Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers. The change is especially concerning to many sex workers, influencers and public figures who use Amazon wishlists to receive gifts from fans and clients.
First spotted by adult content creators raising the alarm on social media, the changes open anyone who uses wishlists publicly to increased privacy risk unless they change how they receive packages.
In an email sent to list holders, Amazon said beginning March 25, it will reveal users’ shipping addresses to third-party sellers. The platform added that gift purchasers might end up seeing your address as part of this process, too.
Oh so its my problem because YOU fucked up?
First time?
Well, yeah. If it’s a third party seller that means Amazon isn’t shipping you the product so they have to know your address.
Amazon handles fulfillment for tens or thousands of third party sellers.
Unless the item you’re buying says “sold by Amazon” under the Buy buttons, it’s coming from a third party. Prime shipping only means it is coming from the Amazon warehouse, not that Amazon is selling it.
It’s been a major issue for years for commonly counterfeited brands, because apparently Amazon’s warehouses don’t differentiate and all those items are dumped in the same bins, so real products get mixed with fakes and third party sellers get hit with returns, reviews, and even bans for fake products. Apparently Amazon puts the same generic item barcode on all of the items, and once they’re mixed into in the bins they no longer can track individual products back to the original seller.
Apparently Amazon puts the same generic item barcode on all of the items
This really doesn’t make sense.
All extra processes in logistics need to increase accountability and not reduce it.
And simply adding a UUID to a QR is hardly an expensive task.
This outcome is pretty much their intention.It makes sense if they don’t care. It works well enough for their marketplace and that’s as far as they decided to go with it. Amazon isn’t exactly known for accountability.
This outcome is pretty much their intention.
As I said
Their comment was supplementary, not argumentative.
Shouldn’t a wishlist mean that it isn’t shipped at all though? Why would wishlisting expose your home address?
Because people can buy stuff off your wishlist and have it shipped to you. In its current form, it doesn’t expose your address to the buyer, but apparently the change may do that.
Ok
deletes amazon account
I’m protesting tarrifs anyway, haven’t bought a thing in a year.
I’ll have to add my wish that strangers would buy me things I want to my Amazon wishlist.
But you still can’t do that, you see, unless you’d like more visitors than usual.
How tf did Amazon operate without giving shipping addresses to third party sellers and delivery partners?
The problem is now sharing with however buys the gift too.
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