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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by praptak on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:10AM (#27687512)
Do I understand correctly that seller X might get their reputation damaged if Seller Y shipped some counterfeit crap?
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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by syshum on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:53AM (#27687870)
If they use the Fufilled By Amazon service, which if you want to have "Prime" shipping you have to, then yes that is possible and more common than it should

The way the service works, is that you the vendor will ship your products into a amazon warehouse, other vendors will ship the "same items" a amazon warehouse, all of these "same items" are mixed together in the inventory system, your account is has a credit of "X items" but not the specific items you shipped in to the warehouse

Example

Acme Vendor shipped to amazon 15 Logitech MX Mouses

Evil Vendor shipped Amazon 15 Counterfeit Logitech MX Mouses

When amazon gets the mouses it take all 30 and puts them in a big box, as the orders are filled even if you ordered from Acme, you make get one of the one Evil shipped into Amazon

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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by alisonkisk on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:42AM (#27687752)
Yes.
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