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

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 richtopia on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:15PM (3 children)

    by richtopia (3160) on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:15PM (#801026) Homepage Journal

    This is also why the standard use case of "sell my used ___" of Ebay is no longer popular. With Ebay siding with the buyer typically, the seller can easily get screwed if the buyer claims the item is defective/not received/etc. If you are selling something worth a couple hundred dollars, the risk of losing the merchandise with no compensation is too high on Ebay.

    I don't have a good solution to this problem; there will be scammers selling and buying from any service.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:25PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:25PM (#801031)

    > I don't have a good solution to this problem; there will be scammers selling and buying from any service.

    If the item is popular enough to sell locally, use Craigslist and complete the deal face-to-face.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:40PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:40PM (#801195)

      I'd rather take the risk of losing money via eBay than getting murdered by meeting someone via Craigslist.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @02:46AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @02:46AM (#801351)

        http://craigslistkillings.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]

        Hadn't heard about this before, but it won't affect my usage of Craigslist -- I'm not buying/selling guns or anything illegal. These two categories seemed to be the majority of what was listed. I've sold all kinds of things including a couple of cars this way, taking the obvious precautions like not being alone and doing the meetup during daylight.