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It sounds like there are a million deceived customers and cheated small businesses, but no individual customer or small business can take on Amazon. How about a
by mysterypie 7y ago
It sounds like there are a million deceived customers and cheated small businesses, but no individual customer or small business can take on Amazon. How about a kickstarter or other crowdfunding plan to raise money from everyone who's suffered due to Amazon's apparent tolerance of counterfeits? I.e., if you received a counterfeit product, or if your product or book was counterfeited and sold on Amazon (like the Antimicrobial Therapy handbook)?
The kickstarter plan would be to either sue Amazon as class, or sue based on the best individual cases in all available jurisdictions, or failing all of that, to lobby the government to bring Amazon under control. Assuming it got enough funding, is there any chance that the lawsuits or lobbying would work?
- ilikepi 7y agoWell, I think lawyers in class action suits typically work on contingency, so there wouldn't be any up-front cost to suing, and they would just take a big chunk of the settlement or judgement instead as a fee. However, as is the trend nowadays, Amazon's Conditions of Use[1] include an arbitration clause, so that will probably make it rather difficult to bring a suit anyway. EDIT: clarification [1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909000 https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
- swift532 7y agoIt's such bullshit that they can do that, especially as they're so dominant.