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Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem

posted by martyb on Thursday February 14 2019, @11:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the fakes-news dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/amazon-10k-warns-investors-about-counterfeit-problem-for-first-time.html

After years of denial and stonewalling, Amazon has admitted for the first time that they have a problem with counterfeit products. This primarily affects the Amazon Marketplace.

As a personal victim of getting counterfeit goods several times from Amazon (and eBay), I thought I'd help spread the word a bit farther. Apparently counterfeit board games is a big thing.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:30PM (6 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:30PM (#801011) Journal

    CDs are so obsolete anyway. Wasn't it available as a download from Amazon? Or from, well ... ;).

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:52PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:52PM (#801017) Journal

    While I can find some very obscure things as mp3 downloads on Amazon, there are a few, very few, CDs that I can only find as actual CDs. In one of those cases leading into the recent Christmas season, I went directly to the seller, who had a store, and bypassed Amazon.

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    • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:08PM (3 children)

      by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:08PM (#801022) Journal

      Yeah, special editions and foreign releases in particular...there was one song I wanted recently where I bought the album on Amazon...only to discover that what they sell is a completely different version of the song. They apparently refuse to offer it for download in the original German, you can only get the crappy English translation where the lyrics are forced into place rather awkwardly...if you want the original you have to buy a CD.

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by AssCork on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:18PM (1 child)

        by AssCork (6255) on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:18PM (#801180) Journal

        "99 Luft Baloons" is such an awesome track! :)

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        • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:33PM

          by Gaaark (41) on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:33PM (#801190) Journal

          Only song I thought of as well! ;)

          The original is awesome because....German, lol.

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      • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday February 15 2019, @01:57AM

        by driverless (4770) on Friday February 15 2019, @01:57AM (#801336)

        They apparently refuse to offer it for download in the original German, you can only get the crappy English translation

        A cheaper alternative would be to go with Trump's reinterpretations, which are available for free online. He doesn't have the presence of the original German speaker though...

  • (Score: 2) by black6host on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:16PM

    by black6host (3827) on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:16PM (#801177) Journal

    Well, it was available as a download. Those are hard to resell, though. :)