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I wonder how long it'll take for an online thievery marketplace will pop-up selling Amazon Flex delivery data. For example, if you know you delivered a $10k gol
by IkmoIkmo 11y ago
I wonder how long it'll take for an online thievery marketplace will pop-up selling Amazon Flex delivery data. For example, if you know you delivered a $10k gold apple watch (hypothetically), I can bet you that a local thief would pay you at least $100 for you to tell him which house it was delivered to.
In fact, my neighbour's home was broken into last year. Turns out (unbeknownst to us), he apparently had a safe in his home with nearly half a million in value (watches, diamonds etc. Huge surprise to us because we know him as a chubby, nerdy government worker who drives an electric bicycle to work, never would've expected him to have some kind of tony montana thing going on in his house haha). Anyway so we spoke to him and the police after and apparently a small crew broke into his home and went straight for the safe with specialised equipment, i.e. they knew exactly where to go and someone had told them, and they made a massive, massive haul. Imagine you worked at Amazon Flex and delivered a rolex, that's valuable information.
Anyway there are the usual problems with this that you see at eBay or the SR (how do you escrow payments on what obviously must be an illegal online service with anonymous owners, and if you don't have escrow how do you establish trust between merchant and buyer), added to the fact it's pretty easy for the police to trace it back to a delivery man if it happens often enough. Anyway wouldn't be surprised to see it happen within a few years.
- mseebach 11y agoI've never received an Amazon package that listed its contents on the outside. The reason for this appears fairly obvious.
- garyrichardson 11y agoAlso, in what world are people casually priming a new rolex? I see it as either: - a stretch luxury purchase for the average person -- I'm going to expect white glove service from a high end jeweller. Or possibly a shady Craigslist deal. - a 1%er is going to send their personal shopper to pick it out and bring it to them
- tomschlick 11y agoBut if you're delivering on the product launch day and you've delivered 20 of the same shape/size/weight with the same sender information (no matter how obscure) it would be easy to infer.
- jonknee 11y agoWhat valuable product that's easy to fence are the masses ordering from Amazon on launch day? Amazon isn't the Apple Store.
- vertis 11y agoWith a few exceptions (such as your example above), the expensive packages go to the expensive houses with the expensive security systems. I agree there is a certain amount of risk in crowd sourcing this, but I can't see the "data" being super valuable.
- spyder 11y agoHow does Amazon Flex make this a bigger risk? The packages are already delivered by somebody who could do the same already.