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The Worst Amazon Horror Story I Have Ever Heard

56 points by pzxc 12y ago

mileswu 12y ago
Previous HN discussion (~10 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751710
largote 12y ago
I think the server melted.
mcknz 12y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:voRF_fxJYJIJ:www.fbamastery.com/the-worst-amazon-horror-story-i-have-ever-heard/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:voRF_fx...
iancarroll 12y ago
Should be changed to http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-business/amazon-fba-program/ http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-b...
- coolnow 12y ago
  And have a giant ad thrown at your face first thing? No thanks, webcache is fine.
  - iancarroll 12y ago
    This is blogspam, unrelated to the site being down.
dedward 12y ago
Color me naieve here..... Some signed some kind of agreement with amazon, has tens of thousands of items in their warehouses, and is running a business where amazon is basically responsible for everything. Amazon decides to drop them. The reasoning sounds unfair, but this business is unable or unwilling to pay for lawyers, and didn't consider what would happen in the event the relationship ended and there was still stock in the warehouse? That sounds like a failure on the part of the seller to me.
- Natsu 12y ago
  Well, there's also the part where comingling may have made them out to be the seller of someone else's counterfeit product. But yeah, you can't run a real business if you can't pay for things like lawyers.
  - ars 12y ago
    According to the article there was no commingling - he just suspected there was, but there wasn't.
    - Natsu 12y ago
      Amazon claimed that, yes, but it was also called into question.
andymcsherry 12y ago
The fixed position form on the left hand side lays over the content unless your browser is really wide. Basically makes the content unreadable on mobile.
ars 12y ago
This is utterly bogus. According to the article he really did sell a counterfeit item. Presumably accidentally, and perhaps the punishment does not fit the crime, but he can't claim complete innocence here. And this demonstrates that he doesn't understand how amazon works: > When we sent out all of our items to the FBA program, they all went to 2 different Amazon warehouses. Now that I’m receiving them back, guess what? So far, the new sealed product has arrived back from 9 different warehouses. Yep, they’re sending back someone else’s new sealed items to me. NO! Amazon has a program where they internally distribute items to warehouses all over the US to increase shipping speed. It does not mean they are shipping someone else's items back to you.
- saganus 12y ago
  What about the part where he doesn't even sell new, sealed items and the offending product that caused such huge punishment, was precisely the type of items he doesn't even sell?
  - ars 12y ago
    Read it again. He didn't say that. Look I know I'm getting downmodded, but I've read these types of things before and people always spin things to their benefit, but it's usually possible to see thought it. And here it's easier than usual. Amazon clearly said: "No commingling." His response? Amazon must be in cahoots with the studio. No, there is a much simpler explanation: He messed up and sold a counterfeit item. It was clearly a mistake and he should have apologized for the error and pledged to check even better instead of claiming no error.
dang 12y ago
Url changed from http://www.fbamastery.com/the-worst-amazon-horror-story-i-have-ever-heard/ http://www.fbamastery.com/the-worst-amazon-horror-story-i-ha..., which copied this one. Post buried as duplicate. Thanks iancarroll and mileswu.
JustinBlaird 12y ago
unreadable

56 points by pzxc 12y ago

Previous HN discussion (~10 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751710

largote 12y ago

I think the server melted.

mcknz 12y ago

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:voRF_fxJYJIJ:www.fbamastery.com/the-worst-amazon-horror-story-i-have-ever-heard/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:voRF_fx...

iancarroll 12y ago

Should be changed to http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-business/amazon-fba-program/ http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-b...

coolnow 12y ago
And have a giant ad thrown at your face first thing? No thanks, webcache is fine.
- iancarroll 12y ago
  This is blogspam, unrelated to the site being down.

dedward 12y ago

Color me naieve here..... Some signed some kind of agreement with amazon, has tens of thousands of items in their warehouses, and is running a business where amazon is basically responsible for everything. Amazon decides to drop them. The reasoning sounds unfair, but this business is unable or unwilling to pay for lawyers, and didn't consider what would happen in the event the relationship ended and there was still stock in the warehouse? That sounds like a failure on the part of the seller to me.

Natsu 12y ago
Well, there's also the part where comingling may have made them out to be the seller of someone else's counterfeit product. But yeah, you can't run a real business if you can't pay for things like lawyers.
- ars 12y ago
  According to the article there was no commingling - he just suspected there was, but there wasn't.
  - Natsu 12y ago
    Amazon claimed that, yes, but it was also called into question.

andymcsherry 12y ago

The fixed position form on the left hand side lays over the content unless your browser is really wide. Basically makes the content unreadable on mobile.

ars 12y ago

This is utterly bogus. According to the article he really did sell a counterfeit item. Presumably accidentally, and perhaps the punishment does not fit the crime, but he can't claim complete innocence here. And this demonstrates that he doesn't understand how amazon works: > When we sent out all of our items to the FBA program, they all went to 2 different Amazon warehouses. Now that I’m receiving them back, guess what? So far, the new sealed product has arrived back from 9 different warehouses. Yep, they’re sending back someone else’s new sealed items to me. NO! Amazon has a program where they internally distribute items to warehouses all over the US to increase shipping speed. It does not mean they are shipping someone else's items back to you.

saganus 12y ago
What about the part where he doesn't even sell new, sealed items and the offending product that caused such huge punishment, was precisely the type of items he doesn't even sell?
- ars 12y ago
  Read it again. He didn't say that. Look I know I'm getting downmodded, but I've read these types of things before and people always spin things to their benefit, but it's usually possible to see thought it. And here it's easier than usual. Amazon clearly said: "No commingling." His response? Amazon must be in cahoots with the studio. No, there is a much simpler explanation: He messed up and sold a counterfeit item. It was clearly a mistake and he should have apologized for the error and pledged to check even better instead of claiming no error.

dang 12y ago

Url changed from http://www.fbamastery.com/the-worst-amazon-horror-story-i-have-ever-heard/ http://www.fbamastery.com/the-worst-amazon-horror-story-i-ha..., which copied this one. Post buried as duplicate. Thanks iancarroll and mileswu.

JustinBlaird 12y ago

unreadable