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> why would Amazon want to place such onerous restrictions on their suppliers? Because they have a massive counterfeiting problem, as evident by this submissio
by ckastner 6y ago
> why would Amazon want to place such onerous restrictions on their suppliers?
Because they have a massive counterfeiting problem, as evident by this submission.
To reiterate, what I suggested would only be onerous for the highest-risk suppliers.
> Amazon's success at being "the everything store" is fundamentally opposed to vetting their suppliers like this.
Certainly, Amazon is also fundamentally opposed to customers becoming victims of counterfeiters on a platform they provide them with.
- heavyset_go 6y ago> Certainly, Amazon is also fundamentally opposed to customers becoming victims of counterfeiters on a platform they provide them with. You can't even select "This item is a counterfeit/I suspect this item is a counterfeit" when filing for a return. Surely if they cared about their customers becoming victims of counterfeiters, they'd give the customers who did become victims of counterfeiters on Amazon's marketplace the ability to return and report such items accordingly. During my last return of a counterfeit item, I had to lie about the reason for the return during the return process. I had to choose between the vaguely related, but Amazon-approved, platitudes of "Wrong item was sent", "Inaccurate website description" or "Item defective or doesn't work".
- ckastner 6y agoJust to be clear, my argument was rhetorical. I fully agree that in practice, we're seeing something completely different.