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Dirty diaper resold on Amazon ruined a family business, report says(arstechnica.com)

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Amazon’s returns process is a complete dumpster fire - they’ll slap a “new” sticker on your used crap and put it right back up for sale. Case in point: a small biz got screwed when Amazon resold their poopy swim diaper as brand new, tanking their company. Thankfully, Amazon took immediate action (JK). At least sellers now at least have the option to opt-out of returns being sold as new.

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I think you misunderstand. This is a business that uses the “fulfilled by Amazon” program, which means they never even saw the return. Amazon received the return, processed it, deemed it worthy of resale as a new item, and shipped it back out without them being involved at all. But they’re the ones that ended up with the black eye from it.

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The seller sends an item to the Amazon warehouse to be sold, Amazon fulfillment sends it to the buyer. Buyer returns it, and it goes back to the amazon warehouse and back into the store’s digital inventory. It gets sold again and amazon fulfillment sends it out.

You can run a store without using Amazon but it may be hard to compete. Amazon has identical products in warehouses all over the world so even if it’s not the specific item the seller sent to Amazon fulfillment, the customer can get same day delivery. This system also creates an intractible counterfeit problem.

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Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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Yup, never ever buy computer parts on Amazon. Just don’t even think about it.

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coolteathatisgreen@lemm.ee
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Yo what the fuck man ?

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brbposting@sh.itjust.worksOP
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🍵 profits

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conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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Because others marked the review as helpful, Amazon increased its visibility on the product page, just as the Barons “were executing a plan to triple their annual sales to $3 million in 2020”

The fact that any returned diaper is resold is fucked. “Amazon should have inspected it” isn’t good enough and whoever is in charge of the policy for returns of a diaper to ever be resold can screw off.

If it’s Amazon, and Amazon is responsible for that diaper being shipped back out, that review should definitely be removed.

But regardless, “we were just about to triple our sales” is best case complete nonsense, and worst case nonsense stacked with scalping essential goods during a pandemic.

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PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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To be fair, if the package is still unopened then a return can totally be resold.

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RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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Used - Like New

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JackbyDev@programming.dev
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Even this headline makes it sound like the family’s fault lmao.

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PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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Yeah the article takes its time making it clear who is at fault as well

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