Amazon sold bottles of urine marketed as an energy drink, a new documentary reveals. The company also makes it alarmingly easy to sell dangerous items to children.

Amazon sold bottles of urine marketed as an energy drink, a new documentary reveals. The company also makes it alarmingly easy to sell dangerous items to children.

  • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.oneEnglish
    138·
    9 months ago

    Not surprising in the least. I was part of an Amazon product review program, but I stopped participating after seeing multiple posts for pet treats that contained ingredients that are harmful to dogs. Reporting the listings was a nightmare, and they were never taken down.

    Fuck you, Amazon.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      9 months ago

      Not sure if I want to blame Amazon or just pet food companies.

      I had two cats. My first cat died around 4 years. The vet tried her best. The second cat was hitting the same symptoms and went on a special vet diet and still lives.

      I got two new cats later. Decide to feed them supermarket pet food. Same symptoms as the prior cats around the same age.

      I now feed them expensive cat foods that’s 3x the cost. They have been happy and healthy.

      I know not everyone can afford it. But I highly suspect that modern cheap catfood is full of bad shit.

      • FarFarAwayEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        I used to work at a vet clinic. Almost all the cats with new urinary blockages ate fancy feast, cat chow, or some similar Wal-Mart brand.

        I would feel bad even feeding feral cats that crap.

    • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
      English
      15·
      9 months ago

      To give them a very tiny sliver of credit, they did pull a good number of the radioactive “quantum healing” quackery they were selling… after it got attention of course.

      • GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        Wish on the other hand…

        So many radioactive products instructed to be worn over major arteries in one place for extended periods of time. What could go wrong?..

    • brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      252·
      9 months ago

      I just learned that the Amazon tablet/e-reader thing is literally called Amazon Fire. Like… Seriously. It’s a little on the nose, no? Like Bezos and his team KNOW and sell this shit to people laughing all the way to the bank and people just line up. I’m so done with this world.

    • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Could always build something home-made rocket launchers and incindiary missiles and launch from a distance

      Or you could yeet a molotov cocktail at an amazon warehouse but tuat requires you to be closer and is more riskier

      /s

      This is a joke NSA, CIA, ASIO, etc

  • Neato@kbin.social
    471·
    9 months ago

    But inside, each bottle was filled with urine allegedly discarded by Amazon delivery drivers and collected from plastic bottles by the side of the road.

    That didn’t stop Amazon from listing it for sale, though. Release even attained number one bestseller status in the “Bitter Lemon” category.

    Absolutely amazing.

    (No members of the public were actually sent driver urine; instead Butler corralled a group of friends into making the purchases.)

    That’s good. But the fact that someone could buy it and get sent urine via Amazon is horrifying.

    Knowing that Amazon processes returns based on the weight of the incoming packages, he sends back buckets of sand to get his money back—attempting to shield himself from legal liability for fraud by running everything through a shell company in Belize.

    They STILL do this? I remember people saying they buy refurbished or open-box graphics cards and received bricks. That was more than a decade ago.

    • YoFrodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      9 months ago

      Also this part

      “I thought that the food and drinks licensing would stop me from listing it, so I started it out in this Refillable Pump Dispenser category. Then the algorithm moved it into drinks.”

    • bitsplease@lemmy.mlEnglish
      71·
      9 months ago

      They STILL do this? I remember people saying they buy refurbished or open-box graphics cards and received bricks. That was more than a decade ago.

      They’ll keep doing it until it stops being cost effective. The fact is that the number of fraudsters are drastically outnumbered by good actors, and compared to their revenue, a few missing graphics cards are literally nothing

  • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    9 months ago

    as someone that drives for Amazon flex I am shockingly chill about this news, I just want to know how I can get paid by selling my piss through amazon

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      I’m honestly shocked that Amazon would let them sell piss. That seems like more of an OnlyFans market.

      • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        hell, if the demand is there, I shall supply the market, on any website they desire! I will chug water for several hours a day in between bringing you your packages, america! a deep sacrifice I am willing to make for the poor souls who need an energy boost and yet have 6.99 in discretionary income.

  • dlpkl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    Oobah is fucking hilarious yet incredibly illuminating on issues that you don’t hear much about. Ghost kitchens, snooty haute couture, and now selling body fluids to stay afloat. Wild.

  • Uvine_Umarylis@partizle.com
    English
    142·
    9 months ago

    There are limits to these ‘not the onion’ jokes…

    Edit after reading:

    OK, at least none were actually sold to unaware people to drink, thank god!!!

    Though to think Amazon was more than ready to sell them tho…