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This is how the seller can do it, atleast on Amazon India. Swapping the details completely triggers AI based flags and often causes the change to be manually r
by tangoalpha 6y ago
This is how the seller can do it, atleast on Amazon India.
Swapping the details completely triggers AI based flags and often causes the change to be manually reviewed.
But the seller can add a variant of the product (like size or color). But the seller instead adds a completely different product he intends to swap the original product with. Now the listing will show two completely different products as variants on a single product listing. Then the seller removes the old variant. Nothing gets flagged. No manual review.
This has been around for long and a very popular trick with shady sellers on Amazon in India. I don't think Amazon never figured it out. For whatever reason, Amazon turns a blind eye to this practice.
- Bedon292 6y agoI was just seeing something like this the other day on US Amazon. I was looking at 'nano tape' to stick some stuff in place. And came across the top reviewed one, with 11k reviews [1] but all of the reviews are for a guitar wall mount. I was very confused as to how they achieved it. [1] Example: https://smile.amazon.com/Double-Sided-Tape-Walls-Decoration/dp/B08KXVN3F9/ https://smile.amazon.com/Double-Sided-Tape-Walls-Decoration/...
- kevincox 6y agoThis is a huge problem. Or a single "product page" with "variants" that are completely different products. I just outright refuse to buy from these sellers but it is clearly a successful model.
- PoignardAzur 6y agoThis feels like the kind of tricks Amazon should actively be defending against, with red teams trying to come up with angles of attacks, people looking for forums discussing possible approaches to game the system, etc.