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Re:Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Fa... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:19PM (#19457440)
First: You can buy straight from Amazon even if you don't have Prime.

Second: Using their store makes you their customer. If I go into a store and buy a product, giving them my credit card number to purchase merchandise they advertised, that store can't claim that I'm not really their customer, that they're just a distribution platform for the manufacturer, and that they're not responsible for the counterfeit they just sold me.

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Re:Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Fa... by jhall1468 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:49PM (#19457716)
First: I was responding to someone who was using an explicit example of not buying straight from Amazon.

Second: The courts strongly disagree with you. You are drawing a thin line between marketplace and vendor. As far as the courts are concerned, they are not the same thing, and you absolutely do not have the exact same protections you would in purchasing directly.

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