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Amazon Blames ‘Error’ for Blocking Nintendo Resellers From Listing Products | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 5 comments | Search Discussion
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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday November 05 2019, @11:28AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday November 05 2019, @11:28AM (#916197) Journal

    thinking they could get away with it..

    So, how long until they try it again?

    --
    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @12:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @12:57PM (#916211)

      Amazon has been doing similar things for many years. It's not an error, it's corporate bad behavior and almost no one has stood up against it.

      Here's my personal story--when they were getting started and mostly selling books, Amazon demanded large discounts, free return shipping for unsold books, and other special treatment from publishers. If a publisher (in particular smaller specialty publishers) refused, Amazon would list their books as "Out of print or 10 weeks." This happened more than once to my engineering reference book--which has been in print continuously since 1995.

      How did I find out? Several emails came to me (the author), "Help, I see your book is out of print--but I really want a copy, do you have any left and can you sell me one?" This is the power of false advertising, these customers believed the hype that Amazon was the last word in buying books, if it wasn't at Amazon, it must be unavailable. In fact, it was often cheaper directly from my publisher's online book shop (sometimes Amazon would sell below list price, but not for long).

      My publisher currently refuses to sell their more popular titles to Amazon, it's not worth the hassle and the money isn't there. The books do appear on the Amazon site from 3rd party sellers, but the prices are usually outrageously high. I guess some book sellers are still counting on the Amazon brand and on customers to not do any price shopping?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:03PM (#916354)

    Most were beating their chests some were throwing barrels around, the only nice people were offering magic mushrooms though.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:44PM (#916397)

    I liked this one reply on the Amazon forums:

    How does an email like that get sent as a mistake, how is an email like that already typed up and ready to go?

    Other sellers pointed out that the email wasn't the only action. Inventory became stranded if you used Amazon for fulfillment (FBA), and permissions we removed from other areas of the site.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @07:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @07:45PM (#916479)

      My guess is they accidentally hit a "select all," or equivalent, in trying to flag a particular counterfeit seller and everything else was just an automatic reaction to that. I don't think it would be a brand-gate because I would think Nintendo and Amazon would have some PR thing ready to go for when it hit the news, rather than sheepishly just undo it. It isn't like this even garnered that much media attention to require an about-face turn like this.

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