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Ok, how do you know if something is clean, safe, and resonable if it comes out of a dumpster? A kids toy could have biohazard material on it, that is disgusting
by solotronics 7y ago
Ok, how do you know if something is clean, safe, and resonable if it comes out of a dumpster? A kids toy could have biohazard material on it, that is disgusting.
- astrodust 7y agoIt could have that coming out of the factory. How would you know? Do you personally conduct inspections? Not every dumpster is filled with expired vegetables or used heroin needles. Some are just full of discarded products.
- wavefunction 7y agoPresumably the factory's reputation would suffer, their manufacturing dries up and folds. Any consequences from a one-off sale by a third party are borne by the official source and Amazon. Which is the confusing part for me: why does Amazon not care about their reputation hit from enabling fraudulent third parties?
- buckminster 7y agoThird parties have been selling junk (figuratively and literally) on Amazon for years. Yet people still buy it in vast quantities. Why would Amazon change?
- uoaei 7y ago> Do you personally conduct inspections? What a dishonest argument. Pointlessly contrarian. The whole point of having vetted suppliers is that they've been vetted, so that their output's QA is authorized by a regulatory body. Sure it's possible to sneak past that but it's very hard to do so. Dumpsters don't have QA. Amazon is performing a negligible vetting process in a race to the bottom.
- yellowapple 7y ago> Amazon is performing a negligible vetting process in a race to the bottom. I suspect this is exactly astrodust's point. Amazon ain't doing any meaningful vetting, so unless you're doing your own inspections, you have effectively zero reliable way to know whether or not your brand-new toy is going to give your child radiation sickness. Nothing dishonest about that argument at all.
- throwaway2048 7y agoThe problem with their argument is they are implying its the fault of the consumer, not amazon.
- yellowapple 7y agoThat's a rather uncharitable reading of that comment, and not at all how I read it.
- grantuna 7y agoYeah technically that is true but using the same logic you could say, "since no one is doing QA on swimming pool water I can fill my pool with used toilet water and not tell anyone."
- __jal 7y agoYep, that's about right, except that Amazon is filling your swimming pool.
- jakobegger 7y agoNo. Used toilet water is definitely dirty and unsafe. Something from a dumpster may be perfectly clean, and a lot of people take stuff from the trash, and as long as it's not been in contact with gross stuff that's not a problem. Nobody reuses toilet water.
- thedaemon 7y agoActually, here in the USA we reuse our toilet water. We have water treatments. It's a wonderful thing. https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/water_treatment.html https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/water_treat...
- solotronics 7y agoThe whole reason of buying a product from a company you "trust" is that they aren't giving you dumpster trash.
- robryan 7y agoAs long as it is sold as used it as wouldn’t be any different really to the potential contaminates that could be on anything second hand.
- sushid 7y agoEh I’d expect a used item to be sitting in some secondhand store or someone’s basement but not literally next to a pile of trash covered in cockroaches and rat poop.