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Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink (www.wired.com)

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[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 168 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

TLDR, not an Onion headline, just a test to see what Amazon will allow. A person came up with a "Release" brand drink, filled bottles with urine, successfully listed them on Amazon, but only shipped them to friends that ordered them. Other people ordered them too though, but were not sent the product.

Another example of a multi-billion dollar company that doesn't curate their products/services. Costs too much money they would only profit 234 billion instead of 244 billion.

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year ago

This is totally an Onion headline, just not an Onion article.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Touche

[-] joelthelion@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Another example of a multi-billion dollar company that doesn’t curate their products/services. Costs too much money they would only profit 234 billion instead of 244 billion.

In the long term it's a terrible strategy. People will lose confidence and stop shopping there. I've almost stopped and I know I'm not the only one.

Not that most executives care about long term...

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

People will lose confidence and stop shopping there.

Not if they replace your lost piss for free.

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Naw they didn’t even need me to send it back! I got the keep the piss and they sent me more free piss!

Pissful win

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, the thing with that is Amazon has already integrated into so many other markets that it doesn’t matter what you the consumer do

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

wait. so lovers of piss play where not sent the product they ordered??? Not cool man. leading them on like that.

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And they're going to spend 1 billion dollars on themselves to make sure they don't end up spending millions on others.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Well, someone's gotta take the piss out of Amazon.

[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

🫳🏼🎤💥 That's a wrap, everyone. Close the thread 🤌🏼

[-] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Babedi boobedi 🤌

[-] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

"Reality" is going to make the onion go out of business.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hasn't happened yet, never will

Satire stronk

[-] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Can someone link text, theres a paywall

[-] bbbbb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

https://archive.ph/8nNcQ

[-] mephiska@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

open the link in an incognito window.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

Not in this community

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In this time of year?

[-] Whiskeyomega@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Localized entirely in your kitchen ?

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

May I see it?

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No.

[-] finthechat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Belle Delphine shoulda sold her piss too

[-] SnakeGS@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So they do give a piss about it

[-] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe because they see it can generate profit...

[-] LegionElite@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Idk why but, this really pissed me off!

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Rumor has it that the polish pis party made a large order

[-] Corran1138@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

BE Man, Amazon must be really pissed off about this...

[+] BillDaCatt@kbin.social -12 points 1 year ago

So let me see if I have this right:
A dishonest seller packaged human urine as an energy drink and offered it for sale on Amazon as some kind of weird experiment. The seller then successfully sold the urine to friends through the site but refused sales to others. So the real crime, selling bodily fluids as food, was committed by the seller, but only to friends who knew what they were really getting.

The bit about the seller being also employed by Amazon sounds like a red herring to make it seem like Amazon had some kind of prior knowledge about this.

I love complaining about Amazon and all of their failings as much as the next guy, but I'm having a hard time seeing Amazon as the bad guy in this instance.

[-] quindraco@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

You could try reading the article. Almost nothing in your summary is accurate.

[-] skulblaka@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Just went and read the entire article. That's pretty much spot on. Journalist sneaks into Amazon warehouse with a camera, interviews drivers, gets caught, and then has the idea to sell bottles of piss (real piss? Fake piss? Empty bottle? It's not specified) on Amazon. Which some people then buy and then an Amazon automated service contacted him about boosting his business.

There's also a bonus bit in there about his daughters being able to buy knives and rat poison from Alexa without any age verification.

It brings up some notable points in the age verification section, and it brings up some notable points about life as a delivery driver, but as far as the actual product is concerned it's hard to paint Amazon as the bad guy this time. This is clearly a ridiculous item. If you're shopping and you click on and order a clearly labeled bottle of piss, when it arrives on your doorstep that's your own problem.

That said though if just anybody can post and sell literally anything, even things like that, and Amazon does nothing to monitor what they're selling through their site - well, Amazon is going to get flooded with garbage and scams sooner rather than later.

[-] PoetSII@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

well, Amazon is going to get flooded with garbage and scams sooner rather than later.

Where have you been the last decade?

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