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Amazon Japan ordered to pay 35M. yen for allowing listing of fakes

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133 points resonious | 5 comments | 26 Apr 25 04:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.729s | source
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openplatypus ◴[26 Apr 25 07:03 UTC] No.43801514[source]▶
I wish this was more common.

I rarely, like once every 6 months, look for some obscure thing on Amazon. First thing I do after finding products, I research which one of the listing has any chance of not being a fake/dud/scam.

I can't imagine buying anything of value on Amazon.

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wombat-man ◴[26 Apr 25 07:07 UTC] No.43801531[source]▶
Yeah Amazon is my last stop these days.
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mrweasel ◴[26 Apr 25 09:13 UTC] No.43802057[source]▶
Well, I'd probably shop at Amazon before Temu, but yeah, Amazon is the option of last resort. I do wonder how common that sentiment is, probably not very, even if it seems like at least the people around me never really use Amazon anymore.

It varieres from region to region obviously, but here there's no point in ordering from Amazon. Everyone else is cheaper, have faster shipping and don't have a ridicules number of scamming sellers with fake, defective and dangerous products. It seems like Amazon should be failing, but I don't think they are.

The Amazon store really have become an absolute shitshow.

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1. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[26 Apr 25 09:18 UTC] No.43802079[source]▶
I don’t buy anything over $50, on Amazon. Been burned by fakes and gray-market stuff (sold as legit brand).

Amazon definitely explicitly supports this.

What I do, is go directly to the product Web site (not the Amazon page for the manufacturer), and order from there. Sometimes, the fulfillment is via Amazon, but I know I’m getting the real thing. The difference in price is often smaller than you might think. Amazon prices aren’t that good, anymore.

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2. amanaplanacanal ◴[26 Apr 25 14:11 UTC] No.43803785[source]▶
If the fulfillment is by Amazon, how do you know what you are getting? I thought Amazon commingled all their stock in one bin no matter where it came from.
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3. mrgoldenbrown ◴[26 Apr 25 14:23 UTC] No.43803889[source]▶
If the fulfilment is by Amazon, how do you know you aren't getting a fake? Is there a way to see if a seller is using commingled inventory or not?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20499808

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4. mrgoldenbrown ◴[26 Apr 25 14:25 UTC] No.43803902[source]▶
Vendors using FBA have some control over whether commingling happens but I don't know if consumers have any way to know the current status of whether its commingled or not.
5. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[26 Apr 25 15:40 UTC] No.43804548[source]▶
I would think that it would only take one or two incidents, to destroy that whole business model.

Vendors can be flexible, if the malfeasance is under the Amazon imprimatur, but it's a completely different story, if they act as fulfillment for a separate company, and substitute fake stuff.