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What should they do, exactly? Even they got sold a bunch of counterfit Apple chargers. The sellers are using OEM bar codes and the surface of the items match th

What should they do, exactly? Even they got sold a bunch of counterfit Apple chargers. The sellers are using OEM bar codes and the surface of the items match the OEM virtually perfectly.

tomohawk 9y ago
Amazon is basically providing a goods laundering service for criminals. There's not much difference between what they're doing and what someone is doing who is fencing stolen goods. If they're going to comingle goods, then they need to put their own tracking onto the goods so that it is possible to know who provided the goods to which buyers. Either that or require that each item has a unique rfid or other identifier. This would allow tracing of counterfeit goods back to the supplier. As it is, when you buy something that turns out to not be legit, you have no real recourse, and often the wrong supplier gets dinged.
chiefalchemist 9y ago
What should they do? Are you suggesting Jeff The Genius - who has aspirations to put a man on the moon - can't figure something out? Somehow? The better question: Why are they doing nothing? The answer is obvious.
Slansitartop 9y ago
Pretty sure Amazon has the resources to: 1. Only stock counterfeit-prone items verifiably sourced from the real manufacturer, e.g. Apple, LV, Bose, etc. 2. Stop commingling inventory from multiple sources, which totally prevents any crowd-sourced detection of counterfeit sellers. 3. Increase manpower devoted counterfeit detection and enforcement. This could even include randomly pulling items from inventory and testing/inspecting them. 4. Detect obviously fake items, such as 1 TB microSD cards priced at $10. This can done through pre-listing manual reviews plus automation. 5. Give users obvious ways to signal the mothership about counterfeits, and take action on the signals. 6. etc. In short there's all kinds of stuff a company with the resources of Amazon can do to solve this problem. The fact that they're doing nothing is telling.

What should they do, exactly? Even they got sold a bunch of counterfit Apple chargers. The sellers are using OEM bar codes and the surface of the items match the OEM virtually perfectly.

tomohawk 9y ago

Amazon is basically providing a goods laundering service for criminals. There's not much difference between what they're doing and what someone is doing who is fencing stolen goods. If they're going to comingle goods, then they need to put their own tracking onto the goods so that it is possible to know who provided the goods to which buyers. Either that or require that each item has a unique rfid or other identifier. This would allow tracing of counterfeit goods back to the supplier. As it is, when you buy something that turns out to not be legit, you have no real recourse, and often the wrong supplier gets dinged.

chiefalchemist 9y ago

What should they do? Are you suggesting Jeff The Genius - who has aspirations to put a man on the moon - can't figure something out? Somehow? The better question: Why are they doing nothing? The answer is obvious.

Slansitartop 9y ago

Pretty sure Amazon has the resources to: 1. Only stock counterfeit-prone items verifiably sourced from the real manufacturer, e.g. Apple, LV, Bose, etc. 2. Stop commingling inventory from multiple sources, which totally prevents any crowd-sourced detection of counterfeit sellers. 3. Increase manpower devoted counterfeit detection and enforcement. This could even include randomly pulling items from inventory and testing/inspecting them. 4. Detect obviously fake items, such as 1 TB microSD cards priced at $10. This can done through pre-listing manual reviews plus automation. 5. Give users obvious ways to signal the mothership about counterfeits, and take action on the signals. 6. etc. In short there's all kinds of stuff a company with the resources of Amazon can do to solve this problem. The fact that they're doing nothing is telling.