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Re:Ask HN: Buying farm machinery from Alibaba on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:02AM (#18855520)
I used to sell stuff on Amazon and used Flexport as my freight forwarder. You definitely do NOT want to be driving to the port and trying to pick stuff up. Between the logistics and the paperwork, you'll want to just pay someone to do it for you. Start out by contacting them.
Re:Amazon Strategy Teardown on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:08PM (#14169821)
It's much easier (maybe too easy) for anyone to sell on Amazon compared to Walmart.com. This allows Amazon to alway have a huge selection with a bunch of sellers competing to offer the lower price. This is going to let Amazon stay in front until the other companies catch up but it might be too late by then.
This is actually a different scam that's been going on recently. These "just launched" sellers show up for about 1/10th the actual price and when you buy from them they just won't ever send anything. Their strategy is to delay as long as possible and hope Amazon gives them their first payment before they finally get shut down.

I sell on Amazon via FBA and the counterfeiting and scamming is unbelievable. I'm glad to see these stories come out to raise some awareness because Amazon has done nothing to fix the problem.