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Amazon can be held liable for products sold on Marketplace, appeals court rules
- donor20 6y agoFantastic - this is long overdue. It's one thing to have a marketplace where consequences flow back to sellers. In amazon's case however, the sellers are always long gone (they don't even track who sold what) AND amazon provides no recourse. If I owned a mall, the sellers can still be easily pursued if they do bad things (strong paper trail beginning with the checks for credit quality for the lease). Amazon blends the inventory together (WHY??) and then good sellers get horrible reviews on their product because others ship and commingle crap fake stuff among the many many annoying things and you don't have any functioning consequences for victims of fake products - including other merchants and buyers.
- phone8675309 6y ago> Amazon blends the inventory together (WHY??) Because people don’t throw money at Amazon if they can’t because they’re out of stock. > good sellers get horrible reviews on their product because others ship and commingle crap fake stuff There are many solutions that Amazon could have pursued but that’s not something you can leave to "move fast and break things".
- sitkack 6y agoI have a counterfeit copy of Horowitz and Hill bought via Prime, I called twice and talked to folks and the response was basically, FU with have your money, not our problem.
- klyrs 6y agoSounds like the ruling only applies in California. Still, it's a start.