People have been complaining for a long time now that Amazon is hard to trust because of how many counterfeit/knockoff items get mixed in among genuine ones in

People have been complaining for a long time now that Amazon is hard to trust because of how many counterfeit/knockoff items get mixed in among genuine ones in their warehouses. There was even a guy who lost his Global Entry status (trusted traveler program run by US Customs) because, unknown to him, he'd been thrown under the bus when a suitcase he ordered from Amazon was seized at the border for being a counterfeit: https://lifehacker.com/your-amazon-order-might-lock-you-out-of-trusted-travele-1821964978 https://lifehacker.com/your-amazon-order-might-lock-you-out-... Amazon itself tends to keep quiet about this, but consensus in the various stories is that their system's set up to make it hard to know the origin of particular items, or to keep third-party (and potentially counterfeit) items separate from ones sourced direct from the manufacturer.