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.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:15PM (3 children)
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:25PM (2 children)
> 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)
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
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.