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Amazon can’t eliminate bribery with certainty only by paying more. The principle of bribery is someone exploiting greed in the weakest link to get something the
by siruncledrew 8y ago
Amazon can’t eliminate bribery with certainty only by paying more. The principle of bribery is someone exploiting greed in the weakest link to get something they want.
The Chinese sellers/brokers are also successfully bribing employees because they want the information more.
They have the manufacturing to produce the things to sell on Amazon, the cheap labor to write fake reviews, and the cheap distribution/shipping to make the sale economically viable while also low-price for buyers. This is a great scenario for Chinese sellers, and a huge advantage over many US sellers that don’t have those abilities (or have to go through a middle-man to work with Chinese production anyways). The stakes are much higher with the potential to have Amazon be Alibaba 2.0.
- manfredo 8y agoIncreasing wages does, however, increase the consequences of getting caught. If someone stands to lose their $12,000 annual salary if they get caught, then selling user info for a couple thousand is tempting - it increases their annual income by double digits. By comparison, I think considerably fewer people would accept such a bribe if they stood to lose a $120,000 salary. This is Singapore's logic: their government officials are some of the highest paid in the world.