Re:Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA...
by donatj on Sunday August 16, 2020 @03:24AM
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That’s not entirely true. Some sellers keep their stock in amazons warehouse but others, I believe most, drop ship their items themselves.
Like 12 years ago I used to build stock/cart systems for said drop shippers.
Re:Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA...
by lozaning on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:30AM
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Anymore if you're not FBA you'll never get the buy box.
Re:Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA...
by manigandham on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:10AM
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No, you buy direct from Amazon or from 3rd-party sellers. These sellers can store and ship by themselves, or pay to have it stored and shipped by Amazon (this is called FBA - Fulfilled by Amazon) because it's faster and qualifies immediately for Prime which customers want.
You can tell the difference when you buy, it's just not blatantly obviously unless the main Amazon listing is out of stock and you click on the "other sellers" link yourself. Go to your orders page and every product will tell you the "sold by" name.
I'm getting a widget that was pulled out of a co-mingled inventory box at some Amazon warehouse.
Amazon owns the entire shopping experience, end-to-end. They run the website. They design the website. They handle payments. They advertise the items ("Customers who bought Foo also bought Bar"). They handle shipping. They handle refunds. They handle warehousing.
But they don't seem to want to own the responsibility. I'm assuming that's because it's not the profitable part of this equation.