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The doctrine of first sale means people can re-sell your products. It does not mean you have a right to do so on Amazon .
Or more to the point, you cannot claim they are being sold directly from the manufacturer.
They could say "we'll only let Apple sell Apple products here".
Amazon has a big counterfeit problem. The reviews are entirely gamed, so can’t trust those any more , even the 2-star or 3-star ones. So I recently dropped Amazon prime and ended up buying popular name brands. Even those you can get price matched with other retailers and Target even gives you 5% percent discount and BestBuy gives you points. Unless you are a person who is not mobile, there are several options now.
Enjoy price matching while you can. Nobody price matches craigslist for example and as Amazon trustworthiness dives towards craiglist levels one wonders if said policies will continue.
Best Buy and Target will price match eBay prices if sold by the product maker's ebay account.
You'd have to be insane to buy anything you'd put in your body from Amazon. Just this week I received an obviously used item that was "Shipped and sold by amazon.com" and sold as "new". I realize they're trying, but Amazon is clearly failing to control the tide of fakes that is infesting their storefront. I find that for almost anything I search for, the knockoff/fake is actually the Amazon "recommended" item.
I bought a new mp3 player from Fry's once which, oddly enough, turned out to be stocked with a sizeable music library already.
I'd still be pretty comfortable buying a candy bar from them though.
Amazon needs to stop with inventory comingling. They know it and refuse to stop, so they are culpable. I'm sure it would hurt their logistics to stop, but it also hurts cigarette companies to not advertise to children and we made that a law. It is ridiculous that you can order a supplement where it says "sold by Proctor and Gamble, fulfilled by Amazon" on the product listing, and then receive a counterfeit product th…
Also, allow product manufacturers who sell directly, to block other sellers on the platform for their products and handle reports for alike-named and-or brand confusing products.
Amazon does very little to actually do anything meaningful to limit counterfeit products.
For some foolish reason I had notifications turned on for the Amazon app... it recently offered me a deal on some sort of supplements that seemed kinda strange / made some weird claims. I had never even searched for any kind of supplement or even food / drug items before. Other offers were for what looked like seriously questionable quality things, that were semi related to items that I had searched, but looked like…
LockPickingLawyer (Youtube) has a series of videos on the poor quality of "Amazon Choice" for various locks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gflpf0DrCgw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ1_P5oqf6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdJti43IgU (Branded Amazon Basics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-bndzHmMfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtTneV8SaB0
While I don't doubt are selling well.... really suck, and I fear the difference is simply sales volume of purchasers who don't know ... due to a couple bucks difference from another product... or straight up sponsorship.
Amazon needs to stop with inventory comingling. They know it and refuse to stop, so they are culpable. I'm sure it would hurt their logistics to stop, but it also hurts cigarette companies to not advertise to children and we made that a law. It is ridiculous that you can order a supplement where it says "sold by Proctor and Gamble, fulfilled by Amazon" on the product listing, and then receive a counterfeit product th…
Or at least require a deposit for sellers of a non-insignificant amount, a hold on new seller payouts for up to 30-60 days and per-seller stickers on intake inventory so sellers of counterfeits can be rooted out better. Also, allow product manufacturers who sell directly, to block other sellers on the platform for their products and handle reports for alike-named and-or brand confusing products. Amazon does very litt…
They do have a program for this, I believe: https://brandservices.amazon.com/
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Amazon is busy shooting itself in the foot. The problem is, the gun is small and the foot is huge, so they probably don't feel it right now. Supplements (or really anything I put in my mouth) is one of a growing set of classes of items I won't buy on Amazon anymore. That probably doesn't result in much loss for Amazon right now, but what it does do is: 1. Makes me trust Amazon MUCH less, which means I'm much more lik…
Normally I'd just upvote and continue on my way but with the expectation that maybe someone from Amazon is reading and thinking "surely not everyone feels that way". We all feel this way. Inventory co-mingling will have major long term costs. If you think about it, it is pretty crazy how big of a reputation hit Amazon has taken in the last few years.
Even the Basics brand is just about worthless as far as anything technology/electrical as the quality is usually lower than the value on the price.
The irony is I'm finding the Prime Video selection more valuable than the shipping/buying experience lately.
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"Supplements (or really anything I put in my mouth) is one of a growing set of classes of items I won't buy on Amazon anymore." How would you know that the vendors you are buying these items from aren't themselves buying from Amazon or other counterfeit vendors? Honest question, because I'd really love for there to be some way for consumers to verify the authenticity of what they're buying, but as far as I know there…
I often buy from Target or Costco.com, which have no 3rd party sellers that I'm aware of. Because of this, I assume that they are vetting their vendors and supply chain to minimize the reputation damage that counterfeits would cause. I also use Walmart.com, but I filter out anything sold by 3rd parties to make sure I'm buying something from Walmart's vetted supply chain. If shipping charges aren't prohibitive, I'll a…
Aside: I'm also disappointed in Newegg at whatever point they started allowing third parties. Worse still is a number of the third parties list the same products as different items/codes so search is a pain sometimes until you select newegg as the seller.