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Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

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Re: Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

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Post by Klathmon »

sergiotapia wrote: post #3

We used to buy from Amazon since it was a stamp of quality. I tried buying a usb-c cable for my mac mini, and it was terrible. So many brands and no way of knowing what to get. Today you might as well buy from Ebay. What online store exists today, where I can be guaranteed to buy quality things? Do they no longer exist?

This is the same issue I've had with walmart.

For a long time now it's been obvious they have brands make "special versions" of many products for walmart which are lower quality and cheaper.

Now they are offering free one and 2 day delivery on their site, but I just don't want to go there for fear that I'll end up getting what looks like a "good deal" but what I'll actually get is a worse more cheaply made product.

And like you I also avoid Amazon now for many things for fear of getting knockoffs. Most electronics and chargers/cables and things like it. Between their issues with commingling inventory from multiple sellers and 3rd party sellers basically having completely broken their review system (it's exhausting having to weed out the fake reviews from the real ones every time I'm looking at a product).

Amazon is quickly becoming another site that I'll start avoiding at all costs. I've started looking for replacements for many thing I buy, and once I've switched i'm really unlikely to go back just like how I'm basically never going to go back to Walmart because they burned all my trust.

Re: Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

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Post by freeone3000 »

MentallyRetired wrote: post #4

Anyone else think this is on purpose? Now they can remove all third party sellers from their platform and cite a trust & safety risk. They've been neglecting sellers on the platform for a decade. Why else would the API be absolutely ancient? A huge change is coming.

I hope they do this, for a more consistent product experience. I actually do not trust Amazon to deliver a legitimate product now.

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Post by thechao »

itp wrote: post #14

I appreciate why the title was modified from the original, but the mistaken use of "it's" rather than "its" was introduced in the process and should be corrected.

There’s a trivial way for native English speakers to learn this rule: replace ‘it’ with ‘his’, appropriately, adjust comma to suit.

> Amazon has ceded control of hi’s site to a 3rd party...

Obviously incorrect.

Re: Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

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Post by stanski »

They were sued for the recklessly mislabeled helmet and still didn't take the posting down?

Even if they could've argued that they themselves were fooled by the seller initially, not following up after the guy was killed points to a much bigger issue. Basically they just don't give a shit.

Side note: I'm filled with dread just thinking about buying a motorcycle helmet from amazon.

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Post by late2part »

itp wrote: post #14

I appreciate why the title was modified from the original, but the mistaken use of "it's" rather than "its" was introduced in the process and should be corrected.

This is the third spelling error on HN titles in the last 72 hours. Sort of disappointing.

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Post by floren »

thechao wrote: post #23
itp wrote: post #14

I appreciate why the title was modified from the original, but the mistaken use of "it's" rather than "its" was introduced in the process and should be corrected.

There’s a trivial way for native English speakers to learn this rule: replace ‘it’ with ‘his’, appropriately, adjust comma to suit. > Amazon has ceded control of hi’s site to a 3rd party... Obviously incorrect.

> There’s a trivial way for native English speakers to learn this rule: replace ‘it’ with ‘his’, appropriately, adjust comma to suit.

I prefer the handy jingle, "If it's supposed to be possessive, it's just i-t-s, if it's supposed to be a contraction it's i-t-apostrophe-s. Scalawag."

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Post by rootusrootus »

MentallyRetired wrote: post #4

Anyone else think this is on purpose? Now they can remove all third party sellers from their platform and cite a trust & safety risk. They've been neglecting sellers on the platform for a decade. Why else would the API be absolutely ancient? A huge change is coming.

I don't expect a big change unless customers start leaving in droves. Something like half of Amazon's revenue is a direct result of the third party sellers, they won't cut that off anytime soon. They neglect those sellers and the API because there is no incentive not to.

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Post by noonespecial »

isolli wrote: post #19
athenot wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The odd thing is eBay's quality is now easier to assess than Amazon's.

How do you assess quality on eBay, e.g. for cables?

Read the seller's feedback.

Re: Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

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Post by rootusrootus »

ravenstine wrote: post #9
athenot wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The odd thing is eBay's quality is now easier to assess than Amazon's.

And eBay is often way cheaper to boot.

I have not found this to be the case for almost anything I have bought. It is almost always more expensive on eBay now.

Re: Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

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Post by martythemaniak »

I wonder if Amazon won't somehow kill itself with poor quality. I needed a bunch of LED bulbs recently and I knew exactly what I was looking for - about a dozen 40W eq, two 60w eq and two 100w eq, all in 2700K and two 100w in 3000K.

Amazon was a mess - prices were all over the place, exact products were hard to find, etc. Dollarama had them all for $2.50, $3.50 and $4.00 a piece, usually in all three flavours (2700, 3000 and 5000K).

Made me want to start a Shopify store called "Bullshit Free Bulbs". bullshitfreebulbs.com is available btw.

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