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Re: Judge rules that Amazon isn't liable for damages caused by a hoverboard it sold

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The company I was talking about was an entirely American business.

You said the manufacturer was in SZ (so I assumed it means Shenzhen). The book is about international companies contracting with Chinese manufacturers, and talks about manufacturing in China. The resulting products are not sold in China but in the US.

Yes, the factory was in SZ, it was the US client who wanted to push down even those measly profit margins of ours and a factory

Re: Judge rules that Amazon isn't liable for damages caused by a hoverboard it sold

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If you’re a foreign company selling on Amazon, even through a shell, you should be bonded and insured or whatever the equivalent that home contractors are required to have. If an electrical contractor can burn down my home and so can your shoddy product, they should require the same minimum insurance. Edit: all companies, forget foreign.

>If an electrical contractor can burn down my home and so can your shoddy product, they should require the same minimum insurance. You think companies like Google and Amazon don't buy from the same cheapest deal manufacturers? At the very beginning of my career in 2008, I worked in a trade agency in Singapore, where I was an exchange student. Once, we came upon a client who was bragging to be the sourcing company wor…

Yes, but Google and Amazon take on the liability. Do you think general contractors don't use the same cheap uninsured contractor that you could? They do. The difference is they're taking on responsibility for problems.

Re: Judge rules that Amazon isn't liable for damages caused by a hoverboard it sold

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Except Amazon doesn’t list it. The vendor does.

...except the listings that are "Fulfilled by Amazon"...no?

Amazon doesn't add the items to their inventory. Someone who has one to sell (a VENDOR) lists the item for sale with Amazon. If it is "Fulfilled by Amazon", that just means that the vendor sent the item to one of Amazon's warehouse, and then Amazon send the item to the buyer after the sale.

If it isn't "Fulfilled by Amazon", when the item is sold, the vendor ships the item directly to the customer.

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