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>Hopefully, Amazon will learn it or make it a problem for the vendors. The problem is, it'd be trivial for someone with a sticker printer to slam a new label o
by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
>Hopefully, Amazon will learn it or make it a problem for the vendors.
The problem is, it'd be trivial for someone with a sticker printer to slam a new label on the drive, saying 16TB. It'd be quite unrealistic to have Amazon own the tools and perform QA testing on all the millions of items on their site. You see a similar problem with knock off headphones, even plugging them in and listening to a song wouldn't be enough to find most fakes.
I think the only real solution is this to be fixed at the government level. At the moment it's too expensive and risky to go after customers, even when Amazon can determine they are running this scam. Either you get drawn into a legal battle trying to prove it, or you get labeled as evil Amazon going after the innocent little guy in the media. It's easiest for Amazon to just raise prices 1% and call it a day. Which is what Walmart does for theft/return fraud as well, and likely every company in the U.S.
There needs to be a law that makes it easy for Amazon (and other companies) to go "this account was found to have returned different merchandise 5 times, they need to pay $xxxx fine" and it to be done. But if even if one of these cases go to trial, it'd be at least a $5000 expense to Amazon.
As long as this is impossible in our legal system, these scammers will continue to thrive.
- sharkmerry 6y ago> It'd be quite unrealistic to have Amazon own the tools and perform QA testing on all the millions of items on their site. You see a similar problem with knock off headphones, even plugging them in and listening to a song wouldn't be enough to find most fakes. If amazon doesnt have capacity to verify products they are selling, they shouldnt be selling them. They are knowingly contributing to fraud and we write it off as "they're too big to regulate themselves"
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoSo should most customer returns just go to a landfill?
- LegitShady 6y agoReturns are sold in pallets to resellers who accept the risk. But amazon shouldnt be selling returns if they can't or haven't verified the item is correct and functional.
- sukilot 6y agoThe solution is don't buy expensive sensitive equipment at a flea market like Amazon.
- bestnameever 6y ago> At the moment it's too expensive and risky to go after customers, even when Amazon can determine they are running this scam. Amazon could very easily prevent future returns from these customers, preventing them from running the scam.
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoNo one goes after doorstep package thieves, why would they crack down on this?
- frgtpsswrdlame 6y agoYour solution is for a private company to be able to levy fines against people without having to prove anything in court? That seems worse than the current system.
- ApolloFortyNine 6y agoMy solution is somehow a system is put in place where when providing overwhelming evidence, a company can avoid a lawsuit that could easily cost 10s of thousands of dollars, and at the very least, five thousand (if they have to show up at all, that is very much not free). It's a hard problem to solve, that's why people talk about it so much.
- frgtpsswrdlame 6y agoWhat will evaluate whether the evidence is overwhelming or not? There's a reason we have courts.