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Except for comingling of SKUs. If a supplier ships knock-off producrs to a particular product code it all gets mixed in the warehouse and you get product roulet
by dbcurtis 9y ago
Except for comingling of SKUs. If a supplier ships knock-off producrs to a particular product code it all gets mixed in the warehouse and you get product roulette.
- jacquesm 9y agoThey don't prefix with the vendor? So they mix the stock of all their suppliers? That's pretty unbelievably sloppy, is there some public proof of this?
- dbcurtis 9y agoProof? Amazon terms of service for vendors is a hood place to start.
- hobofan 9y agoI doubt that is true, and I haven't seen any proof of it either. What I can tell you though, is that Amazon is incredibly lenient on enforcing EANs. So even though there is that identifier that should be able to uniquely identify a product, often times third-party replacements for the product, or even completely unrelated items are listed under the EAN, and Amazon doesn't give a shit.
- tombrossman 9y agoThis has been widely reported, is ongoing for years, and is the source of frequent complaints from both users and manufacturers. Here are a few examples, starting with Amazon's own website explaining commingling: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200294150 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeI... https://cblr.columbia.edu/amazons-war-on-counterfeits/ https://cblr.columbia.edu/amazons-war-on-counterfeits/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-opens-door-to-knockoffs-1399852852?tesla=y https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-op...
- jacquesm 9y agoThank you for digging that up. Amazon should really not do this, it opens them up to all kinds of scams and has the potential to harm their brand in ways that will not be easy to repair.