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If multiple suppliers ship same product to Amazon warehouses Amazon will ship closest one to buyer regardless who supplied it. In fact if the seller requests th
by c2h5oh 7y ago
If multiple suppliers ship same product to Amazon warehouses Amazon will ship closest one to buyer regardless who supplied it. In fact if the seller requests their goods back they won't get the same ones they sent to Amazon - they are mixed together with others sharing ASIN
There must have been an Amazon marketplace seller using same listing but shipping fakes. Or Amazon got duped.
- ng12 7y agoWhat bothers me most is the fake was incredibly lazy. It came in a plain white box with the brand I ordered stamped on one corner. The product inside looked completely different and was from a "brand" that I can't find sold on any legitimate site. I suspect it didn't even include a functioning battery, I couldn't get it to hold a charge for more than a few seconds. If Amazon got "duped" by this they could have gotten duped just as easily by a guy selling a box of old newspapers. I don't understand how it's not fraud to label it as "Sold by Amazon" when they don't have the slightest idea what they're shipping to me.
- bitcoinmoney 7y agoPlease tell us the product name so we are aware.
- fredophile 7y agoThe product name won't help. This could happen with almost any item Amazon sells because of how they commingle inventory.
- akvadrako 7y agoThis is very common. For example I was recently shopping for a popular brand of silverware and it was crystal clear from reviews that lots of people were getting fakes - some terrible, some subtle, like rusting after a couple washes.
- mrtksn 7y agoSo if you are selling the absolute lowest-quality stuff, you may increase the quality of your inventory by simply giving it to amazon and request them back? Now I sympathize with Amazon, knowing how shady some merchants could be. If it's true that they do not track products by suppliers, this could be a scalable fraud. Send in absolute garbage and take it back/buy it to enrich your metarial.
- Jolter 7y agoWhat are you going to do with your "enriched" inventory? Sit on it?
- maccard 7y agoSell it on eBay as a merchant, or in a physical store.?
- imtringued 7y agoYou can sell it on Amazon because they don't care if you send them counterfeits or stolen goods.
- mrtksn 7y agoBut you will have competition, instead, you might be able to sell it somewhere with quality standards - like a real shop - and have ticker margins given that you bought your inventory for dirt cheap and revitalized it in Amazon.
- maccard 7y agoIn that case you wouldn't bother trying to get "real" inventory back, you'd just send them the inventory and be done with it.
- hef19898 7y agoI still don't get how this commingled inventory happens. I know that Amazon has different inventory owners for FBA and AMZN stock. So technically they should be able to separate between different FBA owners, too. So at the very least AMZN and FBA inventory shouldn't be mixed. Only explanation I can think of is returns, issues in the return reception could add FBA returns to AMZN stock. Which should trigger some kind of investigation. I don't like the fact that this stuff keeps happening as it points yo bad processes and, IMHO, some WMS issues as well.
- dwild 7y agoIt's to save on shipping. They got quite a bit of warehouse nowadays. They just share all the same inventory, thus have to move less stock in between warehouse and you get your stuff faster. It fail when their FBA inventory is fake though, and they weirdly don't care enough about it to stop doing that. I guess the cost of refunding theses cases is less than the cost of shipping.