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Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M

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Post by ryanmercer »

ngorge wrote: post #114
tomcam wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not trying to be snarky, genuinely interested: what are the advantages of the superior movement?

The gears are manufactured to better tolerances. This means they make a lot less noise. A cheap movement can be heard across the room, a Seiko is silent. Because the parts fit better, there is less friction. Less of a load on the motor means the battery lasts much longer in a Seiko. They also keep time better.

>This means they make a lot less noise. A cheap movement can be heard across the room,

I laughed out loud as I can hear my alarm clock ticking 8ft away thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk quite loudly. You can actually hear it from the living room if the TV is off, perhaps I should look into something made a bit better.

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Post by dd36 »

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…

Cold medicine as art?

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Post by ryanmercer »

smabie wrote: post #121
erichurkman wrote: post #99

Their quality control, or lack thereof, also extends into Prime Now. It is now a game when I get a Prime Now delivery: what did they replace without telling me, what products did they get wrong, and most critically: what did they overbill me for? It's now to a point I weigh everything coming in, and over half of the items are off weight, some egregiously so (0.2 oz of jalapeno, but billed for 1 pound; .5 pound of chi…

Why are you buying food on Amazon? It’s kind of weird.

Agreed.

The site is always trying to get me to buy groceries and I'm like "no thanks, I like to see what I'm buying". When I buy potatoes weekly I might look at 10 bags before I find one that doesn't look like crap, spinach/kale/greens I look at the best buy dates because they need to last me a week until the next visit, peppers I don't want to see a single wrinkle on because I want them to be good for more than a day or two, if some green onions are already wilting I don't want them, bananas I want a bunch that is all green and a bunch that the bananas still have a decent amount of green so that I have bananas for the entire week. The bread I care about the date and the smell because sometimes bags fail at a seam or get cut and a good date can mean bread that is already starting to mold.

If I still ate meat regularly, it'd be the same sort of thing there. You can tell a lot by looking at a piece of chicken or red meat.

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Post by fhars »

hef19898 wrote: post #185
privateSFacct wrote: post #134

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This also makes me laugh out loud. If Amazon gave two craps about some of this stuff it would be cut WAY back. For a few years at least every Apple branded product on amazon I bought was 100% fake - lazy fakes too. I ended up having to buy from Apple directly to get something legit. You are telling me brands haven't complained about this? I find that totally hard to believe. The crap amazon sells is going to bring th…

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.

It may be related to the german legal concept of „Mitstörerhaftung“ which basically means that anyone who is contributing to a rights violation (like selling counterfeit goods) is liable for this. This can be a bit absurd (a shipping company transporting a sealed container which contains counterfeit goods they know nothing of is liable to at least stop doing so), but it may keep amazon on it‘s toes.

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Post by imtringued »

maccard wrote: post #196
Jolter wrote: post #172

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What are you going to do with your "enriched" inventory? Sit on it?

Sell it on eBay as a merchant, or in a physical store.?

You can sell it on Amazon because they don't care if you send them counterfeits or stolen goods.

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Post by [deleted] »

muzika wrote: post #144
rladd wrote: post #73

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I have a $12 Ikea clock that looks rather like a Swiss train clock (not exactly of course) and which keeps nearly perfect time and runs for over a year on one battery. It is miles better than the $5 Ikea clock, but I see no reason to pay more since the $12 one looks good and runs perfectly well.

One year on a battery is nothing to be proud of :)

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Post by imtringued »

smt88 wrote: post #86
yoz-y wrote: post #53

I am curious about the advice at the end: > Torres said she encourages customers to verify the seller is legitimate before placing any orders. How? Is there some way to verify that a seller on amazon is legitimate among the slew of fake reviews and stock mingling in warehouses?

> verify the seller is legitimate before placing any orders This is pointless, and Amazon knows it. Inventory co-mingling means that the product I receive might have come from anyone selling that product . If there's one counterfeiter or unethical seller shipping that SKU to Amazon's FBA service, then I'll end up blaming the seller -- not Amazon, and definitely not the original supplier of that faulty product.

How do you know you have to blame the seler when you can't know that it was the seller's fault?

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Post by LegitShady »

jcoffland wrote: post #94
joegahona wrote: post #82

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I was just asking this to myself today when browsing safety-razor blades on Amazon. (I was not able to buy them directly from the manufacturer’s website.) When I tried to start filtering by who sells it, I just got a bunch of names that meant nothing. I eventually bought them on Walmart’s site because, I guess I trust it more? Some of the comments on Amazon had the dreaded “this has changed recently,” and the last th…

Customers saying "this has changed recently" means little. For example, I found such reviews for a pet flea product. When I investigated further I found similar reviews both very recent and going back 4, 6 and up to 8 years. Perhaps there are random bad batches but I suspect that part of the problem is the perception that a product is different. People often fail to recognize other factors such as changes in their ow…

the flipside is also true - sometimes the product changes but the listing stays similar with the same URL. I buy why protein isolate and the listing on amazon changed to a blend of isolate and hydrolysate without any change in brand or product name - just a slight change in the packaging.

It's possible the product did change every 2 years or so.

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Post by LegitShady »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #201

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 i…

can we not make everything about trump and fantasizing about him going on tv/twitter etc to bash a specific company for a specific problem?

Doesn't seem realistic or useful.

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Post by LegitShady »

perl4ever wrote: post #148
RandomTisk wrote: post #118

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I got my folks a bird feeder a few years ago when they bought a new house. I grew up a few miles from there, remembering only sparrows, blackbirds, robins, etc and on rare occasions a yellow bird, or a brown bird, or red-wing blackbird. But with a bird feeder, it was amazing to see the number of unique birds that show up now every few minutes, birds of all colors that I didn't even know lived in the area.

I was in a home improvement store and noticed that a sparrow had found its way to the aisle with the bird seed.

why does a home improvement store have bird seed/
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