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Unless they changed how inventory commingling works, you might even get a counterfeit item when ordering an item that's sold and fulfilled by Amazon. That could
by almog 4y ago
Unless they changed how inventory commingling works, you might even get a counterfeit item when ordering an item that's sold and fulfilled by Amazon.
That could happen because they consider (or at least considered) items with identical catalog id to be identical, so if for for a given item id, its "Sold by Amazon" inventory is empty while the FBA (sold by 3rd party, Fulfilled by Amazon) is not, they might "lend" one from the merchant until restocking their own inventory.
- subroutine 4y agoThis is bad, and it gets worse. They allow products under their identifier system (GS1?) to change entirely. One day it could be a key chain with 100 4-star reviews, the next day the same page is selling a piece of junk smoke alarm, a week later a USB cable or an iphone case. And the case has 4 color options... red, blue, selfie stick, and large.
- tedunangst 4y agoIf I order the key chain, will Amazon fulfill the order by mailing me a smoke alarm?
- yftsui 4y agoYou are saying a merchant could send in fake garbage items for an expensive listing, then buy it out himself so Amazon will give out authentic items that belong to a different merchant’s inventory? That sounds too good to be true.
- almog 4y agoI'm assuming that: 1. There's some non-thorough verification of the items rather than completely trusting the merchants. 2. Merchants could sanctioned if caught sending counterfeit items. 3. You don't get to choose how Amazon stocks its fulfillment centers. 4. Assuming that part of the suggested con is to set the counterfeit items price to a fraction of the Sold by Amazon, I'd guess that Amazon would probably be more careful with grouping vastly differently priced items together regarding of their ID. Again, these are all just assumptions but with that in mind, I would guess it won't be an easy thing to pull off.