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Re:How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon [video] by HillaryBriss on Monday December 17, 2018 @01:33PM (#18700917)
Ugh. There are still a couple of canned food items I buy regularly on Amazon. Supposedly they are from the US and Europe, but, yeah, I guess with Amazon you never know.

But because Amazon is hitting conventional, traditional retailers so hard, now I have to wonder: could Amazon's behavior with regard to counterfeit products and commingling influence my local brick and mortar retailers to do the same thing?

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Re:How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon [video] by mtnGoat on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:06PM (#18701717)
yea i never thought about this happening to canned food either.... until i heard stories of shipping containers full of counterfeit redbull being caught by customs at a terminal.

If it's branded and there is a decent profit margin, i guess we should assume some questionable actor will steal that margin given the opportunity.

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