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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: 0) by fakefuck39 on Thursday February 14 2019, @05:39PM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Thursday February 14 2019, @05:39PM (#801058)

    What is a reason for this immense extra cost though? A photo of an item does nothing to tell you whether it's counterfeit. Putting a battery on a cocaine-precise scale does. What problem are you trying to solve with this? Right now, you don't like it, you return it and you don't pay shipping. I don't see a use case for what you propose.

    If a seller gets shill reviews, the seller reports it, and they are taken down, and accounts posting them are investigated. If you have an amazon account who bought one thing and posted a hundred shill reviews - it's clear it's a shill account, and all its reviews are taken down.

    I for example like to look at a seller's bad reviews that are a few months old. They do check those, as for high-star high-volume sellers there aren't many bad ones, and they get in touch w/ people to resolve them.

    Of course Amazon would rather make a profit instead of doing useless things. I would also rather pay less and be able to send the item back a month after I receive it, for free, if I have any issues.

    Now, if you order from new sellers, who have low volume - problem - they might not refund your. If you don't read reviews for a seller (not the product) - problem - they might not refund you. How is this different compared to walking into a random little pawn shop and buying a stereo? Do stupid shit, get stupid fake shit.