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Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

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Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

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Post by vorpalhex »

So he had $1.5m in merchandise that was totally authentic, sent it all to Amazon and yet couldn't reclaim it? And he has no insurance on literally a million and a half of clothing?

How did he go from holding $1.5M of merch for over a year to being homeless and having to couch surf?

So, I had this $2M bridge up in Wisconsin, but Elon Musk took it out with a cybertruck one night after a few too many mimosas and...

Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

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Post by Johnny555 »

vorpalhex wrote: post #3

So he had $1.5m in merchandise that was totally authentic, sent it all to Amazon and yet couldn't reclaim it? And he has no insurance on literally a million and a half of clothing? How did he go from holding $1.5M of merch for over a year to being homeless and having to couch surf? So, I had this $2M bridge up in Wisconsin, but Elon Musk took it out with a cybertruck one night after a few too many mimosas and...

Is there any insurance that would pay for merchandise that Amazon destroyed because they determined that it's fake? Why would the insurance company take his side when they could just side with Amazon and save $1.5M?

He can produce invoices that show he bought $1.5M of legit merchandise, but how can he prove that what he sent to Amazon was not fake?

Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

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Post by Johnny555 »

numpad0 wrote: post #4

Another Marketplace seller blamed for commingled fakes case?

If his story is true, it doesn't even sound like Amazon had any evidence that his merchandise was fake. One person didn't like the fit and suggested that it could be fake, another complained about a damaged box and again thought that meant it was fake, and the other two didn't like the way it was packed.

For all we know, the complaints were from a competitor that knew exactly what would happen.

Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

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Post by hevelvarik »

This is a case for the courts. The article is completely one sided, and there’s no way to know whether or not some or much or most of the merchandise was counterfeit.

He does admit to ignoring up to 11 notices that his inventory would be destroyed if left unclaimed. He mentions conflicting dates for the notices but we’ve no way of knowing to make of that.

I don’t know what to say other that I read the piece with some interest and for all know it’s a work of fiction, but heh I clicked.

Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

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Post by ethanwillis » 

  The merchants must navigate a largely automated, 
  guilty-until-proven-innocent process in which Amazon 
  serves as judge and jury. Their emails and calls can go 
  unanswered, or Amazon's replies are incomprehensible, 
  making sellers suspect they're at the mercy of 
  algorithms with little human oversight.
This is something our modern society was and is not ready for. Bureaucracy and the bureaucrats that administered it is a nightmare that society has known about and dealt with for a long time. But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront.. we're now effectively at the mercy of a dice roll in the worst case. And no one can even confirm if the dice are even fair dice. In the best case you get to deal with a robot that can't even understand what you're saying.
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