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Who trust Amazon and its marketplace on general goods nowaday? The only thing I can trust from Amazon is used foreign books.
by ezoe 7y ago
Who trust Amazon and its marketplace on general goods nowaday? The only thing I can trust from Amazon is used foreign books.
- reaperducer 7y agoWho trust Amazon and its marketplace on general goods nowaday? About 95% of the people in the world who are not on HN. Average Joe Lunchbucket assumes that the products he buys through Amazon are vetted by Amazon, like at his local store. He has no idea that the stuff he buys are from a thousand different randos.
- j88439h84 7y agoYour local store vets products?
- jfim 7y agoDepending on the size of the local store, it should be sourcing its goods through a reputable distributor or have its own supply chain that connects directly to manufacturers (eg. for Walmart and other large chain stores). It's not impossible to get counterfeits, but it's a lot more reliable than marketplace sellers with no real brand to protect.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoWal-Mart is notorious for their knowledge of the supply chain for their vendors, whether the vendor wanted to give up that information or not. On the other side of things, I've seen some pretty questionable items in dollar stores including food products that weren't labeled for the US market. The gas station near my house buys some of their products from Costco and breaks the packs into individual items, complete with "Not labeled for individual sale" warnings. Hopefully Costco is like Wal-Mart when it comes to supply chain knowledge.
- Frost1x 7y agoLarge brick and mortar stores get a bad knock because they provide cheap junk options. They also provide a lot of well researched reliable products for just a touch more. Say what you will about Walmart but they don't haphazardly choose what they throw in their stores--there's only so much physical space and they have to make chooses their local market will continue to return and buy more/other products.
- angelbar 7y ago"Not labeled for individual sale" has any legality?
- sethhochberg 7y agoGenerally thats exactly what it means - the individual products don't have nutrition info or something else which would be required for them to be sold by themselves by law.
- adolph 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
- jsight 7y agoAnd yet Wal-Mart still sells homeopathic remedies and tons of other low-quality products.
- californical 7y agoBut at least you're going to get what you bought -- Walmart may sell snake oil, but at least they don't repackage snail oil and sell it as the former
- masonic 7y agoMy local store doesn't buy its inventory from a tweaker out of the back of his 1980s van.
- numbers 7y agoMillions of people
- ck2 7y agoAmazon themselves as the seller can also no longer be trusted. They grey-market source some items and because they are so generous with returns, what you buy may not be what is in the box if it is inspected poorly (this has happened to me three times now).
- leetcrew 7y agoalcohol has a pretty distinctive scent, and is not expensive to make. I wouldn't worry too much about counterfeit hand sanitizer fulfilled by Amazon.