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After Selling Millions, Family-Run Makin Bacon Battles Amazon Counterfeiters
- cobrabyte 10y agoSeems like there could be good money in there if someone were to create a tool that allows sellers to track down fakes on sites like Amazon and fire off the appropriate takedown requests to the retailer.
- mythrwy 10y agoSeems like one may be covered: FTA: " Jon uses a piece of $10-a-month subscription software called Visual Ping that scans the Amazon page of Makin Bacon’s main third-party seller and alerts him when the “compare with similar items” number ticks up, alerting him that a new fake has been posted. But the fakes are so numerous, he says, he can’t keep up." Looks like a possible demand for number 2.
- kevin_b_er 10y agoAnd Amazon still gets a cut from each sale, cheap chinese counterfeit or not.
- rebootthesystem 10y agoThe problem is Amazon doesn't care one bit. They do what they have to --the minimum they have to-- but eventually tell you it is a business problem that you, as the brand owner, have to contend with on your own. Meaning, outside of Amazon. If you have a popular product this is pretty much impossible. On the other hand, they have made deals with brands just as Levi's to protect the brand on Amazon. Nobody can sell Levi's on Amazon. They've done this with other brands as well. If you are not big enough for Amazon to care you are screwed.