Amazon Is Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods: Report

Re:Amazon Is Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods:... by resu_nimda on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:25PM (#17328880)

Again, if you know what you're doing, it's pretty easy to tell tell the difference. I followed the link in the article about the Elevation Lab headphone mount. The counterfeit listing is actually more convincing than most, but wait, "sold by suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd?" Hmm.

I'm not saying it's great that Amazon is allowing this stuff, my point was just that, even with the presence of some noise, it's still a quite useful service and it seems silly to act like it's "over."

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Re:Amazon Is Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods:... by nordsieck on Saturday June 16, 2018 @04:24PM (#17329192)

> Again, if you know what you're doing, it's pretty easy to tell tell the difference. ... The counterfeit listing is actually more convincing than most, but wait, "sold by suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd?" Hmm.

What you apparently don't understand is that Amazon co-mingles inventory from everyone who ships them a particular product.

It doesn't matter if you buy an "Apple USB Power Adapter" from Amazon, Apple, or Shady McCounterfeiters. You get a random sample from the same pool of goods. And that pool of goods often contains counterfeit products (in this particular case, about 90% are counterfeit).

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