Looks like you have to cheat your way to get to be wealthiest person on the planet and make trips on a rocket. Sucks.

This was well-known already though the scale was not always obvious.

My thumb rule; use the "Amazon Platform" to buy third-party items at discount and where you need the safety net of returns/exchange. Never buy Amazon branded i.e. "Solimo" (are there Others?) items even though they are cheap.

There’s a list on the Amazon site: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17728530011

And a longer list here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_brands

I remember them doing something similar to Peak Design too.

Barely 7 months ago on HN as well, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26338525

Wow that is really messed up. Are there no legal protections for this?

They get it done with third-parties for everything from manufacturing to managing subsets of delivery fleets to avoid exposure.