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It will get flagged eventually.

No, really, I have worked at amazon in a job exactly around product compliance and such.

All this is very hard to solve and they do what they can, people wont believe it, but amazon is not just an app, the heavy lifting part is logistics, admin thereof and compliance.

Theres no easy way to be fraudulent on amazon, the cost of market entry for sellers is rather big.

Mislabeled products and bad account health have terrible consequesnces for sellers.

I do understand it might appear from the outside that nobody cares, but it looks different once inside.

As for the allegations a profit/benefit calculation being behind it is most likely wrong, amazon, apart from fullfilment center staff is always overhiring to be ready for peak seasons and the whole thing is subsidized via aws, the real money maker.

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Changing the product category shouldn't "get flagged eventually" after many people have already been scammed. There is no reason why such changes can't require review by Amazon except that Amazon doesn't want to pay for that.

> Theres no easy way to be fraudulent on amazon, the cost of market entry for sellers is rather big.

It's easy enough that fraud (for example recycled listings with old reviews) is common enough that many people, including myself, have run into it.

> Mislabeled products and bad account health have terrible consequesnces for sellers.

Not enough that it isn't widespread.