Re:Amazon Is Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods:...
by jstarfish on Saturday June 16, 2018 @10:13PM
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Amazon does have competition though.
Ebay Stores have been around forever, and Walmart and others have now also entered the third-party marketplace game.
But you can buy the same questionable goods they all peddle by buying directly from Alibaba and saving yourself the reseller markup. Shipping just takes longer.
Regardless, would a business want to sell on Amazon if they were treated second?
> The fact that you even have to be that careful is a bad customer experience.
This we can agree on, ideally Amazon would go through some evaluation process to determine that a seller is legitimate. Instead as far as I know they just let user reviews decide.
Side note though, Amazon really needs some competition. I can't recall the last time I bought anything online (that needed to be shipped) that wasn't through Amazon. For example, I used to buy computer parts from sites like Newegg, but unless there's a particularly good deal I'm probably going to Amazon. Clothing? Amazon. I don't want to have Levis and Hanes shipped separately.
Amazon is the Walmart of online retailers.