Turns out the man was ahead of Bezos with the robotic warehouse.
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This seems like worse than usual ASIN hijacking.
Unfortunately, Amazon treats product listings a bit like a winner take all Wikipeida page, that anyone can add themselves as a seller to, and can take complete control off if they are the top seller or if they make a trademark claim, however valid or bogus. And taking over listings is a specialty of Chinese sellers who are experts at stealing listings with positive reviews and substituting their own product for the one that has all the good reviews.
Here’s a random post from Amazon’s seller help forums from 2018 (because this has been an issue for years on Amazon):
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Is this not the continuation of a pattern? After all, recently right here on BB we could read about:
- YouTube being suckered in doing something stupid,
- Linked In being suckered in looking totally stupid,
- Today it’s Amazon being suckered in doing something stupid.
It’s been obvious since years that this particular sector cares less than nothing about that, the stupidity was always there, baked in as a feature, and there’s no recourse if you are victimized by a scammer. The wood was warped from the beginning.
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…and peeing in (non-Klein) bottles.
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