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Everyone trying to get that last deal

and yeah sure i can take amazon gift card or something similar. doesn't have to be paypal

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I've also never received fake disks from Amazon. My last disk purchase from Amazon.de was this Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD, 2TB on Black Friday for 138,30 euros.

OK. I've bought dozens of drives on Amazon over the last 10 years and have never gotten a fake. And if those WD Black drives that have lasted 6+ years are fake, they're better made.

Maybe from the Samsung storefront on Amazon it'll be OK. Personally, I wouldn't risk it. I've had several fake drives from Amazon, even from reputable looking stores on there.

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An issue is that they apparently commingle items from different sources in the same bin. So an EVO direct from Samsung and sold by Amazon would go in the same bin as one from Joe's Genuine computer pa

Yes it can be fake. It is sold by Amazon (fulfilled and shipped by amazon) and not by Samsung, Amazon can buy fake products (unintentionally) or put fake 'unopened' returns in the same box and sell it

So, as an example, this drive sold by Samsung themselves on Amazon is fake?

Personally, for stuff like SSDs, I'd only buy from these two companies. Amazon and Aliexpress and the like are always always going to be fake.

Will take a look to Lightsail.

If you want correct and working geolocation, get Amazon EC2 or Lightsail. I have a Singaporean Lightsail Instance and it geolocates correctly.

At that point, wouldn't the datacenter company have a financial edge on hosting market? This seems to be the case for Amazon and Hetzner where both provide cloud and dedi servers and own whole of thei

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I use vCard to pay for amazon and twitch (and ..patreon) just fine from asia.