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I like your analysis, but I find the pledge problematic. Vendors work against each other and would consider frauds like hiring people to buy a real product and
by yayana 8y ago
I like your analysis, but I find the pledge problematic. Vendors work against each other and would consider frauds like hiring people to buy a real product and return a fake.
- eslaught 8y agoI see your point, but isn't that a problem for any enforcement scheme? Unless Amazon is going to invest the energy of their own employees into determining what is fake and what isn't, the best you can do is rely on the signal you get from customers when they return items (legitimately or not).
- paulddraper 8y ago> invest the energy of their own employees into determining what is fake and what isn't That is how most stores operate.
- eslaught 8y agoMost stores don't sell products for third parties. And no third party sellers means a drastically reduced inventory. I don't like the fakes any more than the next person, but I think the problems are genuinely more difficult than the various armchair experts on HN seem to give credit for.
- paulddraper 8y agoMost stores do sell products for third parties, marking up the a price and passing it onto the customer. That is in fact the entire business of most stores.
- DenisM 8y agoYou can take signal from customers and then manually investigate suspect batches, before dishing out the fine.