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> First of all, how can a belt contain drugs? I suppose there are some Amazon sellers who have specific items that (contrary to the public listing) actually co
by schoen 6y ago
> First of all, how can a belt contain drugs?
I suppose there are some Amazon sellers who have specific items that (contrary to the public listing) actually contain drugs. In that case, people could order them as a way of buying drugs that would look like some other kind of retail business from the point of view of Amazon, shippers, and tax agencies. The seller could try to make the listed product extremely unappealing or uninteresting to the general public, or have some kind of code or out-of-band contact method that people could use to indicate that they wanted and expected specific orders to contain the drugs instead of the listed item.
Also
https://xkcd.com/325/ https://xkcd.com/325/
Also, it looks like the "people lying in order to harm, steal from, or extort others" issue hasn't been solved for any side of a two-sided market or review system. :-(
Edit: I was first thinking of saying that this is a way that drug prohibition really empowers random people to hurt each other with false accusations. But this is probably true for any kind of high-stakes accusation. As long as there's any kind of contraband or dangerous item that Amazon cares quite a bit about banning from its site, and as long as there's a significant market in that item, people could make spurious accusations that any seller was secretly trading in it.
- vidarh 6y agoFulfilled by Amazon drug delivery sounds like a "fun" experiment for some drug lord to try...
- soco 6y agoFunFilled deliveries!
- foobiekr 6y agoAmazon was facilitating selling objects that literally had radioactive thorium dust in them and it took action by the NRC to clean them up; Amazon continues to sell products of this sort that have been listed since.
- a_t48 6y agoDo you have a source on this? Tried Googling, couldn't find anything.