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Shipped and sold by Amazon is meaningless. Just search for "Amazon 3rd party commingling" Basically everything with the same UPC or SKU code is put into the sam
by irrational 7y ago
Shipped and sold by Amazon is meaningless. Just search for "Amazon 3rd party commingling" Basically everything with the same UPC or SKU code is put into the same bin in the warehouses, regardless of where it came from. So legit and counterfeit inventory is stored in the same bin. When you order something it is the luck of the draw (literally) what you will get.
This is a problem for anything Amazon sells, not just books. I play board games and counterfeit board games are very very common. So much so that I wouldn't recommend anyone buy a boardgame from Amazon. Buy them from Cool Stuff Inc, Miniature Market, Cardhaus, etc. instead.
Incidentally, just this past week we allowed our Prime membership to lapse and don't plan on renewing it. With problems like this one, its just not worth it anymore.
- markus_zhang 7y agoNowadays I'm inclined more and more to purchase from local stores. At least I can investigate the merchandises before making the purchases. Plus I found out that they also have nice discounts from time to time. Re-packaging and mailing back the poor quality purchases is the major pain point here, and I'm pretty sure Amazon is losing some business because of that. Maybe the revenue from books sales is not much comparing to the others, but potential buyers buy other merchandises too.