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Eh? I run into FBA all the time on .ca. It is rarer than on .com, I agree there, but barely exists seems inaccurate. What does annoy, are all the reshippers

Eh? I run into FBA all the time on .ca. It is rarer than on .com, I agree there, but barely exists seems inaccurate. What does annoy, are all the reshippers which charge sometimes even 10x more for a product. 4x the price is typical. All they do is list a product on .ca, from .com, and wait for an order. Then they buy from .com, receive amd reship. Amazon just seems so shady. Sneaky. As if their entire platform is geared to allow others to deceive.

bbarnett 6y ago
An example of something I checked, before ordering from .com: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZZ3W2H8/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZZ3W2H8/ versus: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07ZZ3W2H8/ https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07ZZ3W2H8/ I've occasionally seen such listings at 10x, but commonly 2x-3x is common (as with this listing, after exchange). You also lose all 'shipped by Amazon' protections, and if the listing at .ca was FBA, you'd have free shipping in .ca. (As a note for .com / US users, Prime membership on .ca does not give any discount when shipping to Canada from .com, as Prime membership is restricted to the .XX property which you buy it on. EG, .ca in my case. Nor does buying a .com prime membership help, for that only gives speed/discounts/free shipping for US addresses. When I travel to the US for the winter, I basically have to axe my .ca prime membership, and buy a .com membership. So as a result, I don't buy yearly memberships. And when I travel to/from, I cancel .ca early, and .com early, upon return. It's not like I order a lot of stuff 3 days before leaving, or while traveling, or the second I arrive. A result of all this is that Amazon loses out on sometimes 4 months of Prime membership, which they would have if it just worked everywhere.
bleepblorp 6y ago
It's shady to put it mildly. It's not that much of a stretch to say that the entire business model for sales and gig economy platforms is to provide investors with a legal revenue stream from dubiously legal activities ranging from civil fraud to regulatory arbitrage intended to evade tax law, consumer protection law, employee protection law, and minimum wage law. It's long past time for a crackdown.

bbarnett 6y ago

An example of something I checked, before ordering from .com: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZZ3W2H8/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZZ3W2H8/ versus: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07ZZ3W2H8/ https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07ZZ3W2H8/ I've occasionally seen such listings at 10x, but commonly 2x-3x is common (as with this listing, after exchange). You also lose all 'shipped by Amazon' protections, and if the listing at .ca was FBA, you'd have free shipping in .ca. (As a note for .com / US users, Prime membership on .ca does not give any discount when shipping to Canada from .com, as Prime membership is restricted to the .XX property which you buy it on. EG, .ca in my case. Nor does buying a .com prime membership help, for that only gives speed/discounts/free shipping for US addresses. When I travel to the US for the winter, I basically have to axe my .ca prime membership, and buy a .com membership. So as a result, I don't buy yearly memberships. And when I travel to/from, I cancel .ca early, and .com early, upon return. It's not like I order a lot of stuff 3 days before leaving, or while traveling, or the second I arrive. A result of all this is that Amazon loses out on sometimes 4 months of Prime membership, which they would have if it just worked everywhere.

bleepblorp 6y ago

It's shady to put it mildly. It's not that much of a stretch to say that the entire business model for sales and gig economy platforms is to provide investors with a legal revenue stream from dubiously legal activities ranging from civil fraud to regulatory arbitrage intended to evade tax law, consumer protection law, employee protection law, and minimum wage law. It's long past time for a crackdown.