Because Amazon has demonstrated little willingness to deal with their counterfeit problems, which extend beyond electronics and oven mitts to things like supplements and consumables.
The cavalier way they treat their supply chains gives me absolutely no confidence that they will treat prescriptions with the proper respect.
Amazon partnering with existing pharmacies seems like a very plausible step to me. Amazon storing inventory from those pharmacies in a single location also sounds like a plausible step to me. And then that's comingling that requires me to trust the absolute worst partner. With good reason to worry that these invisible companies might not have the best standards.
Which step do you think isn't plausible?
And I'm not saying I won't trust it, I'm saying I'd have to research it more and keep extra vigilant for any changes.
Not OP, but I probably wouldn't either. Mainly because I shop on Amazon, and don't want that data harvested and shoved in my face.
AMZ already does "helpful" things like recommend pants extenders when you buy a size down then a size up.
I'd hate to see what they recommend based on prescriptions, especially since many medications have wildly different use cases. If AMZ filled my prescriptions, they'd assume I'm an asthmatic with hives, neither of which are true.
I think a lot of people complain of knockoffs. I know my wife has ordered a very specific brand of prenatal vitamins off amazon once and got a knockoff.
been wondering why people buy from random sellers and yet have a high expectation of them. or to put it another way: would the situation be the same when buying on ebay?
when i buy from a random seller on amazon, i have a low expectation of them. and i return items when not satisfied.
If it’s the same “SKU” they get commingled. Regardless of seller. You may think you are buying from a specific seller but you are not. All the same products are comingled.
If this hasn't changed, Amazon combines the inventory of different sellers. Even if you buy from a particular seller, you may get something from a different seller that may be a knockoff.
Others have given equally persuasive reasons, but for me, it's simply that it's too easy for Amazon to give away vast amounts of data on me, and why should I give them even more of it?
Secondly, the thought of one multi-trillion dollar company owning the entire economy is repulsive. Let some other players in the game, too. I'd rather break them up than make them even bigger.
