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Re:$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt by ceejayoz on Saturday December 03, 2022 @09:48AM (#33843851)
> influencers always highlighting when a product they endorse was made in the US

Which is often bullshit. The fine for lying about this tends to be $0, and it's likely to be years before you get caught.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/politics/made-in-the-u...

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Re:$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt by azinman2 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:41PM (#33845359)
Wow. I’m shocked actually - I would have thought the penalties for lying were quite severe. It’s also unclear to me how widespread this actually is. It’s also from 2019 - did anything change with the FTC?
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Re:$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt by ceejayoz on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:46PM (#33845431)
Not enormously, and it's a very tough moving target. Catch a Chinese manufacturer claiming to be "made in the USA" and they'll disappear and reopen as a new name the next day.
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