YSK: Walmart online "Marketplace" store has third party sellers that Walmart does not always vet fully, or set their prices. Some of these sellers can be fraudulent in nature.

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• mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is party much every retailer out there, this is not news.

  Amazon and eBay are obvious, but Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, Newegg, Target, Lowes, etc. They’ve all done it to expand their online presence. You have options to filter by company name or “sold and ship by” to cut out possibly bad sellers but you’d not know to check unless you’ve had a bad experience returning product.

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  • Dhs92@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Amazon has also been caught mixing inventory between sellers in the past. Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s extremely common with others

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All of these marketplaces are like that now. Amazon, Target, Walmart, Wayfair, etc.

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• three@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  YSK not to shop at w*lmart…

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• Ryoae@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s why you don’t buy from them

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I feel like the ones doing the food products are always counting on someone being desperate for a unique item. The prices are often crazy high.

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• lemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Isn’t that what a marketplace means? Otherwise it’s an online shop?

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  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s what Amazon, Walmart, etc want it to mean. They want the profits, but none of the responsibility that comes with selling goods. So they did some legal linguistic gymnastics and thus according to them, stuff that is bought in the Amazon store, with a % markup by Amazon, with payment to Amazon, and with shipping by Amazon, is somehow not Amazon’s responsibility.

    The USA government had gone after the large platforms for selling defective/dangerous goods, but that was in 2024 under Biden, so I expect that investigation to be dead by now. The EU is still going ahead though: reuters.com/…/eu-make-temu-shein-amazon-liable-un…

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• zingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Like all marketplaces.

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• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Someone should sell plates with Kirby Inflation fetish art on it

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I take it you haven’t been to my etsy page.

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