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As someone with 20,000 units in FBA right now, that is horrifyingly scary.
by cm2012 13y ago
As someone with 20,000 units in FBA right now, that is horrifyingly scary.
- rurounijones 13y agoSo, what are you going to do about it? (I am asking honestly, the last time someone I know said something along these lines they just said "Oh my god, that is terrible" then promptly did nothing and just hoped for the best.)
- makomk 13y agoWhat can they do? Amazon charges a fortune to return FBA items or dispose of them...
- rurounijones 13y agoWind down stock and use a different program / partner and abandon the FBA program would be one option.
- thatthatis 13y agoSeems like the prudent thing to do is take a page from the oil industry and have a bunch of liability-shell LLCs so that even when one takes a hit, the others keep going.
- wheaties 13y agoWow, so you might be sending immaculate condition items you've labeled "good" quality while someone else might be sending junk in a can labeled "good" quality with no ability to affect what your customers see. If I were you, I'd find items that were being sold and just send shit in a box. Either you'd knock out all the competing sellers while making a small profit or someone up there would have to rethink their M.O. Seriously sounds a one way ticket on a race to the bottom of quality to me.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoWell, the article itself provides an obvious solution -- don't use the commingling program. That should be enough to stop a race to the bottom, even if there are other undesirable effects.