Comment by pochamago
5 years ago
This article doesn't really delve into the ruling at all, so I'm not sure. It's quite possible narrower than that, having to do with something specific about how Amazon does business, in which case I would expect them to do doing whatever makes them liable rather than fixing the reliability issue. Honestly, I mostly just wish they'd put country flags next to sellers names so I could avoid getting products from China
Amazon would have to break this chain:
>1) interacting with the customer, 2) taking the order, 3) processing the order to the third party seller, 4) collecting the money, and 5) being paid a percentage of the sale – are consistent with a retailer or a distributor of consumer goods.