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colechristensen on July 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now ...

A big part of the problem is co-mingled inventory. When you buy X from seller Y, you do not necessarily get the X that Y physically shipped to Amazon. You get an X with same SKU from Amazon's collection.

ehsankia on July 14, 2018 [–]

Right, hence why "Verified" would be nice. An SKU should allowed to be merged if both are Verified or both are unverified.

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