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I am curious about the advice at the end: > Torres said she encourages customers to verify the seller is legitimate before placing any orders. How? Is there s
by yoz-y 7y ago
I am curious about the advice at the end:
> Torres said she encourages customers to verify the seller is legitimate before placing any orders.
How? Is there some way to verify that a seller on amazon is legitimate among the slew of fake reviews and stock mingling in warehouses?
- joegahona 7y agoI was just asking this to myself today when browsing safety-razor blades on Amazon. (I was not able to buy them directly from the manufacturer’s website.) When I tried to start filtering by who sells it, I just got a bunch of names that meant nothing. I eventually bought them on Walmart’s site because, I guess I trust it more? Some of the comments on Amazon had the dreaded “this has changed recently,” and the last thing I want to do is scrape my face with counterfeit razor blades.
- syshum 7y ago>and stock mingling in warehouses? That is the problem if you are getting Prime Shipping Fulfilled by amazon on a bird feeder, it does not matter which seller you buy from, Amazon will ship you the one that have that is the cheapest to get to you in 2 days or less
- jcoffland 7y agoCustomers saying "this has changed recently" means little. For example, I found such reviews for a pet flea product. When I investigated further I found similar reviews both very recent and going back 4, 6 and up to 8 years. Perhaps there are random bad batches but I suspect that part of the problem is the perception that a product is different. People often fail to recognize other factors such as changes in their own usage patterns, or in this case, changes in their local flea population.
- joegahona 7y agoIt might mean little for a flea circus or bags to pick up my dog's poop, but for something I'm using on or in my body, it gives me pause.
- LegitShady 7y agothe flipside is also true - sometimes the product changes but the listing stays similar with the same URL. I buy why protein isolate and the listing on amazon changed to a blend of isolate and hydrolysate without any change in brand or product name - just a slight change in the packaging. It's possible the product did change every 2 years or so.
- smt88 7y ago> verify the seller is legitimate before placing any orders This is pointless, and Amazon knows it. Inventory co-mingling means that the product I receive might have come from anyone selling that product. If there's one counterfeiter or unethical seller shipping that SKU to Amazon's FBA service, then I'll end up blaming the seller -- not Amazon, and definitely not the original supplier of that faulty product.
- imtringued 7y agoHow do you know you have to blame the seler when you can't know that it was the seller's fault?
- smt88 7y agoI meant hypothetically. Like the typical shopper blames their seller when no one (including Amazon) knows whom to blame.
- tzs 7y agoIn this case the manufacturer is also an Amazon seller, so buying through them instead of a third party could help. As you note, due to stock mingling that doesn't ensure that you won't get a counterfeit, but it probably does at least give you better options to deal with it if you do. If you buy from Aspects, and Amazon's mingling means you get a cheap counterfeit, I'd expect you'd be able to get an exchange from Aspects. If you buy what purports to be an Aspects feeder from "Sneed's Feed and Seed" [1] and you get sent a cheap counterfeit, you might be out of luck. [1] formerly Chuck's