• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can find independent sellers on amazon, then if their product is good, you buy from them directly next time around.

    That’s not true, you may or may not get what you ordered because they have a “close enough” rule.

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      1 year ago

      Thats not a rule, but what they do have is a process that enables dickheads to ship cheap/substandard crap for an item that used to be highly rated thanks to the original seller.

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      1 year ago

      Then their product isn’t good, so you don’t buy from them next round? Doesn’t make it false.

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        1 year ago

        No, Amazon sends whatever they feel like sending, not that the small business is bad. The small business probably doesn’t even know it’s happening.

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          1 year ago

          So, if I understand it correct, when you order from a third party through Amazon, the third party never gets the order but Amazon sends something else instead? That wouldn’t be legal in Europe.

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            1 year ago

            What’s happening is to save space Amazon stores all items of the same likeness in bulk containers. The worker who fills the order just picks up one from the container. This is why buying memory cards (micro SD and so on) is such a crapshoot these days on Amazon. They aren’t necessarily shipping you what the independent seller shipped them. They’re shipping you one from a bulk container with the contents that many independent sellers shipped them.