Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims::undefined
I mean, how is it not a distributor? Honest question, all those trucks sure do look like they are distributing products.
Typically a distributor deals to stores that deal to end users.
Amazon call themselves a store, but at their scale and volume they’re pretty much a distributor.
Not even pretty much, they really are a distributor
They have many different businesses all selling on their shelves and then Amazon ships you the product
Nooo the businesses are truly totally independent!
Amazon just handles:
- marketing (choosing who gets the “buy box”)
- warehousing
- fulfillment in their own trucks
- some customer service
- transaction processing / disbursement
Am I forgetting anything? Besides the disclaimer that sellers don’t have to use Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) and could ship themselves.
I could be more sympathetic if they just changed the user interface to put seller names front and center. Even keeping FBA. Even if eBay handled warehousing and fulfillment, we’d still think of it as more of a platform than Amazon - right?
Hidden too deep.
(Interesting, eBay announced “Managed Delivery in 2019, but pulled the plug before launch. They do still help you ship internationally.)
Amazon is the American Aliexpress.
So section 802(?) but for e-commerce not social media.
Maybe then they’ll stop selling male to male extension cords
What‽ Why would such a thing exist ??? 🤔
Testing your electrical panel? and how fast the firefighters are to get to your house?
Ob it’s far stupider and more deadly: hooking up your personal little generator so you can backfeed electricity to your house during a power outage.
It’s even more stupid and deadly than it sounds.
RIP power company linemen who’ve checked the power’s cut off, ‘til somebody pulls that stunt
Don’t you need one of those to use your tesla as a house generator
There’s a specific process and kind of panel you need to back feed power into your home
Basically your panel needs to have it setup so that it can either be powered by the generator or the grid. 1 or the other but never both at the same time.
Um, no. Normally you would use a regular male to female extension cable for that. Your electrical panel would have a male plug on the wall which is specifically wired up to safely provide power to your home.
teslas specifically don’t generate electricity
what is going on in this thread?
“As a” implies knowledge that it is not a generator but can effectively be used as one.
“I ran my Christmas lights without paying attention, and now the plug is on the wrong end. Can I just have a male to male so I can feed them the wrong way?”
Or adapters to plug a 30A device into a 15A receptacle
I’ve seen these used in low income homes where the basement electricity is paid by the landlord for coin operated washers. Then someone gets their electricity cut (lack of payment) so they use these cables to jump the outlets and steal electricity from the landlord.
The dude just went to a hardware store and bought an extension cable and a replacement plug head. Snipped the female end and added the male in like 5 minutes.
The only practical usage of those things is jumping a generator to a house during a blackout.
And that “practical use” kills linemen.
I keep hearing this as the “Reason” but never backed by anything that makes sense. I’ve never needed to jump my generator to my house, and don’t particularly care to even in the event of “disaster” so don’t attack me like I’m doing this…
If you successfully suicide jumper your generator to the grid. Wouldn’t the collective load of all your neighbors stuff kill the generator? (eg bog it down to the point that it turns off? [if it has no breaker]) Also wouldn’t the load of literally your whole neighborhood trip off the breaker in the generator(or in the panel)? Doesn’t this leave it as the only “risk” is if you happen to turn on the generator as the lineman themselves are specifically holding a live wire with an active connection to a ground/neutral before the previous stuff can happen? Or only if they happen to isolate you and then you turn on the genny after? Wouldn’t you agree that this last thing would be an incredibly rare?
And I can never find an article where a cable was determined to be the cause of an electrocution…
Now because the internet is the internet… I’m not advocating for using suicide cables… There’s much easier reasons why this is a terrible idea (exposed live contacts being literally the primary one). But I just never understood the “lineman” argument with all the stuff that would have to go specifically “right” in order to do that kind of harm to a lineman.
You have one article from 1989 from a 3rd world country and think that’s analogous to what we do in any 1st world country?
Further your article doesn’t state the cause of the lines being energized. There’s no evidence that a persons generator caused this.
Since you actually addressed NOTHING that I’ve brought up.
Do better. Snarky asshat.
Saw a YouTube video about it. It’s not a big deal. You can plug them into an outlet and it’s fine.
Fun fact: when you plug in one side of a male to male connector the other becomes hot, if you somehow manage to plug it in you WILL fuck up your electrical system
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About fucking time. They’ve known about the massive problems for years and haven’t acted.
Finally. They sell ship loads of dangerous and faulty wares
How in the name of God are they not a distributor?
Rossman would be pleased.
Hahaha good, fuck bezos and fuck amazon.
When they first started, Amazon really did have great products, but now it’s just overpriced reverse engineered low QA crap.
Louis Rossmann will be happy to hear this.
Good.
If you’re taking a whacking great percentage of everything you sell, you need to be held accountable for the fraudulent, fake and outright dangerous shit that you can buy from it. It’s literally just AliExpress with better delivery times.
Like, I know that 2TB USB stick for £21 is fake, but the poor grandma backing up all her photos to it doesn’t until it goes over the amount of storage that’s actually in it and the whole thing corrupts.
