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FTA: > The Appellate Court didn’t agree with Amazon’s stance, noting that the product had been listed on Amazon, was stored in an Amazon warehouse, had facilit

FTA: > The Appellate Court didn’t agree with Amazon’s stance, noting that the product had been listed on Amazon, was stored in an Amazon warehouse, had facilitated payment, and shipped it out in Amazon packaging, proving it to have a hand in getting it to Bolger and thus being liable under California law.

vmception 6y ago
The solution being to make FBA marketers buy stakes in the warehouse until a bunch of dropshipping bloggers own them all.
- ashtonkem 6y ago
  Or amazon just makes it more clear when you’re buying from a non-Amazon party that uses FBA.
  - thoughtstheseus 6y ago
    Physical stores should do this too. Gets rid of the liability for what you sell.
    - ashtonkem 6y ago
      Physical stores don’t really have anything analogous to what’s going on here with Amazon. No random small business can sign up and get their products shelf space in Target or WalMart next to what Target buys and resells. Literally everything physically in a Target is something they bought, warehoused, and are reselling themselves.
    - Hokusai 6y ago
      > Physical stores should do this too. Gets rid of the liability for what you sell. That is the only way to compete with Amazon. It is a race-to-the-bottom of quality and safety for the consumers. Amazon takes what are common rules with their customers and their retailers and has broken all of them. Amazon competes directly with its retailers using the information that got from them. Amazon brands 3rd party retailers products as if server-by-Amazon but it takes no responsibility on delivery or quality. Or Amazon is forced into compliance or we are going to go back to the middle-ages experience where everything is a flea market and weights and measures are never correct.
    - smsm42 6y ago
      I'm pretty sure if I went to Target and was told "this toaster was made by NoName Super-Quality Manufacturing in China and if you have any problem you'd have to take it with them, whoever and whereever they are, and we accept no responsibility for anything but processing the payment" I'd not buy it.

vmception 6y ago

The solution being to make FBA marketers buy stakes in the warehouse until a bunch of dropshipping bloggers own them all.

ashtonkem 6y ago
Or amazon just makes it more clear when you’re buying from a non-Amazon party that uses FBA.
- thoughtstheseus 6y ago
  Physical stores should do this too. Gets rid of the liability for what you sell.
  - ashtonkem 6y ago
    Physical stores don’t really have anything analogous to what’s going on here with Amazon. No random small business can sign up and get their products shelf space in Target or WalMart next to what Target buys and resells. Literally everything physically in a Target is something they bought, warehoused, and are reselling themselves.
  - Hokusai 6y ago
    > Physical stores should do this too. Gets rid of the liability for what you sell. That is the only way to compete with Amazon. It is a race-to-the-bottom of quality and safety for the consumers. Amazon takes what are common rules with their customers and their retailers and has broken all of them. Amazon competes directly with its retailers using the information that got from them. Amazon brands 3rd party retailers products as if server-by-Amazon but it takes no responsibility on delivery or quality. Or Amazon is forced into compliance or we are going to go back to the middle-ages experience where everything is a flea market and weights and measures are never correct.
  - smsm42 6y ago
    I'm pretty sure if I went to Target and was told "this toaster was made by NoName Super-Quality Manufacturing in China and if you have any problem you'd have to take it with them, whoever and whereever they are, and we accept no responsibility for anything but processing the payment" I'd not buy it.