Amazon is doing these two competing things right now: - opening up 3rd party marketplace to dodgy sellers from Asia shipping stuff to US (likely to counter Ali

Amazon is doing these two competing things right now: - opening up 3rd party marketplace to dodgy sellers from Asia shipping stuff to US (likely to counter Alibaba) - increasing false positives rate in counterfeit detection beyond reasonable levels, kicking out legitimate sellers upon mere unfounded suspicion (e.g. you just list an item, you immediately get banned without any sale and they don't easily accept a certificate proving you could sell it) So in order to counter the threat from Alibaba, they are making even the life of good but small-medium sellers a hell in sense of "guilty by default".