Care to elaborate? I've only been using their service for 18 years, so it's possible I missed something during 1997 or 1998 that would change my perception of

Care to elaborate? I've only been using their service for 18 years, so it's possible I missed something during 1997 or 1998 that would change my perception of the counterfeiting issue. But from where I sit it appears to have grown much worse over that time. Do you mean that Amazon has always had a terrible counterfeiting problem and we're only just noticing?