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>There was a hacker news article a while earlier about a reseller of garage/estate sale music being put out of business because Fulfilled by Amazon doesn't nece
by ben1040 13y ago
>There was a hacker news article a while earlier about a reseller of garage/estate sale music being put out of business because Fulfilled by Amazon doesn't necessarily send the item you put in the warehouse to the customer.
If I remember right, this was the story in question:
http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-business/third-party-sellers-need-to-rethink-theamazon-fba-program/ http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-b...
Some other seller was sending shrinkwrapped "new" counterfeit versions of the same movie titles to the warehouse for fulfillment, while he was sending used copies. They were getting co-mingled in Amazon's warehouse because as far as Amazon was concerned they were just instances of the same piece of inventory.
Then some DVD distributor buys one of his items, receives a counterfeit one from Amazon's warehouse. Not only did they report this to Amazon to get the unfortunate person's seller account revoked, but they sued him as well.