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shouldn't there be a mechanism that allowed legitimate sellers to report and block knock-off sellers on ebay/amazon? Amazon and eBay are American companies so

• baybal2 9y ago
  Well, Apple and Sony together effectively bribed Alibaba to prohibit trade in factory refurbished second hand electronics. I was making money on that myself in my teenage years. Probably, I would not be a developer now if Apple did not come up with Iphone and Sony and Nokia did not tank to the bottom so quickly at around 2009. First and second generations of iphones were easily refurbishable. They turned to optic medium and harder adhesives in third gen, and in the middle of production run for the third, they began using one that was completely impossible to undo in garage workshop conditions to finally kill refurbishment industry
• j-c-hewitt 9y ago
  There is, sort of. On Amazon, you have to do test purchases. You can then file complaints to Amazon. In many cases, this results in a suspension or some other kind of ding against their account particularly if they can't verify an authentic supply chain. Amazon avoids getting in trouble by putting the legal responsibility entirely on sellers. They are just a 'dumb pipe' running the marketplace.