You should label this as being from almost a year ago. And also that it has since been debunked. This article was later on found to be wrong about their assump

You should label this as being from almost a year ago. And also that it has since been debunked. This article was later on found to be wrong about their assumptions. Follow-up articles found that the people did actually purchase items, but because shipments from China took up to 8 months due to the Covid lockdowns, they'd generally forgotten about them. This was true for all of the people in this investigation. It doesn't help that for example, people who had ordered seeds for exotic plants got stuck in a completely different scam. What actually was happening was the seller promises some exotic plant seed, but instead sends standard / cheaper vegetable seeds. Six months later, the person thinks "I didn't order these broccoli seeds! Why would I order broccoli from China?" and then the media's imagination runs wild with stories of Amazon scrubbing. If you want to test this, order any exotic seed from wish.com. You are pretty much guaranteed to get various types of flax, broccoli, and radish seeds months down the road. You will not get those otherwise rare and expensive (and sometimes impossible) seeds you thought you would be getting. You can tell by looking at some of the purchaser's posted pictures what the seeds are and aren't. You'll be hard pressed to find a correct match. And you'll see a lot of the same 3 types of seed sold as completely different things. That's what was actually happening in the article. Scrubbing probably happened at some point, but the mystery items in this article were not that. They were crap items drop shipped through wish.com, sometimes via Amazon sellers.