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Comment by nunez

2 days ago

It might be a placeholder product to hold the ASIN.

Some (many?) vendors on Amazon will recycle pages this way. Sell some item, change the item and description to dummy values when it stops selling, change to another item that will be sold, repeat.

This is usually done to keep the reviews, though I've also heard about this being used for money laundering.

It's amazing that this has been going on for decades and Amazon still doesn't give a shit.

  • Amazon gets a commission on the sale and doesn’t bear the cost of the returns. What’s not to like/where is the problem/everybody wins/nothing to see here

  • which is why i've stopped my prime subscription many years ago and only buy items there as a last resort.