![]() Listing conditions for Amazon Warehouse Deals 5. Are Amazon Warehouse Deals owned by Amazon? 3. This hard drive wasn't inspected, or the inspection process isn't fit for purpose.Amazon Warehouse is a business of Amazon that sells quality used products and rents out used textbooks. ![]() Secondly, and just as seriously, the Warehouse Deals inspection sticker seems to be no guarantee at all. Firstly, some people are purchasing products from Amazon and using the no-quibble returns process to their advantage to steal. ![]() (Opens in a new window) ^CL." Tweet (Opens in a new window)Ĭlearly a refund or replacement drive will now be forthcoming, but the incident highlights a couple of serious problems with Amazon's Warehouse Deals. You can find your available return/replacement options here. After further inspection, Hakker confirmed in a tweet that the drive casing, "has the tell tale scars of having been opened by the user.And yup, the last person bought this 16TB, swapped the drive inside for an 8TB, then returned it with the 8TB inside for a full refund." Amazon Help responded (Opens in a new window) to the tweet, saying "Sorry to hear you didn't receive what you were expecting. It revealed the amount of available storage was 8TB, and therefore only half the amount expected. But in this case, the drive was far from genuine as a HDD utility soon revealed.Īfter hooking it up, CrystalDiskInfo was run to check the state of the drive. The drive arrived complete with the "Amazon Warehouse Deals INSPECTED" sticker attached to reassure the person they bought a genuine, checked product. Twitter user and visual effects artist Ashley Hakker (Opens in a new window) posted details of a 16TB external Seagate Expansion Desktop (Opens in a new window) hard drive they purchased as a Warehouse Deal from Amazon. However, as one unlucky consumer in Canada discovered, you aren't always going to get what you paid for. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)Īs well as selling brand new items, Amazon offers a number of so-called " Warehouse Deals (Opens in a new window)" consisting of pre-owned, used, or open box items.
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