1y ago

Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims

www.wsj.com /business/retail/amazon-could-soon-be-on-hook-for-safety-of-third-party-products-it-sells-and-ships-be58b697

Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims::undefined

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I mean, how is it not a distributor? Honest question, all those trucks sure do look like they are distributing products.
- 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
  
  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.
  
  "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
- I've seen these used in low income homes where the basement electricity is paid by the landlord for coin operated washers. Then someone gets their electricity cut (lack of payment) so they use these cables to jump the outlets and steal electricity from the landlord.
  The dude just went to a hardware store and bought an extension cable and a replacement plug head. Snipped the female end and added the male in like 5 minutes.
  The only practical usage of those things is jumping a generator to a house during a blackout.
  Edit: yes please bring on the down votes for me sharing a story about how the poor use these scary cables. Real nice.
  
  And that "practical use" kills linemen.
- Saw a YouTube video about it. It’s not a big deal. You can plug them into an outlet and it’s fine.
  https://youtu.be/H-4mvK2FW78?si=YDSQ8a98mAoQq1OE
  
  Fun fact: when you plug in one side of a male to male connector the other becomes hot, if you somehow manage to plug it in you WILL fuck up your electrical system
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:
(pt1) https://youtu.be/y83BS_mK9GE
(pt2) https://youtu.be/B90_SNNbcoU
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://piped.video/y83BS_mK9GE
  https://piped.video/B90_SNNbcoU
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