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> I have seen many complaints that in many cases, the original manufacturer's Amazon Fulfillment stocks are intermixed with the counterfeits. The people working
by CharlesColeman 8y ago
> I have seen many complaints that in many cases, the original manufacturer's Amazon Fulfillment stocks are intermixed with the counterfeits. The people working knock-off policing are going to be running around the same space as the item runners.
They won't be if Amazon stops commingling stock from different sources.
Dumping everything into a big pile, then expecting pickers (or some other kind of hurried low-level worker) to sort out the fake/counterfeit items is probably the most impractical and inefficient way possible of addressing this problem.
Amazon's problem is on the "input" side, so they should solve it there.
> Why not start a competing online marketplace, with better policing of knock-offs?
Someone could totally do that, but I was talking about fixing the problem at Amazon. No marketplace should be offering fakes and knockoffs, so competition isn't going to be a panacea.
- stcredzero 8y agoAmazon's problem is on the "input" side, so they should solve it there. No disagreement. I think there will be come corporate inertial to overcome, however. No marketplace should be offering fakes and knockoffs, so competition isn't going to be a panacea. Given that people are already going to alternatives because of this precise issue, it's quite likely the market will mount a specific response, if it hasn't already. The market isn't a panacea. Panaceas don't exist. However, sometimes the market can respond in a good or at least adequate way.