Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amazon's brand

Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by jrnichols on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:40PM (#13926026)

poor experiences with cheap phone chargers/etc are the reason I've been sticking to the Amazon Basics line.

and then Anker, because the cats won't chew through those.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by andyzweb on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:36PM (#13926495)

>poor experiences with cheap phone chargers/etc are the reason I've been sticking to the Amazon Basics line.

This is a brilliant strategy on Amazon's part.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by kogepathic on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:36AM (#13928688)

> This is a brilliant strategy on Amazon's part.

Indeed. I was recently in the market for a small mono/tripod to bring with me on vacation.

Looking at the "Best Sellers" for this category, it's blatantly obvious that Amazon is just taking the existing top 3 models, copying them almost 1:1, and then undercutting the original product price with their "Amazon Basics" branded product.

How are you supposed to survive selling a product when even Amazon is out there copying it and selling it for less?

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by SmellyGeekBoy on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:39AM (#13929587)

Are you sure they're not just buying them in from the manufacturers and rebranding?

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by kogepathic on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:28AM (#13929783)

They might be, but what would the manufacturer's incentive be to compete with "Amazon Basics" ?

Amazon is selling it for less, and putting their branding on the product.

I'm hardly a widget manufacturer, but to me this would be a nonsensical choice for a them to manufacture as an ODM for Amazon when they're also selling their own product through Amazon.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by jessaustin on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:16PM (#13926791)

So what's the over/under on when Amazon will be cluelessly selling commingled counterfeits of "Basics" items? A week?

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by chipperyman573 on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:50PM (#13927015)

Amazon Basics is amazon's line of products, you can't sell them yourself because they'd always be counterfit (or used)

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by jessaustin on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:57PM (#13927049)

By the same process in which Amazon has sold counterfeit NoStarch books, Amazon could also sell counterfeit "Basics" products. At this point, we're pretty sure it has something to do with commingling...

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by chipperyman573 on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @07:01PM (#13927073)

Why would Amazon let anyone sell an Amazon Basics product? It's not a "Basics" category, it's the "Amazon Basics" brand. Nobody else could produce those.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by jessaustin on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @07:23PM (#13927199)

Hey man, sometimes the system just does what you tell it to do, rather than what it should have known you meant. b^)

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by mjevans on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:01AM (#13928360)

If they aren't the only alternative that comes to my mind is someone /buys/ an actual Amazon Basics product, doesn't open it, and somehow sells it elsewhere while 'returning' a counterfeit product or defective unit to the inventory.

However if they (Amazon) are doing their job then the risk to reward ratio should be far too high on this.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by ansible on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:45AM (#13928907)

If Amazon doesn't have good controls to prevent people from selling fake Apple products, I wouldn't assume they have good internal controls to prevent the seeking off their own products either.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by nommm-nommm on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @11:15AM (#13931581)

They could create a well done fake listing.

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by jrnichols on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:01PM (#13952929)

It really is. There's at least some level of trust there as well.

At least I was pretty sure they're Apple MFI certified. I've never had any issues with them at all, they're well priced, and so far, reliable. And they have a 1 year warranty, which is nice for a cable.

the Amazon Basics line has a lot of stuff. Dishes too!

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Re:Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amaz... by nommm-nommm on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @11:13AM (#13931556)

There's a product called "Grannick's Bitter Apple" that you spray on cords to prevent the cats from chewing on them. It's labeled for dogs but it works on cats (in my experience).

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