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The solution starts with manually verifying products. I'm not convinced that it's impossible for Amazon or other stores to have a quality verification system wh
by warent 7y ago
The solution starts with manually verifying products. I'm not convinced that it's impossible for Amazon or other stores to have a quality verification system where they have people hired specifically for this purpose. Maybe even a third party could specifically do this. You don't have to do it for every single item, just do it once whenever someone wants to list a product on the platform. Whenever reviews start complain about bogus products, investigate, and if they changed the product from the last time you verified it, remove them from the platform for a period of time.
- teblaskan 7y agosome hunch tells me this would put them out of business
- mkl 7y agoWhy do you think that? I think they would just pass the slightly increased cost on to vendors and/or customers.
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- didibus 7y agoThat's currently what they do I'm pretty sure. It seems they'd need something more, because sellers appear to be too ingenious.
- didibus 7y agoThis isn't the best source, but the claims are there: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/product-safety-and-compliance-in-our-store https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/product-safety-and... Only difference from what OP suggested is it doesn't seem they manually look at all initial listing. Apart from that it seems they claim having exactly the described system by OP in place.
- shurth 7y agoI work for a company that produces ingestible goods. Having worked for Amazon previously, I knew select brands were allowed to be “gated”, that is, only be sold by authorized resellers. Imagine my surprise when Amazon repeatedly denied us the ability to gate our brand. As a consumer, I’d like to know that an ingestible good comes from a reputable source - more so than a Coach purse. The whole experience really shot Bezos’ “customer centricity” principle in the rear for me. Amazon could greatly improve its counterfeit issue by giving manufacturers more control over their brand. That, to me, is the root of the issue.