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A comment on Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes.

Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by praptak on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:26AM (#21546153)
They seem to be aware of this. Amazon Transparency, if successful, will banish fakes. In its essence it's about provable origin of each item, back to the owner of the brand.
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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by bloopernova on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:33AM (#21546215)
Amazon created the problem, and now they're selling a service to fix the problem. That they created. Heckuva business model.
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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by ilamont on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:20PM (#21546656)
And charging vendors for it. You have to buy the codes (5 cents per, no volume discounts) and then pay one of their preferred printers up to 15 cents per Transparency sticker.
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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by rbarnes01 on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:32PM (#21546794)
You don't need to use their preferred printers.
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