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
    102·
    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.

    • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      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
        13·
        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
      222·
      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.

          • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            That’s fair. Honestly, it was kind of a dumb move on their part to name their tablets “Kindle Fire” on release, as it confused almost everyone with what was an e-reader and what wasn’t. By the time they returned it to just “Fire” / “Fire Tablet” to match other product families (Fire Phone, Fire TV), the damage was done. The only reason I can keep it straight is the fact that I worked on them for a decade.

            • brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              11·
              9 months ago

              I mean it’s kind of genius marketing though, just straight up comically villainous/evil, like we’re living in a cartoon. One of the top 3, if not the top 1, companies has branches called “The Amazon Fire” while we’re literally fucking burning the rainforests in Amazon down. Amazon Kindle, Amazon Fire. That shit is just evil.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        9 months ago

        I never thought of it this way but yeah… That made it through a bunch of levels in their company and no one there thought of it either. Wow…

    • 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

  • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    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
        6·
        9 months ago

        hell, if the demand is there, I shall supply the market, on any website they desire! a deep sacrifice I am willing to make for the people who need an energy boost and have 6.99 in discretionary income.

  • Neato@kbin.social
    30·
    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.

    • 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

  • 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.comEnglish
    81·
    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…