Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes

Re:Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes by jabashapa on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:55PM (#15714804)

Yup. I only buy items that are “Shipped and sold by amazon.com” because I know they may mix some inventory and I’m kind of overpaying but it’s a huge quality signal when amazon themselves sells a product.

My information is also not shared with some random seller with terrible security.

Amazon also needs to ban manufactures and sellers that offer review bribes.

Using amazon.com exclusively made Amazon work for me again. I would cancel my account if it was only third party sellers.

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Re:Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes by sokoloff on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:59PM (#15714863)

I think it's more of a sell-through volume signal than a quality signal myself.

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Re:Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes by jabashapa on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:02PM (#15714887)

It means a lot of metrics are good including return rates and reviews. I also filter by 4 stars and look for 50+ legit looking reviews always. Also check the distribution of the review scores.

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Re:Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes by AVTizzle on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:15PM (#15715584)

"My information is also not shared with some random seller with terrible security."

Take some comfort in knowing that no customer data is shared with third-party sellers.

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Re:Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes by gridscomputing on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:39PM (#15716903)

name, mailing address, product(s) purchased -- all shared with third party FBA sellers. Sounds like customer data to me.

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