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That fact that they ever did this is kinda crazy. Did they not imagine that someone would try to sell counterfeit products? Commingling means that a seller coul

That fact that they ever did this is kinda crazy. Did they not imagine that someone would try to sell counterfeit products? Commingling means that a seller could be hit by a refund and bad review for a product that was never theirs.

nucleative 9mo ago
A common complaint coming from many Amazon sellers.
g947o 9mo ago
Sounds like sellers should sue Amazon for this. I wonder why I never heard of such a lawsuit
- embedding-shape 9mo ago
  Because your livelihood depends on Amazon not kicking you off of the platform, and suing them will 100% lead to the situation where they kick you out of the platform.
- bell-cot 9mo ago
  I'd assume that Amazon's Sellers Contract includes a fair bit of "heads we win, tails you lose" language.
- Jolter 9mo ago
  Because if they take Amazon to court, they no longer have a business. Amazon effectively is a large part of American retail, which they cannot afford to not be on.
stevehawk 9mo ago
they dont care. it never stopped sales in a meaningful way and only punished the sellers. same way visa/mastercard dont care about identity fraud.. it's the seller's problem.
doctorpangloss 9mo ago
You go to the grocery store, and if it’s not Costco, your produce is co-mingled. Is that crazy?
- fn-mote 9mo ago
  There is no way your grocery store has lettuce from two different vendors and isn’t labeling the difference. You could wonder if the distributor is commingling. Milk production, probably. They’re taking responsibility for the quality of the final product, though.
  - bombcar 9mo ago
    The arugula issue a few years back revealed that whilst they’re technically labeled it wasn’t in any customer-identifiable way (serial number shenanigans). Now the location is clearly printed on each bag.
- teraflop 9mo ago
  Come on, even if that's true, it's obviously a very different situation. For one thing, the grocery store is deciding what produce to stock and what suppliers to get it from. They can choose suppliers that have at least a minimum standard of quality. They don't just let anyone on the world slap a barcode on anything at all, claim it's a grapefruit, and put it into their stores. For another, a large fraction of produce (though not all) is bought in person, and customers can see if it's obviously bad quality before buying it, unlike Amazon where all you have to go by is the product listing for the SKU.
- khuey 9mo ago
  If my grocery store held themselves out as a banana marketplace, carried boxes from a variety of different banana companies and told me to do my own research on which ones are good, sold me a box labeled Chiquita bananas that I couldn't open until I got home, and then after I purchased it, got home, and opened it, it was full of bananas from Shitty Rotten Banana Farms LLC with fake Chiquita stickers on them, that would be pretty crazy yeah.
2OEH8eoCRo0 9mo ago
Why did nobody sue? Section 230?

nucleative 9mo ago

A common complaint coming from many Amazon sellers.

g947o 9mo ago

Sounds like sellers should sue Amazon for this. I wonder why I never heard of such a lawsuit

embedding-shape 9mo ago
Because your livelihood depends on Amazon not kicking you off of the platform, and suing them will 100% lead to the situation where they kick you out of the platform.
bell-cot 9mo ago
I'd assume that Amazon's Sellers Contract includes a fair bit of "heads we win, tails you lose" language.
Jolter 9mo ago
Because if they take Amazon to court, they no longer have a business. Amazon effectively is a large part of American retail, which they cannot afford to not be on.

stevehawk 9mo ago

they dont care. it never stopped sales in a meaningful way and only punished the sellers. same way visa/mastercard dont care about identity fraud.. it's the seller's problem.

doctorpangloss 9mo ago

You go to the grocery store, and if it’s not Costco, your produce is co-mingled. Is that crazy?

fn-mote 9mo ago
There is no way your grocery store has lettuce from two different vendors and isn’t labeling the difference. You could wonder if the distributor is commingling. Milk production, probably. They’re taking responsibility for the quality of the final product, though.
- bombcar 9mo ago
  The arugula issue a few years back revealed that whilst they’re technically labeled it wasn’t in any customer-identifiable way (serial number shenanigans). Now the location is clearly printed on each bag.
teraflop 9mo ago
Come on, even if that's true, it's obviously a very different situation. For one thing, the grocery store is deciding what produce to stock and what suppliers to get it from. They can choose suppliers that have at least a minimum standard of quality. They don't just let anyone on the world slap a barcode on anything at all, claim it's a grapefruit, and put it into their stores. For another, a large fraction of produce (though not all) is bought in person, and customers can see if it's obviously bad quality before buying it, unlike Amazon where all you have to go by is the product listing for the SKU.
khuey 9mo ago
If my grocery store held themselves out as a banana marketplace, carried boxes from a variety of different banana companies and told me to do my own research on which ones are good, sold me a box labeled Chiquita bananas that I couldn't open until I got home, and then after I purchased it, got home, and opened it, it was full of bananas from Shitty Rotten Banana Farms LLC with fake Chiquita stickers on them, that would be pretty crazy yeah.

2OEH8eoCRo0 9mo ago

Why did nobody sue? Section 230?