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Re:Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $... by warent on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @05:28PM (#21880831)
The solution starts with manually verifying products. I'm not convinced that it's impossible for Amazon or other stores to have a quality verification system where they have people hired specifically for this purpose. Maybe even a third party could specifically do this. You don't have to do it for every single item, just do it once whenever someone wants to list a product on the platform. Whenever reviews start complain about bogus products, investigate, and if they changed the product from the last time you verified it, remove them from the platform for a period of time.
Re:Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $... by shurth on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:49PM (#21881591)
I work for a company that produces ingestible goods. Having worked for Amazon previously, I knew select brands were allowed to be “gated”, that is, only be sold by authorized resellers. Imagine my surprise when Amazon repeatedly denied us the ability to gate our brand. As a consumer, I’d like to know that an ingestible good comes from a reputable source - more so than a Coach purse. The whole experience really shot Bezos’ “customer centricity” principle in the rear for me.

Amazon could greatly improve its counterfeit issue by giving manufacturers more control over their brand. That, to me, is the root of the issue.

Re:Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $... by teblaskan on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @05:44PM (#21880903)
some hunch tells me this would put them out of business
Re:Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $... by mkl on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @07:58PM (#21881392)
Why do you think that? I think they would just pass the slightly increased cost on to vendors and/or customers.
Re:Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $... by didibus on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @07:57PM (#21881389)
That's currently what they do I'm pretty sure. It seems they'd need something more, because sellers appear to be too ingenious.
Re:Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $... by didibus on Thursday December 26, 2019 @05:54PM (#21887557)
This isn't the best source, but the claims are there: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/product-safety-and...

Only difference from what OP suggested is it doesn't seem they manually look at all initial listing. Apart from that it seems they claim having exactly the described system by OP in place.