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

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Post by capitainenemo »

CliffStoll wrote: post #116

Guess I'd better say a few things. First, I deeply appreciate that so many on Hacker News have come out for this. Enough to awaken me from a sound sleep on a Tuesday evening! I don't really care that much about selling Klein bottles over Amazon - it's mainly to reach parents over the holidays. But I do wish that Amazon would do something about this kind of thing. Finally, I"m very low on stocks of glass Klein bottles…

Much love, I've read your site through, often times out loud to family and coworkers. GL w/ Amazon. Minor nitpick. The link to go back to top of page at the bottom of https://kleinbottle.com/ links to index.htm and not index.html and is thus a 404. I guess you could just link it to / or ideally change to and link to to avoid a new page load.

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

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Post by neom »

chrisjc wrote: post #313
neom wrote: post #284

I had no clue what a Klein Bottle is, this video was very very very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfhiVaJj9UY

I had no idea who Cliff was, as well as what a Klein Bottle was, but after watching this video I could watch him all day. I'd love to watch more short videos with him explaining things!

Quite the character!!! If we had more people as wonderfully excited about life as this guy, the world would be a considerably better place. What a cool dude.

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

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Post by WesleyHale »

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…

> Is there no oversight at all?

What do you expect from a company who has an automated system to fire employees, and they're notified if the discharge through an app on their phone?

There main objective is volume.

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

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

bawana wrote: post #236
Qwertious wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't buy this guy's klein bottles, they're a scam - they're only THREE dimensional! Such a rip off. How am I supposed to store a ŷ̶̺̎͌͐̿̽̊́̕ŏ̶̗̈́̓̍̎̃͠g̶̝̺̜̜͋̿̚ͅ-̷̧̛̈́̔́s̷̰̀͌́̈́ơ̷̝̭̫͛́͘ẗ̴̹̱̖̥́h̸̡̡͙̻̀o̸̹̘̾̀͗̇̕t̵̗̠̄̽̈́͑ḧ̵̳̰̩̲͈̜͉̝́́͌͐ in this thing?

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?

What post?

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

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Post by bombcar »

praptak wrote: post #184
fxtentacle wrote: post #149

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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 ^_^

Which makes you wonder why Amazon keeps this scam-enabling "feature". Do legit sellers really need it that much that Amazon keeps it despite the scams?

The idea behind it was a good one - if you’re selling a book about cats, and you update the book to fix some typos (easy to do with Kindle for example) you don’t want to lose all your reviews.

And then they added a feature where if multiple marketplace vendors are selling the same thing it combines them.

And a third feature lets you classify items as various colors of a product (but the same product - think blue vs pink socks) and all the reviews get combined.

So if you do all three in the right order you can change anything to anything now, even taking another listing.

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Post by bombcar »

webmobdev wrote: post #252
praptak wrote: post #184

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Which makes you wonder why Amazon keeps this scam-enabling "feature". Do legit sellers really need it that much that Amazon keeps it despite the scams?

Amazon tacitly supports this scam because it only cares about sales. It doesn't really care about the sellers. It also knows that positive reviews have a huge influence in increasing sales, and negative reviews really dampens sales. This is why Amazon also allows what I call Product Page Hijacking . How this works is, Amazon allows multiple models or variants of a product to be listed on the same page, so that all th…

The router issue is even more insidious as the vendors may not even know which version they have as the manufacturer considers them all identical even though they can be entirely different.

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Post by bombcar »

birdman3131 wrote: post #317
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,…

This is only if you enable comingled inventory. I don't believe it is required but I barely sell on amazon.

I think there’s a discount if you allow commingled inventory (or a cost to keep it separate) which makes sense as Amazon has to track and potentially stock it in multiple warehouses

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Post by scrooched_moose »

noneeeed wrote: post #170
moepstar wrote: post #12

They're still in denial that they have a problem. Just read the thread on the previous occasion where listings got hijacked on their own fora [0] - its sad to see the sellers so powerless, helpless and just left to themselves. You really have to wonder why they even bother... Edit: also, reading that thread you can also get a feel why big brands have completely left AMZN as a platform (like Adidas, Birkenstock are a…

I no longer buy anything important from Amazon, this especially goes for anything that plugs into the mains, I just don't trust Amazon any more. Amazon is now just for those low value items that I might need in a bit of a rush. This is especially true now that more and more retailers have caught up with Amazon's shipping (at least here in the UK). They seem to want it both ways. They have simultaneously tried to argu…

Same. Anything that plugs in, has batteries, or goes in my family's mouths is a no go for me now.

I'm pretty much down to a few books, video games, and obscure fasteners/hardware/tools (which annoyingly they're just about the only good source for).

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

gerdesj wrote: post #275
technothrasher wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

A small dog has just materialised and widdled on my foot. Please be careful when summoning the Old Ones.

The Puppy of Tindalos! Ia!

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

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Post by adolph »

MR4D wrote: post #318
cartoonworld wrote: post #270

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There was also a television adaptation, "The KGB, the Computer, and Me" produced by PBS Nova in like 1992, starring Clifford Stoll as Cliff Stoll! Here is a bootlegged youtube link--it's the best I've got. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164 A legend!

That you are linking to a bootleg copy of video on this thread is...ironic, to say the least.

Well, it is unavailable on Amazon...

https://www.amazon.com/KGB-Computer-Me-VHS/dp/B00004Y50L

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B000JLM0RQ/ref=atv_dp...

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