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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by onli on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:42AM (#27254617)
That's impossible, to only buy genuine stuff there. Thanks to inventory mingling you get the fake products even for legitimate listings of genuine products.

Germany has so many other good online shops that it's for most products really easy to cut Amazon out and avoid that problem.

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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by r00fus on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:40PM (#27256390)
How is FBAs co-mingling even legal?
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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by AnssiH on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:07PM (#27256615)
It is legally not much different from just-in-time sourcing, I think.

Customer orders X from seller A, A buys X1 from seller B, then A gives X1 to customer. Meanwhile B buys X2 from A.

Sellers can of course opt out of this scheme.

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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by r00fus on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:08PM (#27268452)
It's quite different. At least with JIT sourcing, you know that a vendor has a given approved source(s) given an effective date. Everything is traceable.

With FBA, you could have gotten counterfeit goods or a return from another customer where they've sent only the box and something that weighs the same (or a broken item). Amazon throws away the receipts (it'd be a nightmare to handle so they just... don't).

Why is Amazon not on the hook for this?

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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by AnssiH on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @05:57PM (#27283262)
> Amazon throws away the receipts (it'd be a nightmare to handle so they just... don't).

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Amazon does keep track on where a given unit came from so that it is traceable to the original source, and at least in Europe invoices are issued for the inventory supplies between the sellers (these are documented at https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/gp/help/help-page.ht... - may not be public).

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