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Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M

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Re: Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

I wonder how much Trump really hates Bezos.

If Trump really does hate Bezos, he could go on TV and give a national address stating that Amazon has repeatedly been facilitating the illegal import of dangerous products from China. In addition, this has persisted despite repeated complaints. Therefore to protect innocent Americans, US Customs has seized all Amazon inventory at all warehouses and will be examining each item to check if it is authentic and passes the relevant safety standards.

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Post by jlengrand »

ikurei wrote: post #198
jlengrand wrote: post #192

"Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws." -> Well, not that important that you can just stop the tracking for a second for us apparently :S.

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Post by hef19898 »

ddebernardy wrote: post #191
hef19898 wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to be less of an issue in Germany. But it is bad enough that for certain products I insist on sold and shipped by Amazon. Do, my impression is that over here it is more like a marketplace problem, for now. Also, customer service for marketplace orders is just crap.

Insofar as I've understood, buying products that are sold and shipped by Amazon doesn't protect you anymore because inventories are no longer segregated.

That would be bad for all kind of reasons, I don't like that kind of lack of transparency.

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

djaychela wrote: post #194
jlengrand wrote: post #192

"Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws." -> Well, not that important that you can just stop the tracking for a second for us apparently :S.

Funnily enough, I was just thinking exactly that - and wondering just how much tracking that site does that it's not straightforward for them to stop doing it (and/or deal with data they had previously collected). Or is it just a knee-jerk reaction to GDPR that some non-EU companies have adopted and has now stuck?

Through a friend I met a solicitor working at a firm that had a temporary endeavour with an acturial/accounting firm during peak GDPR advice.

As a British firm they specialised in advising non-European firms on whether to and from where to get GDPR advice.

In essence their process was to woo client with quick turnaround, get whatever books they could, determine how much money the client was making in the EU + a super rough estimate of likely growth, and return one of roughly a dozen canned answers.

Whole thing was taking them less than half a days work per client per two person team.

The kind of company that takes advice like that isn't likely to review the policy anytime soon.

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Post by GraemeL »

djaychela wrote: post #194
jlengrand wrote: post #192

"Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws." -> Well, not that important that you can just stop the tracking for a second for us apparently :S.

Funnily enough, I was just thinking exactly that - and wondering just how much tracking that site does that it's not straightforward for them to stop doing it (and/or deal with data they had previously collected). Or is it just a knee-jerk reaction to GDPR that some non-EU companies have adopted and has now stuck?

uBlock Origin blocked 15 items on the page for me (20%) when I bypassed their geoblock. Not great, not terrible.

I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in what was filtered so it's probably just knee-jerk.

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Post by ikurei »

djaychela wrote: post #194
jlengrand wrote: post #192

"Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws." -> Well, not that important that you can just stop the tracking for a second for us apparently :S.

Funnily enough, I was just thinking exactly that - and wondering just how much tracking that site does that it's not straightforward for them to stop doing it (and/or deal with data they had previously collected). Or is it just a knee-jerk reaction to GDPR that some non-EU companies have adopted and has now stuck?

How much does it cost to implement GDPR (for a company that isn't in tech)? How much many visits from the EU does a local TV station from Providence get?

It's probably not worth it for them.

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Post by underwater »

destitude wrote: post #39

Amazon has caused this to itself in order to maximize its own short-term profits. In the past 1-3 years their goal has been to reduce their own inventory by shifting it to 3rd party sellers and let them deal with the overhead of inventory. This is why counterfeits and crappy products have been proliferating on Amazon and why I have started to avoid purchasing from Amazon all-together. I wonder if they realize how muc…

I don't know a whole lot about Amazon internals, but from what I've heard teams tend to be independent and, in a sense, in competition with one another.

It seems like this would create the classic tragedy of the commons situation we are seing where increased sales are chalked up as a win for some teams, but the whole company pays in negative sentiment.

Re: Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M

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Post by ryanmercer »

ecommerceguy wrote: post #79
dman wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am surprised Amazon has not run into Food safety issues / lawsuits by now.

As frequently as I've seen BBQ sauce in glass containers, for instance, 1 starred as shattered on delivery, I am too. To be fair, these items should not have been placed within FBA in the first place, according to "policy". Inbound employees are supposed to filter products for policy violations (specifically in this instance liquid in glass containers over 4ozs). Not the employees fault..?, they are overwhelmed. Just…

>As frequently as I've seen BBQ sauce in glass containers, for instance, 1 starred as shattered on delivery,

Last week I had a package show up with six 5lb weight plates, a book and toothpaste in the same big box.

Even if the toothpaste hadn't been crushed to the point of failing and getting everywhere, the book was completely mangled by 30 pounds of weight plates sliding around in an oversized box for God only knows how long.

I ordered some sea salt scrub earlier this year and same kinda thing, they just tossed it in an oversized box with a bunch of other stuff... by the time it got to me the lid had cracked and come off and oil/salt was all over everything.

It doesn't surprise me they do similar with food.

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