Re:Amazon and Ebay Opened Pandora's Box of Chinese Counterfeits
by pault on Monday October 30, 2017 @03:32PM
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The other day I was shopping for tooth whitening strips and the top result was a sketchy no-name product with 400 5 star reviews and only 2 verified purchases. I left a review warning people that the reviews are fake and amazon rejected it. Apparently fake reviews are fine, and thousands of prank reviews from redditors are fine, but calling out fakes is against the TOS. It was so infuriating and made me feel like amazon is intentionally allowing their customers to be defrauded.
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Re:Amazon and Ebay Opened Pandora's Box of Chinese Counterfeits
by grandalf on Monday October 30, 2017 @03:35PM
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Amazon makes tremendous profit on all of the counterfeit goods, so unless customers resort do doing credit card chargebacks Amazon is unlikely to notice. Chances are chargebacks would result in account termination, so Amazon's market power is sort of obvious in this case.