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Originally Posted by disconnected
I don't understand why they need to have anything to differentiate the special offer versions at all. It's just a setting on Amazon's end that determines whether or not you get ads. It can't depend on SKU because it can be changed whenever you want it to be.
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Customers need to see something on the Kindle packaging that states what item they ordered (else how would you know you got the right item?). But more fundamentally, the SKU is different because that is an accounting requirement of any business selling stuff. It does not matter that physically the item is the same. It needs to be assigned to a given sale.
In theory they could defer SKU assignment (putting the appropriate label on and scanning it to cause the correct behavior to be enabled) until just before they ship - but it might run afoul of import or accounting rules, or just be something they don’t want to pay US employees or contractors to do in what is otherwise a warehouse whose whole purpose is to ship things out as efficiently as possible.