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Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by syshum »

praptak wrote: post #279
syshum wrote: post #253

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There is not much to wonder about, Amazon does it because it critical to their fulfillment service, one of the key ways amazon makes money and keeps it 1-2 day delivery times is inventory mixing, i.e if you order from Seller X, you may actually get Stock that Seller Y shipped in. This is why they need to merge listings into 1. It is also why there is soo much fraud on Amazon, and I dont believe they will ever fix it,…

Do I understand correctly that seller X might get their reputation damaged if Seller Y shipped some counterfeit crap?

If they use the Fufilled By Amazon service, which if you want to have "Prime" shipping you have to, then yes that is possible and more common than it should

The way the service works, is that you the vendor will ship your products into a amazon warehouse, other vendors will ship the "same items" a amazon warehouse, all of these "same items" are mixed together in the inventory system, your account is has a credit of "X items" but not the specific items you shipped in to the warehouse

Example

Acme Vendor shipped to amazon 15 Logitech MX Mouses

Evil Vendor shipped Amazon 15 Counterfeit Logitech MX Mouses

When amazon gets the mouses it take all 30 and puts them in a big box, as the orders are filled even if you ordered from Acme, you make get one of the one Evil shipped into Amazon

Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by Axien »

fxtentacle wrote: post #149
gabereiser wrote: post #99

This, and other instances of this scam make me not want to buy anything off Amazon ever again. Where is Amazon in this? Why is this even a thing ? Is there no oversight at all? Amazon has now become the Alibaba of the west and it makes me sick to think the once beloved marketplace is now just scamville. I typically buy from sellers websites now and rarely buy off of Amazon but now I feel I need to completely remove A…

Actually, Alibaba appears to have higher standards for their product listings, because pages are never merged. So the review takeover described in this post would not be possible on Alibaba ^_^

Yup. I tried buying Qualatex twisting balloons from Amazon. From the reviews I could clearly see some sellers were offering legit Qualatex and others were offering cheap knock-offs. Since the reviews are not matched to the seller, I could not tell which sellers were offering the real product. I ended up buying from eBay without issue.

Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by azernik »

Animats wrote: post #157
gabereiser wrote: post #99

This, and other instances of this scam make me not want to buy anything off Amazon ever again. Where is Amazon in this? Why is this even a thing ? Is there no oversight at all? Amazon has now become the Alibaba of the west and it makes me sick to think the once beloved marketplace is now just scamville. I typically buy from sellers websites now and rarely buy off of Amazon but now I feel I need to completely remove A…

"Amazon has now become the Alibaba of the west" Alibaba is much better than Amazon about seller verification. Look up, say, "PC power supply". On Amazon, you're lucky if you get the address of the seller and a product image. Alibaba gives you multiple detailed pictures of the object, including its data plate. You get the full address of the seller, and whether it's the manufacturer or a reseller. There's usually a pi…

Notably, Alibaba's core business is B2B. Business customers have very little tolerance for bad shipments, and are frequently repeat customers such that they would quickly have left Alibaba if they could not get predictable quality.

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Post by HumblyTossed »

gabereiser wrote: post #99

This, and other instances of this scam make me not want to buy anything off Amazon ever again. Where is Amazon in this? Why is this even a thing ? Is there no oversight at all? Amazon has now become the Alibaba of the west and it makes me sick to think the once beloved marketplace is now just scamville. I typically buy from sellers websites now and rarely buy off of Amazon but now I feel I need to completely remove A…

> This, and other instances of this scam make me not want to buy anything off Amazon ever again.

Agree. Our family has nearly weened ourselves off of Amazon. We do still buy from there occasionally, but for most things we don't.

Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by rbanffy »

incompatible wrote: post #231
rbanffy wrote: post #218

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There’s a movie about it, with Cliff Stoll himself on the lead role.

There's a movie about the hacker: 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint.

That’s true. I like both movies.

Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by Axien »

eatonphil wrote: post #278
billpg wrote: post #273

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If you'll excuse me, I'm going to be looking at HTML cache add-ons for my WordPress site.

Yes you can do that or there are static site generators backed by MySQL too. So your data and configuration site can still be dynamic but your served site will be completely static. The only difference between this and adding a cache is that the cache is another piece of software in your production stack.

Can you recommend a good static site generator?

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martyvis wrote: post #240
bawana wrote: post #236

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Does anyone else see 10 vertical lines of characters that look like the ‘matrix’ font overlaid on the word ‘yog so Thoth’ in the last two lines of qwertious’ post?

It's a Unicode trick https://lingojam.com/GlitchTextGenerator

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Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by eatonphil »

Axien wrote: post #306
eatonphil wrote: post #278

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Yes you can do that or there are static site generators backed by MySQL too. So your data and configuration site can still be dynamic but your served site will be completely static. The only difference between this and adding a cache is that the cache is another piece of software in your production stack.

Can you recommend a good static site generator?

For WordPress? No. I don't use it. I just know SSGs for it exists and not enough people/companies use it (when they're using WP in the first place). :)

Vanilla SSGs are so simple I ended up writing a basic one out of a markdown and jinja parser in Python every time (for example: https://github.com/eatonphil/notes.eatonphil.com/blob/master...).

If I were not lazy I might learn one of the major ones like Hugo.

It doesn't matter what SSG you pick, they all produce the exact same kind of thing.

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Post by Scaevolus »

Animats wrote: post #157
gabereiser wrote: post #99

This, and other instances of this scam make me not want to buy anything off Amazon ever again. Where is Amazon in this? Why is this even a thing ? Is there no oversight at all? Amazon has now become the Alibaba of the west and it makes me sick to think the once beloved marketplace is now just scamville. I typically buy from sellers websites now and rarely buy off of Amazon but now I feel I need to completely remove A…

"Amazon has now become the Alibaba of the west" Alibaba is much better than Amazon about seller verification. Look up, say, "PC power supply". On Amazon, you're lucky if you get the address of the seller and a product image. Alibaba gives you multiple detailed pictures of the object, including its data plate. You get the full address of the seller, and whether it's the manufacturer or a reseller. There's usually a pi…

Alibaba & Aliexpress _do_ have a clone problem, but the notable distinction is that they don't aggressively comingle listings like Amazon does. This means for some common consumer items (fidget spinners, etc.) you'll find a hundred listings with identical images, slightly varying descriptions, and different factories, but you can easily choose which seller to buy from.

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Post by Unklejoe »

zeusk wrote: post #196
function_seven wrote: post #182

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Just bought a new radiator from Rock Auto. I think it was like 3 clicks to drill down to the part. I just tried your method and was blown away. After I entered the year and make, and was halfway into typing the model, it autocompleted all the way to my trim level and I resumed typing "radia" where it suggested all the relevant things. Hitting enter, I watched it navigate the tree on the left. Small delights like that…

McMaster-Carr is awesome, but I believe they are very business/professional oriented. I needed some brass thread-ins with bolts and they got the job done but now I'm sitting on a minimum sized order of ~50 pieces that I won't be using anytime soon. Maybe I can resell them eBay. Hah.

McMaster is great if you need some obscure bolt, but man do they stick you for it.

Want this weird thread bolt? Here's a power plant certified 2mm bolt for $75 each.

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