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mrweasel 4 hours ago

That fact that they ever did this is kinda crazy. Did they not imagine that someone would try to sell counterfeit products? Commingling means that a seller could be hit by a refund and bad review for a product that was never theirs.

stevehawk 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

they dont care. it never stopped sales in a meaningful way and only punished the sellers. same way visa/mastercard dont care about identity fraud.. it's the seller's problem.

nucleative 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A common complaint coming from many Amazon sellers.

g947o 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sounds like sellers should sue Amazon for this. I wonder why I never heard of such a lawsuit

embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because your livelihood depends on Amazon not kicking you off of the platform, and suing them will 100% lead to the situation where they kick you out of the platform.

bell-cot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd assume that Amazon's Sellers Contract includes a fair bit of "heads we win, tails you lose" language.

2OEH8eoCRo0 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why did nobody sue? Section 230?

doctorpangloss 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You go to the grocery store, and if it’s not Costco, your produce is co-mingled. Is that crazy?

khuey an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If my grocery store held themselves out as a banana marketplace, carried boxes from a variety of different banana companies and told me to do my own research on which ones are good, sold me a box labeled Chiquita bananas that I couldn't open until I got home, and then after I purchased it, got home, and opened it, it was full of bananas from Shitty Rotten Banana Farms LLC with fake Chiquita stickers on them, that would be pretty crazy yeah.

fn-mote 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is no way your grocery store has lettuce from two different vendors and isn’t labeling the difference.

You could wonder if the distributor is commingling. Milk production, probably. They’re taking responsibility for the quality of the final product, though.

bombcar 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The arugula issue a few years back revealed that whilst they’re technically labeled it wasn’t in any customer-identifiable way (serial number shenanigans).

Now the location is clearly printed on each bag.

teraflop 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Come on, even if that's true, it's obviously a very different situation.

For one thing, the grocery store is deciding what produce to stock and what suppliers to get it from. They can choose suppliers that have at least a minimum standard of quality. They don't just let anyone on the world slap a barcode on anything at all, claim it's a grapefruit, and put it into their stores.

For another, a large fraction of produce (though not all) is bought in person, and customers can see if it's obviously bad quality before buying it, unlike Amazon where all you have to go by is the product listing for the SKU.

PKop 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Hands-on plus visual inspection of your avacado to assess quality is obviously different than knowing if your thunderbolt cable will work at all just by looking at the site so what are you even talking about?