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Even if Amazon orders one of every product, it's easy to beat that system. I make two fake companies selling the same product. Each of them asks buyers to writ

• ardy42 6y ago
  > Even if Amazon orders one of every product, it's easy to beat that system. I wasn't talking about proactively ordering one of everything, but ordering something in response to a specific complaint about a specific practice. So, while we're making up numbers, they might actually end up ordering 10 copies of 0.01% of their items. Make the penalties for getting caught onerous enough, and they might deter the practice completely. Sure, some vendor might then only put a solicitation in 1 in 20 items, but they'll still have a significant chance of getting caught, and it's not like Amazon should be so transparent about the process so a vendor can game it. But to my original point: it's totally practical for Amazon to take visible action in response to a single complaint, without opening the door up to griefing. The reason for this is that they don't need to rely 100% on crowdsourced feedback for compliance enforcement (and to think they would shows a really blinkered webtech-centric viewpoint). The complaint -> investigation -> substantiation -> enforcement process is tried and true technology that's even older than UNIX.