@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
@inhawaii wrote:
@dbfolks166mt wrote:
I'm not a lawyer, but i'm pretty sure you can buy pistachios from wal-mart and sell them on ebay.
I just generally pick them up when I am at Wal-Mart.
...and once you do, you can eat them, sell them, give them away or throw them away. 😉
Or set them on fire 💥
This thread has me confused. I can't figure out what the OP is doing 😕
The OP's post definitely a bit confusing. As one poster noted however Amazon as an example is becoming more and more restrictive of products acquired for sale by third party vendors. There are only so many ways that goes, they are feeling pressure from manufacturer's or distributors, authorized resellers of given products or their competitor(s). It's not like Amazon has not been allowing said resale to occur.
Walmart is Amazon's new arch enemy as they are the big mover in eCommerce right now. Amazon is a retailer unlike eBay which is simply a venue. We could speculate that other retailers are pressuring Amazon in finding/knowing product sold at Amazon has been acquired at said retailers outlets or manufacturers, distributors or authorized resellers have found this and pressure Amazon or all the above even. Many products carry "lot information" that key back to all forms of data, manf. date, facility, revisions on and on and via that information said entities can locate via distribution where said product come from originally.
Just as w/ my local game store example Walmart or Target, BestBuy, Gamestop on and on are competitors of Amazon's. For product to be bought through those venues and then resold at a competing retailer can cross those lines of lawful business conduct practices.
We used to go through this with the software publishers back in the day. We buy delisted product, publisher/distributor/liquidator and ever retail liquidation direct. We'd in's with Circuit City, EB Games, Fry's, Egghead Software, Media Play whereby delisted product we could obtain at deep deep discount direct from regional warehouse. There was ALWAYS the stipulation that we could NOT sell product back into retail and the reason was lawful business practice conducts. Lets say Staples, Office Max or CompUSA, CostCo had not yet pulled delisted titles from retail shelves. So they're still selling "xxx titles" at full retail of say $49.95 under their NET Terms of they're distributor, say Ingram Micro. All of a sudden we're selling into the backdoor of say EB Games or some local/regional retailer(s) and our cost of acquisition is $3 a unit. Obviously we gift those retailers an enormous price advantage over the afore mentioned entities. But its not only about said products, its about the consumers. Consumers may decide that they would rather do business with those entities we slid product in via the backdoor in the future vs CompUSA, Staples, Office Max.
Retail, product, sales in general when looking at the big picture are ever so much more complex than many people fathom.
