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I think what a lot of people are missing in the comments when they say "I bought <product> from <brand> not a third party..." is that for new products the 'sell
by mNovak 6y ago
I think what a lot of people are missing in the comments when they say "I bought <product> from <brand> not a third party..." is that for new products the 'seller name' you're buying from does not correspond to which box you get off the shelf. It's called co-mingled inventory--Amazon doesn't track which box you (as seller) sent them, they just throw it on the shelf with all the other "new" same product boxes.
Obvious fraud is at least somewhat Amazon's problem since it gets returned, but the huge problem for the name-brand vendors is all the support requests / bad reviews they get when people get counterfeit crap, thinking they bought from <brand> directly.
- viggity 6y agoIIRC, if you're a seller, you have to pay extra to not have your goods co-mingled with the "same" product from other companies. It would appear that seagate didn't do that.
- bdowling 6y ago> if you're a seller, you have to pay extra to not have your goods co-mingled It would be great if Amazon passed that information on to the purchaser. It might even justify paying a higher price to buy from a non-comingled vendor because it would indicate increased accountability.
- LeoPanthera 6y agoWhile true, this does not apply in this case, "Warehouse" (=re-sold returned goods) inventory is not comingled.