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Amazon’s a flea market, and flea markets operate so cheaply by neither vetting sellers, nor inspecting goods, nor taking any responsibility for sales outcomes.
by floatingatoll 5y ago
Amazon’s a flea market, and flea markets operate so cheaply by neither vetting sellers, nor inspecting goods, nor taking any responsibility for sales outcomes. Amazon will do everything in its power to avoid those duties because their retail profit model is to dodge human responsibilities such as those for labor savings.
Buying from a “fulfilled by Amazon” trusted vendor won’t necessarily help either, because Amazon also bins all products with a given UPC into a single bucket, no matter who the seller is.
- dghlsakjg 5y agoOn the upside, Amazon is normally pretty happy to accept returns. They have set the bar so high in how easy it is to return just about everything.
- floatingatoll 5y agoAmazon won’t accept returns of low-value or misdelivered items, and instructs customers to throw them into their wastebin for a refund rather than have to process them. 7 months ago, 624 comments were posted in a discussion about Amazon returns neither being painless nor simple. My favorite is this write up noting that returns are only processed if your predicted future revenue exceeds the return requested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27333273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27333273 But in general, Amazon won’t honor their purchase protection policy for high value items without extensive argument and delaying tactics, which puts shoppers at risk for precisely the purchased that most need protection.