> Amazon's retail catalog is flooded with fakes, drop shippers, bots and low quality products with fake reviews.

I've been noticing this more and more as well. For example, searching for a manual coffee grinder results in three dozen pages of the same four items rebranded and sold by hundreds of individual sellers (and a few chair parts for good measure). All with plenty of good reviews. Finding an actual product amongst all the dreck is getting pretty damned hard.