactly how I'd tested it and how I ruled out it being the temperature probe that was wrong. And Amazon themselves rejected the review, stating some general guidelines which I couldn't see how I could possibly have stuck to any more closely. And with no way to find out why *exactly* they'd rejected it. So I gave up. And yet they still keep pestering me to leave reviews all the time, and leave up other reviews which clearly completely break their rules. It makes no sense.
I'm 1:45 into this video, I work in the electrical wholesale market, and my 13 years experience says that Amazon should not selling any electrical or safety equipment period. Consumers should be purchasing this type of product at licensed wholesalers.
Same thing with Carabiners for mountain climbing, there are products on there that blatantly lie about what it's rated for. Or show pictures of them being used for climbing but have fine print saying it's for attaching waterbottles or keys or whatever. I know most people understand and will purchase from recognized brands but if you're entirely new to the sport you can be fooled.
I try very hard to buy from companies I know. My beef is with companies that will not sell direct to me or have a convenient reseller. I agree with you because work equipment like testers and power tools being safe can be a life or death matter
Even though this seems like a good idea, you will get the same issue you have at car dealers a $2 hose, will cost you $80 at the dealer. There are plenty of legit and safe products, the end user needs to do their research, and the company that allows dangerous items to be sold, need to be held accountable.
If the FTC were to issue a significant fine, the company would call up their senator and remind him of how much money they gave his PAC last year. Then he calls the head of the FTC --- an appointed position --- and tells him to back off or seek employment elsewhere.
Just ran into you at Modern Market like an hour ago. I was gonna tell you how much I appreciate your content, but didn't want to interrupt your phone call. Good stuff as always Louis!
They will never ever bill a big company any real money. If they did, that company would die. Every investor would try and get out, and lots and lots of people would loss jobs and mainly the government would loss a ton of tax. So they just wont do a fecking thing that makes any real difference for the real people. Thanks for the videos. Lovely cat. Cheers
Us politician have millions and millions invested In Amazon, Google, Nvidia etc... they won't pass any laws or press charges against those company because it's not in their interest to see the stock price tank... Put your mouth where your money is!
If you look at Amazon reviews as many sellers that have very high reviews but if you look at the one-star reviews you see that they drew a line through it saying that the product was shipped by Amazon which is an absolute lie and they take the review off of their negatives. It says something about fulfillment is the responsibility of Amazon. But the product was shipped by the seller directly. Amazon's been lying for a long time.
Mr. Clinton, you're such a cool cat! With all seriousness, your way of putting words together works for me with your «normal speed». But I'm glad YT allows slowing it down for those who are less comfortable with your pace.
A shockingly small amount of Clinton. The topic is always worth it. Clinton cam feed would be good. But finding a collar mount camera is tough due to loads of software locking and anti-consumer support
I'm a new viewer. I find all of your videos informative, insightful, truthful, and genuinely funny. You fold in ethics, philosophy and humanity into the the topics explored. I wouldn't dare suggest you change a thing. You provide a unique view in a concise manor. If other people need watch it on half-speed to comprehend what you're saying, that option is there for them. Personally, I'm a speed-reader, so I'm able to digest your information at your normal speed. Thank you for your hard work.
Me: "Is Louis looking at one of his cats? I wonder which one is it." Cat: "̴̝̱̒M̷̫̺̻̃͆́Ā̴̝̼̻̋͝Ơ̷̩̪͘W̴͕͠!̸̪͔̌͘!̴̛͙̀!̵̡̼̍͆̚!̵̹́"̵̘̰̫̅̿̏ Me: "Oh, it's Mr. Clinton."
About time. They were selling a TIG welder which was 200 AMP on a normal plug socket. People reported that the 13A fuse was bypassed with a thick wire behind it, to make it work, breaking UK laws and potentially burning your house down by melting your house wiring. 2 years after the review showed this, it was still up.
It's actually sad how much Amazon has declined. I find I pretty much have to already know what I'm looking for to be able to find anything worth a crap. If I search for "cordless drill" I should get Makita, Milwaukee, Dewalt, maybe even Worx and Kimo. I should NOT get several pages worth of the same few drill molds squirted into every color of plastic with brand names that are unprouncable gibberish! Also, anytime I get one of those giftcard review things, I get my gift card and then go back and edit my review to a 1 star and disclose the giftcard for review play. 🤣🤣🤣
Love your content and your cats, always thought you sound more authentic and passionate about your points than other youtubers! Please keep it up! Especially the kitty petting end part, need more of that.
Nice!!! Thank you for your service, Sir! You chair needs scratching, you vacuum the floor, the cats scratch the arm chair, it's divided tasks. Beautiful purr... My black cat lived till the ripe old age of 19 years.
Its nut just 3rd party sellers. The item you showed sold by Amazon shipped by Amazon. When it is a 3rd party seller, it shows Sold By company name Shipped by Amazon. 2.5 million subs , your character seems to be working. Keep up the good work.
Louis, I absolutely do not think you talk too fast. As someone who struggles to have the patience to wait for slow talkers to finish, listening to another person talking at a reasonable rate is a breath of fresh air. Keep doing you
My opinion is that Amazon prevented people from warning each other about shitter shops. This should be reason enough to fine Amazon something like 100 billion dollars.
Yup! All of these "I'm just the middleman" companies are totally dependent on reviews to maintain quality. If Amazon is going to squelch reviews, then it's just a fence and a counterfeiter.
I remember watching a video about how on Amazon you can buy incredibly powerful handheld lasers, so powerful that their ratings rarely match up with what you're actually getting, lasers that're powerful enough to cause fires, or if mishandled, cause immediate and severe eye injuries. So hopefully this may start to hold those sellers or at least Amazon accountable.
I have seen more than a few people in the car audio scene have massive subwoofers, and high powered amps on low gauge wiring with no fuse at all. I have personally seen what happens when you put to many amps threw a wire too small without a fuse, it starts with smoke and it ends with a fire. Fuses are there to protect wiring from over heating and starting fires. I have watched a car with power wire run on the floor board over heat, melt off the coating than short everything out in the car in a 10-15 second time period solely due to them lacking a inline fuse on power wire no where near its sold at power rating. A fuse will not save you from bad copper clad aluminum wiring sold pure copper, but it is an added fail safe.
"Turns out these were made improperly where they were grounded out from the factory, yeah? And what it did was ground itself out and blow up the amplifier. So the speakers were crap and it killed my head unit. Literally, like 1300 bucks worth of stuff destroyed. Destroyed!" -Wade, 30 Jul 2024
I bought some of those LED corn cob lights off Amazon years ago as a replacement for some fluorescent tube lights that were of the normal lightbulb thread. Both of them did not say to use in a particular direction which after they smolder/caught fire looking online I found that you’re not supposed to use them horizontally, but long story short got really lucky could have started a fire easily impacting many peoples lives.
Just over a year ago I bought a well reviewed surprisingly inexpensive Chinese lipo battery charger. After a few months I started to notice that it overcharges battery cells, and if you know anything about lipo chargers you can imagine that I stopped using it - but unfortunately it was too late to get a refund. Then two weeks ago I got a message from Amazon that it was recalled for being dangerous and so I got my refund, turns out it was making some batteries explode. I wonder how that happens… Apparently they are all defective from this factory and are missing some component that is essentially for preventing overcharging. … now, I’m lucky: it didn’t burn down my house and so me, my family and pets didn’t die in a fire. But it’s horrifying how easily that could have happened. This charger had thousands of 5 star reviews, real bullshit.. Amazon really needs to be reeled in on this, this shit could’ve killed my fucking family dude and it didn’t just because of luck and using a seperate meter to measure individual cell voltages. This shit needs to change
Manic or calm, you still are someone I love to listen to on ANY topic. Your boy purring into the camera is a wonderful bonus too. You be YOU, Louis. Just don’t stop talking or advocation and informing. Thank you x
The biggest issue I have with Amazon…so f-ing what, they remove a product made by FDJDIM, within a week the same exact product is listed by HDNMS company. Amazon encourages this because you see so many of these “smash your head on the keyboard” company names that are all cheap Chinese crap.
Aluminum foil taped to your chair where the cat wants to scratch, will discourage the cat from scratching. After a period of time you can remove the foil and feel pretty secure that the cat will leave it alone 😊
hard looking for quality stuff anywhere now. Search for car parts and you just start seeing names like: -Clear glass -White Fling -Nuktook -Bleusing Or whatever the hell some of these companies just decide to scrabble up as a name.
Amazon being held accountable for things that could kill people is different to UA-cam being held accountable. All we want is that these platforms take down things that could cause harm when they're pointed out.
This is the way!
BTW this dude was here before I had 100 subscribers. I remember seeing Mr. Fire's posts over 11 years ago. Thank you for sticking around!
@@rossmanngroup Ps! Don't compliment him... He was the one who was responsible for that battery fire on your porch in NY!
He is terrible after all.
@@CMDRSweeperwuh???
There are politicians and individuals in power who believe words and ideas are just as, if not more dangerous than dangerous, life threatening goods. 0.2% for the latter, 10% for the former with new online safety laws. The danger is, right to repair will be in their sights too.
@@rossmanngroup Bro is on yt since 3 years I think you remember someone else
Isn’t it strange how a UA-camr can be held accountable for random people’s comments on their videos but Amazon has no liability in fraudulent advertising and fake reviews about legitimate hazards?
Indeed
They managed to engineer themselves through the knothole of deniability while pretending they had no liability... I'm sure their complaint inbox is sent straight to trash.
The problem is that people want everyone else to be responsible for their actions. We should let the market dictate it. Not like pu*** bitches who want to blame everyone. Just like where restaurants are blamed for over serving
Amazing what being able to purchase politicians can do for you.
I’ll take “Signs We’re Living in a Plutocracy” for $500, Alex.
Anyone who has a happy kitty is a good kind person in my book.
Hitler had a happy dog
saw another youtuber point out that not only do they allow you to buy fake reviews, they'll also delete reviews that call that out because "the review isn't related to the product, because it's directed at the seller"
They're 100% complicit
Literally this. I have had feedback on deceptive listings rejected for exactly this reason. It is infuriating.
ur better buying at aliexpress
I still remember over 10 years ago you could make reviews directed at the seller no problem. TOTALLY not suspicious at all.
There was a terrible product I reviewed once and the brand tried to bribe me to remove it because it was voted as a helpful review. They tried to offer me gift cards in ever increasing value every time I said no, until they tried guilt tripping me by saying the company needs money to support someone with cancer or some nonsense like that. I never removed the review, so they removed the product listing and relisted it on Amazon so it could start fresh with only positive reviews.
I got banned from leaving Amazon reviews many years ago. Funny thing is, all my reviews were 5 stars. I reviewed a music CD and maybe one or two electronic items, all positively, no assholery involved. To this day I have no idea why I was banned. I wasn't notified either, I found out when I tried to leave another review one day and it wasn't being allowed to go through. I asked support and they never even replied.
Louis talks fast because he is passionate about these subjects.
He loves his job and it shows.
I've never minded his fast pace. Don't hold back, Louis.
Hugs for Mr. Clinton.
You don't listen on 1.75-2x speed?
Completely agree. Louis - don't change your style. There will always be people who dislike someone's approach or style, no matter what it is. It's comfortable for you and it's working for the vast majority of your subscribers.
Also - vastly respect your integrity and desire to hold companies and people to account.
I lost my cat Dobby 2 years ago and due to circumstances i am not able to have cats anymore, when you blasted Clinton's purring through the speakers to me i could feel my heartbeat slow down. That was one of the most zen and calm moments i have felt since i lost Dobby, thank you.
I'm so sorry to hear about your little four-legged buddy. I hope Dobby is feasting and purring in Odin's Hall. Ash, my Siamese of 18 years, went there in 2019 and chews the buttons on Odin's cargo shorts. :)
I'm sorry. Losing a cat is the hardest. Losing any animal is hard but cats just feel different somehow, like a deeper connection but maybe it's just me. Maybe if you have any friends with cats they'll let you come over and spend some time with their cat to help heal and receive the calming benefits of their purrs and companionship.
i've stopped buying products from amazon. the quality has gotten so bad that i'm better off shopping literally anywhere else.
If I can get it from a physical store, I will. I needed replacement earpads for my Meze headphones because the original ones were wearing out after three years of heavy use. I knew there was an audio store next to the local Domino's. I walked in and came out two minutes later with a fresh set of genuine Meze earpads.
Exactly, I buy directly from the company when I can.
Drives me insane people go on endlessly about "yeah but just return it you get a replacement" and all that. It's not a convenience when you have to do extra work because they screwed up...
I stopped buying from amazon years ago over their anti-worker policies. sorry, no more of my money for Bez*s's cock rocket
@@koifishjojo7947 Well at least temu and Ali express is cheaper crap compared to Amazon, the ethics are still questionable tho
Giving a company a meaningless tiny fine is basicly like saying "This is what it cost, to legally get away with whatever illegal stuff you did"
Clicking for see a grown man destroy Amazon: *no*
Clicking just for the cat: *yes*
I clicked for the cat, and to hear Louis call out company corruption as per usual
Always clicking for cats
Clinton “Clickbait” Rossmann
Always clicking for cat since the glorious chewing for Spoblock users tagging the cat for skips
I click for Clinton back scratches with ASMR meowing.
The Fullfilled by Amazon program, means that Amazon handles the distribution, and the seller is just a supplier.
They absolutely are the distributor in that case. They run the everything except product procurment. They warehouse it, they ship it, they advertise it, and they sell it.
Amazon selling a product from a manufacturer or the manufacturer selling on Amazon's market place are 2 different things.
@XtremGaia your argument would make sense if amazon still utilized UPS and FedEx and didn't warehouse the products they sell and hire their own employees to deliver shit. They are a distributor because they do everything a distributor does.
Amazon likes to think of themselves as Internet Explorer; “we just host a bunch of web-stores, we don’t sell the stuff ourselves.”
But they’re more like Walmart. Sure, I know I’m buying a mountain bike made by Huffy, but I bought it from Walmart. I paid Walmart. The charge to my credit card was from Walmart.”
If I pay money to Amazon, the merchandise ships from an Amazon warehouse, and it arrives in an Amazon box…then I bought it from Amazon and they’re responsible.
@@The93Vector exactly, if I buy an Apple from Walmart and it is poisioned then they can't just put the blame on some random farmer.
Sellers have to ensure that they don't kill their customers, it is different with youtube since they aren't selling comments but UA-cam does have a responsibility that no one is posting some nuclear warhead construction videos. Content creators are basically employed by UA-cam and if an employee f up then the employer has to take measures against them
yeah, except that's bullshit, and doesn't pass a basic sniff test. it would be like "butbut officer I'm not a drug dealer. I simply run a transportation service that moves the drugs from my pocket to their pocket!"
tell it to da judge
Does their own "Amazon Basics" brand not count as selling stuff themselves or what?
also, they don't make very clear on UI when you are buying from "Amazon Basics", or an independent store. I bet lots of people don't notice the difference. That's bad.
I really think that we need to stop calling people "consumers" and go back to calling them "customers".
^
Or, like Louis said, cursetomers.
Consumer is such a Commie term anyway to justfy Capitalism = bad and pointless. They won't be happy til everyone is wiping their asses with their hands and washing their clothes with dead people runoff...
But there's definitely some `comsoomers` that'll buy anything certain companies dump out, just because the brand and 0 regard of the quality.
I have said it for years. The fines should start at all profits made using that illegal activity. Then added on top of that. They will never stop doing the immoral and scam schemes if they are making money doing it.
Profit is what's leftover after all expenses. If that becomes law then there will be alot of new "non-profit" companies.
Hartford healthcare is "non-profit"
I have never understood why it doesn't. For you and me it would. If you and I went to the store and stole something we'd have to return the thing we stole and then pay a fine and do jail time. When corporations steal from us all they have to do is pay a fine which is often smaller than what they stole in the first place. That's just the price of doing business. I'm sick and tired of these people stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and getting a $10 million fine. If I could get away with that I would!
@@cirelestenYou're right they shouldn't have to return their profit they should have to return literally what they took. Even if that means they go bankrupt. Corporations should not be allowed to keep their stolen goods. Because remember just like you and me corporations are people my friend.
As a gen xer and a construction worker i have seen everything from tools to trucks go to shit over the decades.
There was a time when companies prided themselves on making the BEST products and standing behind it with pride, it really wasn't that long ago.
Blows my mind to know that products are designed for the dumpster.
Then their product became a saturated market, no one left willing to buy it, and the company loses business and goes under.
But if we lower the cost of production, not only will profits increase, the lifespan of the product will decrease, giving consumers incentive to buy again.
@@joebloe9901 seeing you work in construction what about these so called “trucks” with plastic bumpers? I couldn’t drive to one job site with these trucks scratching all the paint off that vinyl or plastic crap.
@@christoff4735 those trucks never haul anything except empty coffee cups😃
You're right and for this reason it's not wrong to design products with an intended lifetime rather than something that 'lasts forever'. But having products with a shorter intended lifetime isn't an excuse to make cheap and unsafe junk. Customers still recognize a quality product and still recognize when a brand has put a huge amount of effort in design.
Get that Milwaukee sonnnnn
If the FTC finds Amazon liable, that opens the way for lawsuits, which will hopefully cost Amazon a lot more than zero dollars. The fact that they are a platform means they have to show "due diligence" in "moderating" their content. Apparently the FTC found they are severely lacking in that department, which makes their defense of "we are a platform" no longer valid.
Hell ya
Now if only the most egregious abusers of section 230 "we are a platform" would get cracked down on.
Hopefully, will force changes across the board..
@@hochhaul Do note that 230 is mostly about editing the content to substitutive change it's meaning or add or subtract meaning from a piece of content. Merely disallowing certain content is mostly irrelevant to 230.
13 cents take it or leave it
Dude. You're one of the few UA-camrs I don't have to put on 2x playback. Please, please don't change that.
I ran into this recently. I tried leaving a one star review on a product that was messed up and turned out to be junk, and despite not being nasty about it and listing factual reasons why it was bad, Amazon refused to accept the review. I even tried cleaning it up and being nicer, but they still refused. Apparently their "guidelines" don't accept one star reviews most times.
I purchased an item and was sent a completely empty package. The package was well put together, with no holes or tears, nothing like that. It was simply empty. They did refund me but removed my 1 star review, claiming it was related to shipping and not the actual product itself. Such a joke.
Guess you gotta leave a 1.5 or 2 star review at that point, but just put in a lot of negatives in it.
I recently wanted to buy a new printer, an Epson Eco tank model, but Amazon sent me a return, already filled with ink... As anyone with some braincells could imagine, all the ink did end up in the bag containing the printer, which was nicely drenched in cyan ink. I sent it back where it came from and wrote 2 reviews, both one star and only the one where I didn't write about insufficient and damaged packaging, the missing Ink bottles and about Amazon sending out returns without mentioning it on the product page got accepted in the end. I repaired and cleaned up our old Epson and it prints perfectly now. What a waste of resources.
I leave 1 stars on books all the time 😂
I quit using Amazon about 7yrs ago. Way to many fake products posing as the real product. Just like with a lot auto parts.
I'm here for normal Louis. Do whatever's natural for you man. Always appreciate you bringing awareness to the nonsense these conglomerates are up to.
Exactly
Plus when he does go off it's more impactful.
No, that ending is exactly why Amazon needs to pay for protecting bad products. A thing of dental wipes marketed as being for dogs and cats killed my cousin’s cat several months ago, and Amazon won’t let you use words like kill or died in the reviews. The product is still there, still listed as being for cats as well, with 8k supposedly being ordered in the past month. The average cat owner most likely isn’t aware that citrus is highly poisonous to cats. That includes every part of a grapefruit, including the grapefruit seed extract they’ve got right there in the ingredient list. I believe Vayda was 12. She didn’t make it 24 hours after the dental wipes were used for all of six seconds. She didn’t deserve to suffer the way she did. No one who loves their cat deserves to experience buying a product to better their life only to see if horrifically kill them. It should not still be available and still be marketed for cats. Everything about the situation is wrong. So fuck Amazon. I wish they’d be fined into the ground for every dangerous product. But nah. Pets are possessions, not family members under law.
Came for the cat.
Stayed to flip the bird to Amazon.
As an electrician I always tell my clients never to buy fixtures from Amazon and I will not install them.
The website advertises it as an approved product in canada, but they never have the proper approvals supplied. I have even had interior designers supply these trash fixtures, only to be embarrassed when the electricians won't install it.
You mean the paperwork that shows it was approved by Inspector #2, even though the numbers are way outside of even their "approved" tolerance, isn't good enough?
There's something really relaxing about hearing a purring cat...
I stopped leaving reviews on Amazon because my negative reviews were denied for not meeting their imaginary standards.
I was permanently banned from leaving reviews on Amazon for calling out a garbage product that put a card in the box saying they would send a gift card worth more than the item if I left a 5 star review.
I’ve tried appealing it but they completely ignore the inbox appeals go to. When I tell this to their customer support they just tell me to try again until I get a response 😐
Did that before I stopped shopping there.
5:02 Amazon isn’t like eBay, which just provides a platform for selling items. “Fulfilled by Amazon” means Amazon is _warehousing_ and _distributing_ products sourced by third-party sellers.
That's just providing a logistics service to the seller though. I think the better argument is that they partially obscure the seller and do not make it obvious that you're not buying from Amazon. Compare this with eBay who make it very obvious who the seller is, and that the seller isn't Amazon.
My dad wasn't even aware Amazon did this as he doesn't buy from them often so ordered a tablet from Amazon fully in the belief that he was buying from Amazon not realizing it was a third party seller.
Of course, eBay hasn't scared the American merchants away, like Amazon has.
There's a reason that "Jassy's yellow arrow" is full of Chinese trash now...
@@Code7Unltdexactly and I think that's because the seller is more obvious on eBay and people understand that it's not eBay selling the product. That makes people more closely scrutinize the seller.
Amazon does the reverse and puts the product first, downplaying the seller as if the sellers are interchangeable.
I think by doing this, with the way Amazon presents the information Amazon is effectively endorsing the sellers (even if they try to claim that they do not). Amazon's brand is first and foremost, followed by the product while the seller is hidden away.
I don't really see why ebay shouldn't also be held accountable for the things people sell there.
They are running a business and generating profit. Why shouldn't they need to use some of that profit to make sure nothing untowards happens on their platform
I don't really see why ebay shouldn't also be held accountable for the things people sell there.
They are running a business and generating profit. Why shouldn't they need to use some of that profit to make sure nothing untowards happens on their platform
That last few minutes with the cat was pure heaven, thank you for keeping the camera rolling while you were playing with Clinton, I have an orange cat about his age and the few moments I get to play with my own cat through out the day absolutely cures my soul and its nice seeing something else experiencing that.
Louis dabbling into cat ASMR. That gets a seal of approval.
I doubt the purring is coming from the cat. I think it's coming from Louis himself
People say you talk too fast? I watch all your videos on double speed. Thank you for being the only person I don’t wish I had 3x for!!!
Considering the number of times they've been reported for selling dangerous radioactive quack health products alone and continued to sell them, this is way overdue.
Though they did remove most or all the atomic products once the regulator was told by people.
@tutacat maybe temporarily. But multiple people have done videos on basically a yearly basis. I've purchased radioactive necklaces from them within the last few months.
It has since been removed but Amazon had a 1 star parallel surge protector with many photos of the thing burned out and comments with links to how it was lo longer UL listed since 2016. I reported the item but it had been for sale for YEARS.
"Amazon is not a distributor" Then what are these distribution centers?
What are those vans?
They're "fulfillment centers"
Legal language is that stupid.
"Fulfilled by Amazon."
Ok so who else ships SOOLOL brand overseas knock-offs across the entire country?
"Nobody, they're only offered on Amazon."
... and you're not their 'distributor'?
"Absolutely not."
@@butwhytharum They actually have three types of facilities in their fulfillment network, fulfillment centers, sort centers, and delivery stations, conveniently avoiding the word distribute. Fulfillment centers are where the garbage is warehoused and packaged, sort centers are where the garbage is sorted by address, and delivery stations are the stop before your front door. I guess they have a different definition of the word "distribute".
There needs to be significant increase in fines for massive corporations, to the point where it is not chump change to them.
Charge per affected person, based on how significant the offence is. That way the punishment fits the offence, and companies that violate laws against tens of millions of customers get significant fines, without simply having agencies or courts guess at what is reasonable for something like this. And make them calculate the total amount of money they made off of something like illegally selling data, and add triple that amount on top of the fine for the violation itself.
NGL, during first half of the video I thought the thumbnail was just there to clickbait, but second half didn't disappoint. Not only did we get Clinton during the rant but an additional 6min kitty ASMR session with lots of petting. Truely deserved 11/10, would recommend.
It’s about time Amazon is held accountable for allowing dangerous and scam products on their platform. I hope this accountability extends to fake storage devices like counterfeit SD cards and SSDs, as well as other fraudulent items. Consumers deserve better protection and transparency.
we're already on the slippery slope. Good news is the Secret Service can't get us so long as we are on the slope.
no sir, that's just the secret service b team you are thinking of, reserved for ppl they don't really care about
Fines should be “40-50% of their annual income for the year prior as reported in annual reports”. Make it very clear that messing up is not worth it to companies.
Companies shouldn't be treated as artificial people , somebody in amazon willfully authorized to sell dangerous products because they know they are free from consequences and penalties from doing the crime is much less than profit from doing crime. want to scam people just open a company and be too big to face consequences.
Yes, corporate personhood is really just shielding from the consequences of their actions. It needs to go.
@@doltBmB corporate personhood even existing is anti-capitalist
@@thomas.thomasLimitied liability corporations made perfect sense when it was a frontier world and you had nations that wanted to fibd ways to get their elites to take chances to develop things quickly.
We are no longer a frontier world but we have yet to claw back the protections that incentivized risk-taking and rapid growth. Instead, we have built our entire financial system around it, with losses borne by the public, and profits privatized.
We need the corporate veil to be pierced more easily to punish bad actors, and we need leadership positions to have the onus to prove they have disincentivized illegal behaviours by their underlings that stand to benefit the company, not mere plausible deniability created by a published ethics manual that sits in a dusty corner.
Then again, we also need proactive enforcement by regulators, not merely complaints-based systems with processes so laborious that no common person will have the time or energy to engage with them, let alone finish them.
If corporations are people,they should be fined (in shares) or imprisoned (nationalized) if they commit crimes
Amazon should have the same voting rights as Clinton the cat. None. And that counts for donations to politicians too of course
Speak how you want to speak. UA-cam has a speed option if people want to use it and I for one have gotten used to your hyperactive presentations. They're amusing, informative and I look forward to every single one of them!
Amazon is like a supermarket. If you would hold Macy's or any other chain accountable for this kind of stuff, Amazon should be held accountable for the same stuff
Thanks Clinton for your tireless work supporting right to repair and consumer rights!
I’m serious. Purrs make the human able to de-stress and keep up the good fight!
Thank you for the kitty cam and audio at the end, it made me feel so much better and relaxed hearing him purr.
If its "fulfilled by Amazon" they absolutely should be more accountable. That distinction implies to the customer that its more trustworthy than products shipped directly from the seller.
Now... if they can just stop delivering my packages to other addresses and then telling me its my problem...
Tell them how you feel with your money. That's the only thing corporations care about.
Had this happen so many times I just stopped using them. If the product doesn't have their own website with their own method of delivery I pretty much don't need it.
Amazon needs to stop using a third party so they are not Responsible for it
@@Spolt_main I agree, would rather use fleabay. I know they are bad but at least they have some type of seller feedback. Many sellers use both marketplaces, or their own private site but you have to be careful for malicious clone sites.
Let's be clear that the "they" at fault is Amazon for paying their delivery folks so little and giving them such brutal quotas that the human beings responsible for ensuring that A gets to B have neither the time nor the incentive to ensure that your stuff gets to the right house.
And this includes your US Postal Worker whose load has been tripled while his coworkers have been fired, all so Louie DeJoy can win some points with his future employers.
Finally, the real star of this channel getting the airtime he has so rightly deserved.
I canceled on the 28th and am never going back. They force vendors into anti-competitive pricing. They hide stuff from you so you're forced to buy the brands they get the biggest commission. Too many products were not what was described or were cheap Chinese junk. For example, I bought a 6' 'come-along' to tighten a fence. It wasn't six feet. Wasn't close. I bought a set of hole-saws and one hole in a 3/8" piece of plywood dulled the cheap steel so fast I could barely finish the one hole, never mind the six I needed. Other products were fakes or were deceptively marketed. The final straw was their streaming. They put most of their good streaming behind paywalls or I rent to them while they butchered Tolkien and other IPs that were, at one time, great. Plus $3.00 to not have commercials. Forget it...
Oh, I was also banned from reviews for calling out their bad products and deceptive marketing.
The paying for not being harassed by ten minutes of commercials for Amazon Prime (the service I subscribed to) was the last straw. I have never been fond of Amazon but rather than just hike the price if they were struggling, they instead had to create ads for me to pay to get rid off. There wasn't anything non-Amazon being advertised so it raised the question what the fk are they advertising?
They're not they are just extorting people.
A company with 360 performance reviews that encouraged them to throw their coworkers under the bus Darwinistically selects for sociopaths - and that is what Amazon appears to be run by now.
their paid streaming has ads? bruh
Yeah, I'm decided to cancel my prime and essentially start ordering directly from sellers or buying local. Too much questionable junk and I don't have time to figure out if a product is legit nor not.
@@thomas.thomas The hottest trend in paid streaming TV now is advertising. Netflix started it with their cheaper ad-supported plan.
Of course, now Netflix is trying to break into mobile gaming because of Fortnite.
Maybe management need to start going to jail and the company needs to get fines of 10-100x the money they made off the information they sold.
The problem about fines is that they go to the company, not the executives. As it stands, if a company catches a fine, they lay off workers and cut benefits, instead of touching dividends or the boni of managers.
I worked as a contractor on-site for a major government agency. They gave me a me.[agency].gov email address and I got newsletters from the agency reporting on the many fraud cases they cracked. There was a pattern: Non-corporate companies with real human owners got major jail time, while corporations with deep pockets doing the same thing only much worse just got fined.
I found your channel about five years ago and I've gotten to watch your fur family grow in that time. Mr Clinton is such a beautiful cat and he is clearly loved well. On top of that, he's got a wonderful purr. I hope Oreo and Blackberry are also well. Cheers.
Limited liability protections and fines that are pennies on the dollar need to stop. I'm just so dang tired of these companies getting slapped on the wrist for something that would send a regular citizen to jail. Just try selling faulty products and ignoring reports as an individual, see where those fraud and reckless endangerment charges get you.
Now that's quality content. 10/10
I love how Louis after spending so much time with tech still remembers the most important things in life. True, focused person with a perfect set of priorities.
To be fair, bad clothing can contain harmful chemicals, wasn't it a certain Chinese junk site starting with a T that sold childrens clothing containing mercury or something insane?
I figure everything that site sells is just lead with a mercury coating.
That was Shein.
@@youforget1000thingsaday So a Chinese junk site starting with an S
Not clothes but make-up products
@@youforget1000thingsadayAlso Temu
Over the last several years, Costco has twice notified me of recalled products and gave me refunds and asked to return the products to the store (optional).
My flatmate bought a 200$ product from Amazon. We had mentioned to deliver it after 5 PM. They delivered it at 11 AM when no one was home. Got stolen. Amazon told us to go to the cops and refused to refund. Building manager says we need police complaint to review CCTV footage. My flatmate writes it down as a loss because he doesn't want to deal with the cops mess. All the while Amazon even refused to give a Proof of Delivery and says you can reach out the Delivery company by yourself if you need. What a mess!
The nerve. How dare a business blatantly ignore such entitlement.
That's just nuts. They've really gone all the way to criminal gang.
Always found it weird that companies can get away with the worst crap possible, even with deaths as a result, but as soon as a person goes out for a peacefull protest they get arrested on the smallest excuse they can find.
I saw this in a news story, and I was just thinking to myself "Louis is going to be so happy when he hears this"
Seriously this is a big win.
i for one appreciate youtubers that talk faster. i watch pretty much all content at 1.5x (except music of course), and i don't feel like i need to slow you down in any of your videos. to me, it's just being more efficient with time, and getting the information in faster. it's the clarity with which you speak that matters more than anything, and you speak very clearly.
One of the recent scooby doo movies have great satire against this. They catch a guy doing white collar crimes, tax evasion and such. And Fred sighs and goes "Take him away." and the officer goes "Uh... we don't arrest people for those crimes. Now: Do you promise to pay back what you owe?" and the guy just goes "... Yes?" and gets a "Alright then! That's that!" and everyone leaves.
Oh that actually reminds me why I stopped bothering to leave reviews on Amazon. I bought a dryer thermostat, along with a multimeter that happened to include a temperature probe. So I decided to test what temperature it would trip at, and it turned it to be a lot higher than it was supposed to be. I posted a detailed review about this, including exactly how I'd tested it and how I ruled out it being the temperature probe that was wrong. And Amazon themselves rejected the review, stating some general guidelines which I couldn't see how I could possibly have stuck to any more closely. And with no way to find out why *exactly* they'd rejected it. So I gave up.
And yet they still keep pestering me to leave reviews all the time, and leave up other reviews which clearly completely break their rules. It makes no sense.
I'm 1:45 into this video, I work in the electrical wholesale market, and my 13 years experience says that Amazon should not selling any electrical or safety equipment period.
Consumers should be purchasing this type of product at licensed wholesalers.
...same with medical/dental products...it's crazy 🤪
Same thing with Carabiners for mountain climbing, there are products on there that blatantly lie about what it's rated for. Or show pictures of them being used for climbing but have fine print saying it's for attaching waterbottles or keys or whatever. I know most people understand and will purchase from recognized brands but if you're entirely new to the sport you can be fooled.
I try very hard to buy from companies I know. My beef is with companies that will not sell direct to me or have a convenient reseller. I agree with you because work equipment like testers and power tools being safe can be a life or death matter
Even though this seems like a good idea, you will get the same issue you have at car dealers a $2 hose, will cost you $80 at the dealer.
There are plenty of legit and safe products, the end user needs to do their research, and the company that allows dangerous items to be sold, need to be held accountable.
Yep, I ordered some Siemens parts that were priced at half what I pay from Siemens. Yep, they were fakes and my review got deleted.
I only buy from Amazon if I have no other choice. They destroy local businesses, and sell shoddy stuff sometimes.
AMAZON TO LOUIS: 'WE HATES THE BAGGINS! HATES IT! FOREVERRRRRRRR! OH, FUCK, MY PRECIOUS MONEY!"
That cat take is the best thing ever, pure kitty ASMR. Purrrfectly tingly.
If the FTC were to issue a significant fine, the company would call up their senator and remind him of how much money they gave his PAC last year. Then he calls the head of the FTC --- an appointed position --- and tells him to back off or seek employment elsewhere.
Just ran into you at Modern Market like an hour ago. I was gonna tell you how much I appreciate your content, but didn't want to interrupt your phone call. Good stuff as always Louis!
Thank you for the kind words!!!
They will never ever bill a big company any real money. If they did, that company would die. Every investor would try and get out, and lots and lots of people would loss jobs and mainly the government would loss a ton of tax. So they just wont do a fecking thing that makes any real difference for the real people. Thanks for the videos. Lovely cat. Cheers
Us politician have millions and millions invested In Amazon, Google, Nvidia etc... they won't pass any laws or press charges against those company because it's not in their interest to see the stock price tank... Put your mouth where your money is!
Finally someone said it. These scum bags just buy the right amount of legislators needed and the problem vanishes.
Best last 5 minutes ever. Thank you Clinton!
If you look at Amazon reviews as many sellers that have very high reviews but if you look at the one-star reviews you see that they drew a line through it saying that the product was shipped by Amazon which is an absolute lie and they take the review off of their negatives. It says something about
fulfillment is the responsibility of Amazon. But the product was shipped by the seller directly. Amazon's been lying for a long time.
Mr. Clinton, you're such a cool cat!
With all seriousness, your way of putting words together works for me with your «normal speed». But I'm glad YT allows slowing it down for those who are less comfortable with your pace.
I would pay attention to the news about a multi-million company being held accountable but.... CAT!! 😻
You're great Louis. Don't change a thing. I've watched you for many years and greatly admire you.
Clicked for Clinton, stayed for title.
Clicked for Clinton, stayed for Clinton, and again wish I could have pets in my apartment.
A shockingly small amount of Clinton.
The topic is always worth it.
Clinton cam feed would be good. But finding a collar mount camera is tough due to loads of software locking and anti-consumer support
I only watched to see that well lubed cat.
Is that clickbait?....
We just want to see Clinton!
I'm a new viewer. I find all of your videos informative, insightful, truthful, and genuinely funny. You fold in ethics, philosophy and humanity into the the topics explored. I wouldn't dare suggest you change a thing. You provide a unique view in a concise manor. If other people need watch it on half-speed to comprehend what you're saying, that option is there for them. Personally, I'm a speed-reader, so I'm able to digest your information at your normal speed. Thank you for your hard work.
Me: "Is Louis looking at one of his cats? I wonder which one is it."
Cat: "̴̝̱̒M̷̫̺̻̃͆́Ā̴̝̼̻̋͝Ơ̷̩̪͘W̴͕͠!̸̪͔̌͘!̴̛͙̀!̵̡̼̍͆̚!̵̹́"̵̘̰̫̅̿̏
Me: "Oh, it's Mr. Clinton."
I love Clinton the Cat, the purrs are everything and I am smiling from ear to ear. ❤
About time.
They were selling a TIG welder which was 200 AMP on a normal plug socket. People reported that the 13A fuse was bypassed with a thick wire behind it, to make it work, breaking UK laws and potentially burning your house down by melting your house wiring. 2 years after the review showed this, it was still up.
It's actually sad how much Amazon has declined. I find I pretty much have to already know what I'm looking for to be able to find anything worth a crap. If I search for "cordless drill" I should get Makita, Milwaukee, Dewalt, maybe even Worx and Kimo. I should NOT get several pages worth of the same few drill molds squirted into every color of plastic with brand names that are unprouncable gibberish!
Also, anytime I get one of those giftcard review things, I get my gift card and then go back and edit my review to a 1 star and disclose the giftcard for review play. 🤣🤣🤣
Love your content and your cats, always thought you sound more authentic and passionate about your points than other youtubers! Please keep it up! Especially the kitty petting end part, need more of that.
Come for the learning stay for the purring. Love you Clinton the cat! ❤
CLINTON: 12:02
There
Thank you.
You are a good human
Needs more Clinton.
You can't say it's clickbait, it features Clinton.
Yeaaaaahhhh...... That's the stuff
why does clinton sound like a motorocycle engine
You are as good as it gets, and I will always enjoy your videos.. Thank you for being You.
Nice!!! Thank you for your service, Sir!
You chair needs scratching, you vacuum the floor, the cats scratch the arm chair, it's divided tasks.
Beautiful purr...
My black cat lived till the ripe old age of 19 years.
I love the animated pissed off fast speaking cat scaring Louis.
Its nut just 3rd party sellers. The item you showed sold by Amazon shipped by Amazon. When it is a 3rd party seller, it shows Sold By company name Shipped by Amazon. 2.5 million subs , your character seems to be working. Keep up the good work.
YES! We got to see Mr. Clinton the cat 🐈😺 👋🏼. ❤😊
Louis Rossman is the man!! Thank you sir for all that you do.
Louis, I absolutely do not think you talk too fast. As someone who struggles to have the patience to wait for slow talkers to finish, listening to another person talking at a reasonable rate is a breath of fresh air. Keep doing you
My opinion is that Amazon prevented people from warning each other about shitter shops. This should be reason enough to fine Amazon something like 100 billion dollars.
Yup! All of these "I'm just the middleman" companies are totally dependent on reviews to maintain quality. If Amazon is going to squelch reviews, then it's just a fence and a counterfeiter.
I remember watching a video about how on Amazon you can buy incredibly powerful handheld lasers, so powerful that their ratings rarely match up with what you're actually getting, lasers that're powerful enough to cause fires, or if mishandled, cause immediate and severe eye injuries.
So hopefully this may start to hold those sellers or at least Amazon accountable.
I have seen more than a few people in the car audio scene have massive subwoofers, and high powered amps on low gauge wiring with no fuse at all.
I have personally seen what happens when you put to many amps threw a wire too small without a fuse, it starts with smoke and it ends with a fire. Fuses are there to protect wiring from over heating and starting fires. I have watched a car with power wire run on the floor board over heat, melt off the coating than short everything out in the car in a 10-15 second time period solely due to them lacking a inline fuse on power wire no where near its sold at power rating.
A fuse will not save you from bad copper clad aluminum wiring sold pure copper, but it is an added fail safe.
"Turns out these were made improperly where they were grounded out from the factory, yeah?
And what it did was ground itself out and blow up the amplifier. So the speakers were crap and it killed my head unit.
Literally, like 1300 bucks worth of stuff destroyed. Destroyed!"
-Wade, 30 Jul 2024
I bought some of those LED corn cob lights off Amazon years ago as a replacement for some fluorescent tube lights that were of the normal lightbulb thread. Both of them did not say to use in a particular direction which after they smolder/caught fire looking online I found that you’re not supposed to use them horizontally, but long story short got really lucky could have started a fire easily impacting many peoples lives.
Just hit play and I already know it's going to be good.
Just over a year ago I bought a well reviewed surprisingly inexpensive Chinese lipo battery charger. After a few months I started to notice that it overcharges battery cells, and if you know anything about lipo chargers you can imagine that I stopped using it - but unfortunately it was too late to get a refund. Then two weeks ago I got a message from Amazon that it was recalled for being dangerous and so I got my refund, turns out it was making some batteries explode. I wonder how that happens…
Apparently they are all defective from this factory and are missing some component that is essentially for preventing overcharging. … now, I’m lucky: it didn’t burn down my house and so me, my family and pets didn’t die in a fire. But it’s horrifying how easily that could have happened. This charger had thousands of 5 star reviews, real bullshit.. Amazon really needs to be reeled in on this, this shit could’ve killed my fucking family dude and it didn’t just because of luck and using a seperate meter to measure individual cell voltages. This shit needs to change
I remember that fuse video! It was insane how long that fuse lasted lol
Manic or calm, you still are someone I love to listen to on ANY topic. Your boy purring into the camera is a wonderful bonus too. You be YOU, Louis. Just don’t stop talking or advocation and informing. Thank you x
The biggest issue I have with Amazon…so f-ing what, they remove a product made by FDJDIM, within a week the same exact product is listed by HDNMS company. Amazon encourages this because you see so many of these “smash your head on the keyboard” company names that are all cheap Chinese crap.
Many thanks for your video, and more thanks for your crew in recovering my data from my hard drive. You guys are awesome.
Aluminum foil taped to your chair where the cat wants to scratch, will discourage the cat from scratching. After a period of time you can remove the foil and feel pretty secure that the cat will leave it alone 😊
My cats thought the foil was great. They tore it off and proudly trotted off with their shiny new toy...
hard looking for quality stuff anywhere now.
Search for car parts and you just start seeing names like:
-Clear glass
-White Fling
-Nuktook
-Bleusing
Or whatever the hell some of these companies just decide to scrabble up as a name.
Rossman Group 2024: tech repairs and cat grooming services.