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I do wish Amazon would vet the stuff they permit sale of on their site though. I get the impulse, but there's a reason that Amazon offers its A-to-Z guarantee
by saidajigumi 11y ago
I do wish Amazon would vet the stuff they permit sale of on their site though.
I get the impulse, but there's a reason that Amazon offers its A-to-Z guarantee rather than an a priori vetting process. Because the latter is literally impossible.
How does the vetting even occur? Do we have armies of "compu-physical engineers", imaginary polymaths capable of analyzing any imaginable physical and/or software product for characteristics that should be rejected? If we had such mental deities at our disposal, why would we waste their time vetting gummi penguins for a retail outlet?!?
Given that we won't have a magical vetting army, it'll be exactly like the TSA: enormous costs incurred to vet that the overwhelming majority of stuff is just fine, a bunch of horrible side-effects from false positives, and bad stuff will still slip through whenever someone wants it to.
- sohcahtoa 11y agoI'm sure this is an argument that can be applied for/against patent examiners, I'm just not sure how.
- seanp2k2 11y agoFor maximum irony, if you ever do find a way, patent it and license it to the government.
- teacup50 11y agoI think the 'vetting' is in buying products that are sourced through Amazon's supply chain, rather than vetting third-party sellers. Unfortunately, there's not a "hide 3rd-party sellers" preference toggle.
- cherioo 11y agoIt is possible to filter seller to Amazon.com only after you specify "Department", which is what I do most of the time. Maybe someone can write a greasemonkey script to apply it automatically.
- rahimnathwani 11y agoThe last time I tried this, it did not hide third party offers from showing (or being the default) when you click through to the product detail page. So you might filter in this way, and still buy a product from a third party seller.