amazon was always the wild west. since 2009 when I started to use amazon heavily I remember having to always police myself to never buy from items without the "sold by amazon" note.
it has nothing to do with evil foreigners or going down to alibaba level. amazom was always the alibaba of the US.
since 2009 when I started to use amazon heavily I remember having to always police myself to never buy from items without the "sold by amazon" note.
What you've missed is that ever since Amazon added "fulfilled by Amazon" what "sold by Amazon" means is only "pulled from stock in an Amazon warehouse, with that stock coming from both Amazon wholesale orders and stock shipped in by third party sellers." Basically commingling of stock means that "Sold by Amazon" is entirely an accounting function now and says nothing about the physical products or their origin.
I have sold on Amazon via FBA. Everything you say is true. If I ship a new item to Amazon's warehouses, I go through a step in the process where I explicitly give Amazon permission to comingle my item with theirs.
Just 10 minutes ago I paid 10% more for a tool at home depot because I honestly wasnt sure if I would get a fake version on amazon and 10% was worth being relatively sure.
Fyi, Home Depot should price match to Amazon for "sold by Amazon" items, though online purchases are valid only for matching not their 'competitor price -10%' low price guarantee.
A lot of other stores will do the same with online competitors (or their own online pricing). My example from 2 days ago is Target price matching 2x2032 batteries from $7 to the target.com price of $3.
amazon was always the wild west. since 2009 when I started to use amazon heavily I remember having to always police myself to never buy from items without the "sold by amazon" note.
it has nothing to do with evil foreigners or going down to alibaba level. amazom was always the alibaba of the US.