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Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by markdown »

gerdesj wrote: post #296
samstave wrote: post #107

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There was an amazing radio piece a while back about an outfit in NYC of a guy who had a very lucrative Aamazon copy-cat service: it was run by a family of Hassidic(sp?) Jews in (brooklyn?) -- and what they did was have a bunch of them scour Amazon for top rated items - then have their connections do quick knock-off and sell them. it was a fascinating story... Ill see if I can find it. They were on the early side of t…

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I'm sorry, I'm not American, nor do I live somewhere where there is anti-jewish sentiment.

Is calling a Jew "Hassidic" derogatory?

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by liberia »

Most buyers are savvy though and buy reputable brands. Search for ‘USB flash drive’ and invariably you will get cheap Chinese muck that will break within a day. Then just filter by respectable brands like SanDisk and case closed, all the cheap stuff is filtered out!

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by gerdesj »

markdown wrote: post #311
gerdesj wrote: post #296

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I'm sorry, I'm not American, nor do I live somewhere where there is anti-jewish sentiment. Is calling a Jew "Hassidic" derogatory?

Sorry mate - it sounds like I called you out too soon.

Ideally, keep race or skin colour or religion etc out of any discussion. As a rule of thumb I try to avoid noting any difference beyond M:F and even then - advisadly.

I don't think there is any reason to note Jew or Hasidic in your post. I have no idea whether a Jew might be offended by that because I would not even get to that point - no need to pontificate about something you don't know about.

People are people, regardless of race, creed or colour.

Let us embrace similarity and not disparity: Us not Them.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by cj »

SnowHill9902 wrote: post #276
AnssiH wrote: post #263

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> There is a theoretical possibility that two of the same thing from different sellers could end up in the same bin. At that point the picker wouldn’t know which is which. Amazon's seller-side stickerless inventory documentation specifically says that identical items from different sellers are never put into same physical bin so that the original source can be traced.

Do you have any link for that?

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G200141480...

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by fuckstick »

markdown wrote: post #311
gerdesj wrote: post #296

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I'm sorry, I'm not American, nor do I live somewhere where there is anti-jewish sentiment. Is calling a Jew "Hassidic" derogatory?

No it’s not and the GP is being a overly sensitive for no good reason. It’s a relatively recent sect of Judaism with a well known insular “ultra-orthodox” (more formally Haredi Judaism) Jewish community in New York, primarily Brooklyn and Israel. This is similar to something like the Amish, and pointing out something about Amish furniture or dairy businesses doesn’t make it automatically racist.

Because they are an insular group they are known culturally in the US for their retail enterprises. B&H Photo-Video being the most famous one. Go there now (bhphotovideo.com), you can’t even order during Shabbat.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by OJFord »

system2 wrote: post #294
OJFord wrote: post #275

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> It'll fail in 3 weeks, there will be no way to get it returned or repaired, the company won't exist, and the product listing will be gone next time you come back to it. We're talking about Amazon though right? You can definitely return that, that's even inside the official return window (one month).

3 months if you are Amazon Business shopper.

In my non-Business experience, it doesn't matter, just chat to support. (I'm not suggesting taking the piss, but I've had genuine issues ranging from slightly to very out of their one month return window, and I've had full refunds or replacements without at all unreasonable exertion on my part.)

(Except one actually, very recently, it was a relatively high value Warehouse order that wasn't as described and I returned - no problems accepting/arranging that, but some tardniness on the actual refund coming through. Probably it would have been fine, but I did chase it several times before eventually getting someone willing/with the power to override whatever was making it take weeks to refund after having shown as delivered to their facility. I still think even that experience was better than I get elsewhere, and certainly on the whole it is, that was my worst ever, and it was fine in the end.)

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by gerdesj »

sgc wrote: post #307
gerdesj wrote: post #292

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Amazon isn't eBay. In theory, for us punters: we should be flogged goods by Amazon that conform to local standards. Beyond that all bets are off. eBay doesn't even bother with ... anything - it's all caveat emptor. So even in the wild west of Amazon at least there are a few standards. Sorry if you feel aggrieved but I'd rather buy stuff that had to follow a few standards that I nominally trust. By registering a trade…

You are kind of deciding Amazon's business model for them, or describing what you would like them to be. But your description doesn't fit well with their "Do you have one of these to sell?" links etc. It seems fair to say they send out mixed signals.

No, I am describing my experience.

You?

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by Raymonf »

derefr wrote: post #126
callahad wrote: post #20

The New York Times did some decent reporting into the pseudo-brands which comes closer to answering the question in the title: having a registered trademark unlocks a lot of on-platform seller tools (predictive analytics, early review program, etc.), and the easiest path to a trademark is to have an utterly unique, nonsense name. Some Chinese municipalities were also offering cash incentives for citizens who obtained…

But why are so many of these pseudo-brands exactly 1. six characters long, 2. all caps, and have 3. point-form descriptions that 4. use some particular emoji as bullet-point symbols, and 5. give each point a separate, usually-capitalized "title" part, 6. enclosed in either square brackets or the even-more-niche punctuation【 】? To me, that reads either like these all being marques of one company; or there being some C…

#6: These are full-width brackets. Most Chinese input method editors will output full-width characters by default instead of the half-width ones that you're accustomed to.

For example: ，。；：【】

If you ever see an Amazon listing have full-width characters, they're almost certainly either Chinese sellers or sellers that are really good a copying and pasting from Chinese sellers.

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