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 joegahona » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 6:00 PM UTC

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…

It might mean little for a flea circus or bags to pick up my dog's poop, but for something I'm using on or in my body, it gives me pause.

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

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Post by dwild » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:22 PM UTC

hef19898 wrote: post #188

c2h5oh wrote: post #106

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If multiple suppliers ship same product to Amazon warehouses Amazon will ship closest one to buyer regardless who supplied it. In fact if the seller requests their goods back they won't get the same ones they sent to Amazon - they are mixed together with others sharing ASIN There must have been an Amazon marketplace seller using same listing but shipping fakes. Or Amazon got duped.

I still don't get how this commingled inventory happens. I know that Amazon has different inventory owners for FBA and AMZN stock. So technically they should be able to separate between different FBA owners, too. So at the very least AMZN and FBA inventory shouldn't be mixed. Only explanation I can think of is returns, issues in the return reception could add FBA returns to AMZN stock. Which should trigger some kind…

It's to save on shipping. They got quite a bit of warehouse nowadays. They just share all the same inventory, thus have to move less stock in between warehouse and you get your stuff faster. It fail when their FBA inventory is fake though, and they weirdly don't care enough about it to stop doing that. I guess the cost of refunding theses cases is less than the cost of shipping.

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