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by ikeboy 7y ago
I've been presented with several offers over the last year to renew my car's warranty as it's expiring soon. I don't own a car nor have a driver's license. I usually get through to a person then ask them which of my
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Google working on biz messaging app that unifies Gmail/Hangouts Chat/Meet, more(9to5google.com)
18 points by ikeboy 7y ago|11 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
The daily mail was loaded in the forensic test, likely as an ad in some other page.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
A high return rate doesn't mean it's counterfeit. If there's strong evidence of counterfeit Amazon will refund buyers proactively.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Yes. See https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200141480 "For inventory tracked with the manufacturer barcode, each seller’s sourced inventory of the same ASIN is stored separately in our ful
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Lawsuits. William Sonoma and Mercedes Benz have both sued Amazon claiming they sold counterfeit. Popsockets recently told Congress that Amazon had sold counterfeits (although as I commented in the recent HN thread on that (see https:/
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Amazon sees the review and knows which seller to punish. Reviews shouldn't be used for describing problems with the seller, anyway. Use seller feedback for that.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Right now they require ID when opening new accounts. My understanding (based on talking to sellers) is that it became significantly more difficult to open new accounts when this policy went into effect. Sophisticated criminals willing to fa
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by ikeboy 7y ago
The chances of receiving a counterfeit in general are very low. And there are some who've accused Amazon of selling counterfeits directly, so the odds there aren't 0. The relative reduction is probably large, but if it's some
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by ikeboy 7y ago
That's a way to allow people to pay more for a slightly lower chance of receiving counterfeit products. It's not a way to reduce counterfeit overall. As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread https://news.ycombinator.co
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Getting rid of the entire marketplace, which is more than half their sales, just to stop a relatively small counterfeiting issue seems overkill to me, but you're entitled to your opinion.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
What policy do you believe would prevent new sellers from selling counterfeits while still allowing legitimate sellers? My understanding is that Amazon basically does everything they can short of inspecting every unit, which is infeasible.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Sometimes. It depends on the level of proof they have. I've heard from a seller who was banned after a distributor sold them counterfeit goods and Amazon gave customers refunds to the tune of over 50k.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
The article is about reporting counterfeiters to law enforcement after they've been permanently banned.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Amazon currently requires ID for signup. Any bank that allows online signup would have the same issues. They do take significant measures to block repeat offenders, but bad actors are sophisticated. I've heard, for example, that if a n
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by ikeboy 7y ago
As I've pointed out numerous times previously, commingling doesn't significantly add to the counterfeit problem. Amazon internally tracks which product was sold by which seller, so if a customer leaves a bad review or complains ab
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by ikeboy 7y ago
If that's the case just use Google alerts.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
See the Supreme Court decision in Impression Prods., Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc. It absolutely does apply to patents. It applies to copyright, patent, and trademarks, the three major areas of IP rights. There are some subtleties with e
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Just wanted to clarify a bit of the legal terminology here. There's a loophole/exception to the first sale doctrine that says if the products are materially different, it can be considered trademark infringement even if the produc
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by ikeboy 7y ago
These are products that popsockets manufactured, sold to distributors, which then made their way to Amazon. It's not a copy, it's the real thing, just sold at a price popsockets doesn't like. Per https://www.vox.co
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Usually some sort of price discrimination. Let's say Brand X pays $5 to produce something and sells it wholesale for $15 to stores, for a retail price of $30. Assume Amazon fees selling at $30 are $10, so Brand X can sell on Amazon at
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Popsockets is one of the biggest bullies in the marketplace. They've sued many, many sellers that were selling legitimate products trying to bully them off the market with various loopholes in the first sale doctrine. https:/&#x2
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Note that I'm not the one who posted the parent comment. Anyway, the Milton Friedman talk linked explicitly mentions the same beta-blockers example as my link discusses and cites it as causing tens of thousands of deaths. He says it&#x
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by ikeboy 7y ago
https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-example... It turns out we can directly compare pre-1962 FDA with the current FDA and find strong harms outweighing any benefit of the current regime. If all the FDA
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by ikeboy 7y ago
There's another area that's unregulated - off-label uses. See https://www.fdareview.org/issues/theory-evidence-and-example... for a discussion of the evidence from off-label uses of approved drugs.
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Amazon to Ramp Up Counterfeit Reporting to Law Enforcement(nytimes.com)
1 points by ikeboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Just load a hidden image from a subdomain, silently fails if on an unaffected platform.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>Real wages already have productivity and inflation factored in What source are you using that adjusts for productivity when reporting real wages? Real is defined as inflation adjusted only. >Assuming you use the example rich demograp
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Now you're changing your claim. You're not talking about real wage increases, you're talking about an increase that's bigger than the productivity increase. Even that doesn't necessarily increase inflation 1:1. Your
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by ikeboy 7y ago
This is inflation adjusted, which means it accounts for all that.

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