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I have no idea how Amazon keeps getting away with selling counterfeit and plain unsafe (anything cheap chinese plugged into a socket) products. No judge would
by revelation 10y ago
I have no idea how Amazon keeps getting away with selling counterfeit and plain unsafe (anything cheap chinese plugged into a socket) products.
No judge would accept that somehow a 3rd party is to blame when 1) I'm paying Amazon, 2) Amazon delivers the item from an Amazon warehouse and 3) Amazon takes the return and reimburses me. At no point in this transaction is a 3rd party involved. Clearly they should be liable here for the junk they sell.
- jmcgough 10y agoThe 3rd party is whoever sells amazon the inventory, which may not even be the company that produced the product. There's a lot of opportunities for counterfeits to get introduced into the pool of real products, and there's a lot of incentive to do so, since profit margins are much higher.
- herojc 10y agoWell inventory Amazon retail imports can be commingled with 3rd party inventory. So just because you bought from Amazon doesn't necessarily mean that it was inbounded by Amazon. It's not an excuse for Amazon, but commingling is a double edged sword and the bad part of it is an extremely difficult problem to solve, yet the benefits are too strong for them to consider turning it off.
- revelation 10y agoI understand how it works. I don't see why this would extend any legal benefits to Amazon in disclaiming responsibility for the faulty and dangerous products they sell and deliver. Commingle all you want, if you are taking the money & shipping the product, you're legally responsible in ensuring that it is up to code. Any physical retail shop would have been closed already, why is the government not doing its job?