So I steal some consumer goods, put them in individual boxes, send them to Amazon warehouse and they distribute for me.
I simply never put that together.
But surely Amazon is literally handling stolen goods?
Is there a smoking gun email?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Bay-Area-retail-th...
Of course if it's some popular in-demand book, it was almost certainly stolen. Most of the free library books I've scored are 50 year old textbooks about obscure/obsolete topics.
If Amazon were a mom and pop fence, the local cops could bust them in a sting. But Amazon is a huge megacorp, so even if the cops try to catch them in a sting nothing will stick because Amazon will claim their shear scale rendered them completely oblivious to everything and therefore not criminally culpable.
Yeah, it's bullshit.
If you can prove Amazon has or sold your stolen goods you can absolutely be made whole by following a process.
I don’t really think our system errs on the side of justice but I think the remedies available to victims in these two scenarios are about appropriate to the respective scenarios.