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Apparently, the problem is that for a given SKU they'll mix up (on purpose) all marketplace vendors items, for items sold by third party but delivered from Amaz

Apparently, the problem is that for a given SKU they'll mix up (on purpose) all marketplace vendors items, for items sold by third party but delivered from Amazon. Let's say you're selling Tickets to Ride on Marketplace (counterfeit products are common for board games). You send 100 copies to Amazon, now customers can buy those from you. I also sell Ticket to Ride on Marketplace! But I'm a cheap bastard so I send 100 counterfeit copies from China, with lower quality (off-centered chips, cheap prints, etc.) Instead of sending your copies to your customers, and my copies to my customers, they'll dump all of our copies all together and send a random copy to each customer. That means that any customer can receive counterfeit copies. You can't even trust a given vendor, or Amazon, because all the copies are mixed up.

saiya-jin 8y ago
That sounds like properly dumb approach to save a penny on an item - understandable with some quick grab scam scheme, but not something to do when building/maintaining long term business. I guess some manager got his yearly bonus for lowering expenses to next bottom, and who cares about the future because f*k 'ya all.
- codyb 8y ago
  I imagine a lot of the reason they mix vendirs products together has to do with logistics. If seller A sends 100 units of product X to the East Coast and seller B 100 units of product X to the West Coast it has to be immeasurably easier to lump them together (not physically but electronically) then distribute this 200 units out to all their warehouses for faster shipping. It makes a lot of sense if everyone's on the up and up. That way you ship 20 units from Vendor A to NJ to cover the NYC metropolitan region for both vendor A and B.
kevin_b_er 8y ago
They also comingle "Shipped and sold by Amazon" with 3rd party shipped by amazon goods when you buy the "shipped and sold by amazon" item. All goods where there's a 3rd party seller are at risk of receiving garbage goods, which is to say everything.
snaky 8y ago
How much Amazon sales figures dropped since they started this?

saiya-jin 8y ago

That sounds like properly dumb approach to save a penny on an item - understandable with some quick grab scam scheme, but not something to do when building/maintaining long term business. I guess some manager got his yearly bonus for lowering expenses to next bottom, and who cares about the future because f*k 'ya all.

codyb 8y ago
I imagine a lot of the reason they mix vendirs products together has to do with logistics. If seller A sends 100 units of product X to the East Coast and seller B 100 units of product X to the West Coast it has to be immeasurably easier to lump them together (not physically but electronically) then distribute this 200 units out to all their warehouses for faster shipping. It makes a lot of sense if everyone's on the up and up. That way you ship 20 units from Vendor A to NJ to cover the NYC metropolitan region for both vendor A and B.

kevin_b_er 8y ago

They also comingle "Shipped and sold by Amazon" with 3rd party shipped by amazon goods when you buy the "shipped and sold by amazon" item. All goods where there's a 3rd party seller are at risk of receiving garbage goods, which is to say everything.

snaky 8y ago

How much Amazon sales figures dropped since they started this?