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> The Better Business Bureau (BBB) told CBC that it sounded like a vendor-return scheme that's common in the US but rarer in Canada, where foreign sellers dodge

> The Better Business Bureau (BBB) told CBC that it sounded like a vendor-return scheme that's common in the US but rarer in Canada, where foreign sellers dodge fees associated with storing and shipping return items by sending the items anywhere but their own addresses. So someone is dropshipping products from China. Because they are not fulfilled by Amazon, they would have to pay return shipping to... probably nowhere useful in China. So the seller says "screw it!" and just tells customers to ship their crappy returns to an address they pull out of a hat. Am I understanding the scam correctly? Would it not be pretty easy to at least figure out the seller responsible?

cyanydeez 3y ago
Knowing Amazon, they probably queried the address and it came up to a bunch of sellers who equate to some product owners annual bonus and are probably a single entity gaming the system by having multiple accounts with fake brands.
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lolinder 3y ago
That's how I understood it, but then at the end she said this, which makes it sound like someone hacked her Amazon account and turned it into a seller account: > Nitu says the deliveries were tied to her dormant Amazon account. > "I don't know what Amazon is allowing them to do because they got a hold of my name, my address and my old phone number," she said.
nulltype 3y ago
A similar thing actually happened to me. I was receiving a small package (probably a phone case) about once every few weeks while living in a rental house. The seller had put my address as their address, so all undeliverable mail came to my house. I brought a bag full of these packages to the post office, explained the situation and gave them the packages. The entire pile of packages ended up back at my house a few days later. I found the seller on Amazon and messaged them: ——— Me: I haven't ordered anything from you. I have received 6 packages that you sent but ended up at my house because the return address that you used is my address, not your address. Could you use a different return address? Seller: Dear nulltype, We're sorry about this, we can't change the address at the moment because of the cumbersome policies on Amazon, but we'll change it when we have a new production facility. Please forgive us. You are free to use the packages. Sincerely, ———- The packages continued to arrive after this.

cyanydeez 3y ago

Knowing Amazon, they probably queried the address and it came up to a bunch of sellers who equate to some product owners annual bonus and are probably a single entity gaming the system by having multiple accounts with fake brands.

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lolinder 3y ago

That's how I understood it, but then at the end she said this, which makes it sound like someone hacked her Amazon account and turned it into a seller account: > Nitu says the deliveries were tied to her dormant Amazon account. > "I don't know what Amazon is allowing them to do because they got a hold of my name, my address and my old phone number," she said.

nulltype 3y ago

A similar thing actually happened to me. I was receiving a small package (probably a phone case) about once every few weeks while living in a rental house. The seller had put my address as their address, so all undeliverable mail came to my house. I brought a bag full of these packages to the post office, explained the situation and gave them the packages. The entire pile of packages ended up back at my house a few days later. I found the seller on Amazon and messaged them: ——— Me: I haven't ordered anything from you. I have received 6 packages that you sent but ended up at my house because the return address that you used is my address, not your address. Could you use a different return address? Seller: Dear nulltype, We're sorry about this, we can't change the address at the moment because of the cumbersome policies on Amazon, but we'll change it when we have a new production facility. Please forgive us. You are free to use the packages. Sincerely, ———- The packages continued to arrive after this.