I mean, how is it not a distributor? Honest question, all those trucks sure do look like they are distributing products.
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Typically a distributor deals to stores that deal to end users.
Amazon call themselves a store, but at their scale and volume they're pretty much a distributor.
Not even pretty much, they really are a distributor
They have many different businesses all selling on their shelves and then Amazon ships you the product
Nooo the businesses are truly totally independent!
Amazon just handles:
- marketing (choosing who gets the “buy box”)
- warehousing
- fulfillment in their own trucks
- some customer service
- transaction processing / disbursement
Am I forgetting anything? Besides the disclaimer that sellers don’t have to use Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) and could ship themselves.
I could be more sympathetic if they just changed the user interface to put seller names front and center. Even keeping FBA. Even if eBay handled warehousing and fulfillment, we’d still think of it as more of a platform than Amazon - right?
Hidden too deep.
(Interesting, eBay announced “Managed Delivery in 2019, but pulled the plug before launch. They do still help you ship internationally.)
Amazon is the American Aliexpress.
So section 802(?) but for e-commerce not social media.
Maybe then they'll stop selling male to male extension cords
What‽ Why would such a thing exist ??? 🤔
Testing your electrical panel? and how fast the firefighters are to get to your house?
Ob it's far stupider and more deadly: hooking up your personal little generator so you can backfeed electricity to your house during a power outage.
It's even more stupid and deadly than it sounds.
RIP power company linemen who’ve checked the power’s cut off, ‘til somebody pulls that stunt
this is sadly actually one of the largest use cases, it's called a dead-mans cable (for good reason) but it's how many northern residents run generators in the winter during power outages. Cheaper then running a bypass switch (which can easily be 300-500$ to buy plus install cost) by a huge margin. They just throw the main breaker prior to running the generator. It shouldn't be done but it happens more frequently then you would expect especially in the antiqued houses that may not even be up to code in the first place
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"I ran my Christmas lights without paying attention, and now the plug is on the wrong end. Can I just have a male to male so I can feed them the wrong way?"
Or adapters to plug a 30A device into a 15A receptacle
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About fucking time. They've known about the massive problems for years and haven't acted.
Hahaha good, fuck bezos and fuck amazon.
When they first started, Amazon really did have great products, but now it's just overpriced reverse engineered low QA crap.
Hey, low QA crap isn't a fair assessment. I recently bought something that had absolutely NO QA behind it.
Wait Amazon isn't classified as a distributor? wtf that's litterally it's entire buisness model
How in the name of God are they not a distributor?
Well all they do is take in bulk shipments of, categorize, store, individually package, ship, and deliver products. I just really don't see how you could call that "distributing" goods. /s
I think distributor normally sends to other business rather than gen pop. I might be wrong though.
They do VAT receipts in my country, that's B2B
Finally. They sell ship loads of dangerous and faulty wares
Good.
If you're taking a whacking great percentage of everything you sell, you need to be held accountable for the fraudulent, fake and outright dangerous shit that you can buy from it. It's literally just AliExpress with better delivery times.
Like, I know that 2TB USB stick for £21 is fake, but the poor grandma backing up all her photos to it doesn't until it goes over the amount of storage that's actually in it and the whole thing corrupts.
Rossman would be pleased.
Louis Rossmann will be happy to hear this.
Relevant; Louis Rossman on Amazon product quality/safety:
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