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

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 4:58 AM UTC

unstrafed wrote: post #319

rgbrenner wrote: post #316

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If you need extrapolation, you should read the TOS. It says you cannot use prime free shipping for items intended for resale. Buying an item to incorporate it into an item for resale is still buying for resale. If you buy items for resale, you're suppose to select a different non-prime shipping method. It has nothing to do with the first sale doctrine. If you are reselling the item, then you owe Amazon shipping charg…

> If you are reselling the item, then you owe Amazon shipping charges for 2-day shipping. Not so fast. Amazon would like this to be true, which is why they put that provision in their TOS. The NFL does the same thing when they state in every single broadcast, "This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the g…

Post by ashleyw » Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 10:38 AM UTC

sgustard wrote: post #307

ashleyw wrote: post #202

I nearly bought a book in Audible last week, but hesitated because something seemed off with the reviews[0]. After a little digging I realised ALL the reviewers had only reviewed this book and another about Keto. And looking on Amazon for the same author "G.S. Hook" I noticed one of the books had reviews which while all unique, were basically all following the same template containing the same exact phrases[1]. I spo…

That's pretty bad, and ironic that reviews for a book about communication are all written in such broken English. Sadly fakespot.com rates that page an A so now I'm sceptical of that site too.

Post by PhantomGremlin » Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 2:11 PM UTC

Marsymars wrote: post #302

burlesona wrote: post #81

I’ve got the same experience as many other posters here and have been buying less from Amazon lately. One thing I haven’t seen people talking about much is how profound and impact Apple Pay is for direct online retail. I used to find products on a company website and then go to Amazon to buy, mainly so I didn’t need to create yet another account, and because of prime shipping and Amazon’s return policy. The amazing t…

> One thing I haven’t seen people talking about much is how profound and impact Apple Pay is for direct online retail. I'd love to use Apple Pay, but neither of the credit cards I use for online shopping (Capital One for CAD purchases, Home Trust for non-CAD) support it.

Post by Marsymars » Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 3:29 PM UTC

PhantomGremlin wrote: post #326

Marsymars wrote: post #302

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> One thing I haven’t seen people talking about much is how profound and impact Apple Pay is for direct online retail. I'd love to use Apple Pay, but neither of the credit cards I use for online shopping (Capital One for CAD purchases, Home Trust for non-CAD) support it.

Is there something special/different about Apple Pay for online shopping versus physical stores? My Capital One card loaded to my iPhone has worked with Apple Pay in physical stores since the inception of the feature. I use it literally every day. In the last few days I used it at McDonald's and at Whole Foods.

Post by dchichkov » Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

cardiffspaceman wrote: post #249

dchichkov wrote: post #128

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There was a recent study that also had crossed a threshold of anecdotes [1]: "The Attorney General’s Office, in partnership with the Washington State Department of Ecology, tested children’s school supplies for harmful levels of lead and cadmium in 2017 and 2018. The tests targeted products the two agencies suspected might contain toxic metals. In total, two rounds of tests identified 51 products sold on Amazon.com t…

There's a stack of transforms here: All amazon stuff -> Things that a protective agency through highly-developed intuition suspects will be dangerous -> things actually found to be dangerous. So it's bad news that they found dangerous things amongst a category of things that we don't want to be at all dangerous (children's school supplies). It's not surprising news that these agencies are pretty good at knowing in ad…