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Somehow Amazon already fixed this, even though they don’t care when it happens to other sellers.
by jtbayly 5y ago
Somehow Amazon already fixed this, even though they don’t care when it happens to other sellers.
- tyingq 5y agoIt's crazy whack-a-mole. This one appears to have been printer ink before and seems still active. https://www.amazon.com/Posture-Corrector-Comfortable-Adjustable-Straightener/dp/B093QH8WC8#customerReviews https://www.amazon.com/Posture-Corrector-Comfortable-Adjusta...
- myself248 5y agoThe fact that listings can be changed more than a certain amount, without some sort of review and cost associated with that, is a huge gift from Amazon to fraudsters. It's the platform being designed to enable fraud. Not a week goes by without our collective nose being shoved in the pile of poo that is Amazon's fraud platform wearing a cheap façade of ecommerce. And we still have trouble admitting it. When a platform is designed for making money above all else, while willfully ignorant of humanity's millennia-long history of using fraud in pursuit of money unless that option is ruled out, and takes no steps to rule it out, it is equivalent to being purpose-built for it.
- dv_dt 5y agoOne would think all the AI development happening at the major tech companies could be leveraged to fix this.
- adamcstephens 5y agoUnless the incentives for Amazon are changed, I don’t see AI making a difference.
- tweetle_beetle 5y agoYou don't need AI, just a bit of willing. I can't imagine it would be hard to create a trigger for human intervention when a product's title, images, category(?) and description all change.
- germinalphrase 5y agoMan… almost seems like they fix it if they wanted to.
- HappySweeney 5y agoThey probably cannot at scale. I'm sure they would if they could; it is very likely a source of embarrassment.