Comment Re:Amazon destroyed its own reviews system... (Score 1) 49
More generally, Amazon is destroying its value as a seller by acting as a marketplace. They've deliberately made it as difficult as possible to tell the difference between goods sold by Amazon and ones being sold by third parties using their system. That makes it easy for scammers to take advantage of the system. They could try to weed out the scammers, but they won't. They're worried that eliminating scammers could give some company that's less discriminating a chance to break into the market. I get the impression that Temu is already doing this. At the same time, I'm sure the scammers are good for Amazon's short term profits. Not their long term health, though; they're getting so worthless for so many things, people are going to go back to buying from individual sellers who don't have the same quality problems.