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We're primarily MF and can easily absorb some of the heat AMZ FBA is going through right now. With AMZ recently passing through their negotiated UPS rates, we should be able to ship within 2-5 days on 99% of our listings with reasonable prices. If you're shopping, look deeper into listings for faster MF Shipping!

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I have no idea what you're talking about. What is MF?

After some googling it looked like he's talking about being "merchant fulfilled" vs "fulfilled by Amazon" (FBA) on Amazon's marketplace.

Eh I don’t feel like buying fake shit. The risk is too high buying from 3rd parties on amazon.

Aren't you equally at risk buying from Amazon themselves due to inventory commingling?

Usually if it's Amazon-shipped they will "take responsibility for this fulfillment experience" and nullify the 1-star review while immediately refunding you, from what I recall.

...from what I recall.

Are you recalling something that happened to you, or a rumor you read somewhere?

Something that happened to me. I left a 1-star review for a merchant that took 3 months to ship and it stayed up. I left a 1 star review for a completely unresponsive merchant that took Amazon a month to FBA for some reason (stock/non-commingled?) and it was removed with the reason "fulfilled by Amazon, we take responsibility for this experience", but Amazon did credit me back while the seller continued to ignore contact.

I've had sellers also threaten me over reviews while they ship counterfeit product, but that's a whole other can of worms

MF? I wonder if you could explain what that means?

Merchant Fulfilled - We handle shipping ourselves.

Means they don't rely on Amazon's warehouse infrastructure, just their online store.

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