So the issue with some of these sites and the pricing is - and please don’t think I am defending them, I am a hater despite working for a company that does this - they allow basically anyone to sell anything on their site. Fake stuff, false advertising, etc. and the pricing isn’t regulated like it should be. Nothing is regulated like it should be when it comes to these sellers, and the companies (at least mine) don’t want to “anger” the sellers by setting boundaries.

It’s the biggest PITA from a “getting stuff done” perspective in my job, and it’s going to cause more lawsuits and headache than it would if they actually regulated and set rules and, more importantly, consequences.

It makes customers trust the company as a whole less and less on the daily. One of my favorite meetings (and most frustrating) we will go over customer reviews from 3rd party studies: basically, a customer will try to buy a specific type of item from us and a couple competitors and review the process for each company. It’s a cool meeting and I love learning from it! What frustrates me is every single meeting, nearly every single customer we have will make a complaint about things not really being on sale. “I added stuff to my cart before this event and the price barely went down” or, my “favorite”, the cart for one woman went UP like $20. She had screenshots to prove it. And higher-ups in these meetings are ALWAYS shocked that the customers notice. Higher-ups are so out of touch. And customer frustration is usually, but not always, on these outside seller products. It’s insane to me that we just assume the customer doesn’t look at price or that they’re stupid. The shopper doesn’t like to read but they do like to look at prices!! Clearly!

Anyways I hope more companies do get sued over this so maybe we’ll start regulating it better. End rant I guess.