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Re:Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA... by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:08AM (#24176120)
Rigtheo then.

Prohibit Amazon doing business until they fix the problem.

You can bet the problem will be fixed overnight.

My wider point is this: Bezos knows this is happen, and the only way he gets away with it is because the USA doesn't have enough consumer protection and no desire to.

This has gone beyond fraud, it's abuse of customers.

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Re:Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday August 16, 2020 @07:16AM (#24176873)
I prefer the option of financial penalties. Amazon is a useful logistical system; you don't want to kill it (nor disproportionally punish employees with no real influence on the immoral actions), just make it not profitable unless it's moral.

The system should also be holding anyone in the decision tree accountable for fraud: something like "if test purchases show fraud in >1:20 cases then CEO fine := last month's income from all sources".

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