[taylorexpander]

Right, so when you buy things from Amazon you have several options:

1. Items sold by Amazon. 2. Items sold by 3rd parties and fulfilled by Amazon. 3. Items sold by 3rd parties and shipped by 3rd parties.

The problem is that items in their fulfillment centers, (1) and (2) are mixed together. Just because you buy something sold by Amazon doesn’t guarantee that you won’t be sent a counterfeit item that a 3rd party sent to amazon to use for fulfillment.

[awakeasleep]

There is actually a new category of products sold and shipped by third parties that still count as prime shipping somehow.

[leeoniya]

we have Prime products that we mfg, sell and ship directly. basically you have to be very diligent about shipping by their cutoff times and use a service that guarantees the delivery date and must generate your shipping labels through amazon so they can track it all. we hooked up our existing ups account and dont have to purchase shipping through amazon. we ship out all orders same day (not just amazon) but it's easy to lose Prime status if you fall behind.

[partisan]

Is there a source confirming this?

[home_boi]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...

Everything except for topical/consumable items and items with an expiration date can be conmingled.

[partisan]

Thank you for finding that. It's hard to believe they haven't considered the potential issues that arise from this. Or they have considered the issues and found it financially viable to ignore them.

[mannykannot]

Was this not exactly the problem with eclipse glasses last summer? People who ordered the real thing were being shipped dangerous knock-offs.

[wlkr]

This article [0] seems pretty comprehensive. I recall there being a thread here on this topic fairly recently but I can't seem to find it now.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/12/13/how-to-p...