It's remarkable the contortions I see to avoid blaming Amazon for anything. Surely we can't blame them for obvious scams on their platform. After all, they cater to humans.

But somehow there exist retailers that don't have such a problem fakes and counterfeits. Even ones run by humans.

Oh. You’re right. All scales of business are the same, and counterfeit prevention is the same at all sizes. Also the number of products a small business sells is the same as a large business.

You got me.

I fucking hate Amazon, but you got me.

You must have missed a part of your post to make your point: "And all that is entirely uniformly spread out, which is why Amazon is precisely as bad as every other e-commerce website"

Or was that not what you were trying to say?