On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:26:14 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Remember the vast majority of stuff on amazon is not actually from
amazon: they do the shop site, the payment processing and underwrite the
transaction BUT the stuff is being shipped from 'man in a shed'
operations quite often.

There's three categories of stuff...

Sold by Amazon.
Sold and fulfilled by ManInShed.
Sold by ManInShed, fulfilled by Amazon.