Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads

Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by swsieber on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:10AM (#17960426)

Counterfeit problem? Stop co-mingling inventory - then you can track what inventory went to which customer and easily peg down which sources are selling counterfeits by looking at the reviews.

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by rmah on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:29PM (#17962543)

Amazon co-mingles different retailer's inventory when amazon handle fulfillment for them?!?!? Are you sure? That's insane.

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by moltar on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:45PM (#17963667)

Yup. Multiple sellers can sell the “same” item.

I put same in quotes, because it can be counterfeit or just similar. You’ll never know if you just buy the cheapest via buy now.

The only exception if it’s your own brand. Which is what many sellers are doing now. That’s why you are seeing a billion of poorly branded, cheap Chinese products.

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by secabeen on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:17PM (#17962957)

Yes, that's the root cause of many of their fulfillment issues. And it makes sense for something like a mass-market book. It makes less sense for other things.

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by russh on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:47PM (#17973749)

Yes, they do. It's one of the reasons you can buy a "new" hard drive that already has several years use on it.

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