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> Long-term Short term, it would be a good idea to fine Amazon $1,000,000 a day until the problem is fixed. There's no way Bezos doesn't know how to fix this,
by TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
> Long-term
Short term, it would be a good idea to fine Amazon $1,000,000 a day until the problem is fixed.
There's no way Bezos doesn't know how to fix this, he's a smart guy.
- CamperBob2 6y ago$1MM/day is a bargain compared to what ignoring and neglecting this problem is going to cost Amazon in the long run. It's inexplicable that search/discovery and commingling of substandard/counterfeit merchandise are not both considered five-alarm fires at Amazon HQ.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoRigtheo then. Prohibit Amazon doing business until they fix the problem. You can bet the problem will be fixed overnight. My wider point is this: Bezos knows this is happen, and the only way he gets away with it is because the USA doesn't have enough consumer protection and no desire to. This has gone beyond fraud, it's abuse of customers.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoI prefer the option of financial penalties. Amazon is a useful logistical system; you don't want to kill it (nor disproportionally punish employees with no real influence on the immoral actions), just make it not profitable unless it's moral. The system should also be holding anyone in the decision tree accountable for fraud: something like "if test purchases show fraud in >1:20 cases then CEO fine := last month's income from all sources".