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What prevents a counterfeiter from copying the barcode?
by petilon 8y ago
What prevents a counterfeiter from copying the barcode?
- Godel_unicode 8y agoThese are GUIDs, not SKUs. If two customers get the same ID, one is counterfeit.
- craftyguy 8y agoThat does nothing to prevent the first one from being counterfeit, allowing many counterfeits with 'valid' guids to be accepted if they arrive sooner.
- Godel_unicode 8y ago"nothing" Is overstating it. While this doesn't guarantee that the legit item gets to the customer, I feel confident that the real seller will usually win that race. In order for the counterfeiter to win, the counterfeiter would have to get the fake item with the real number into an Amazon warehouse before the real item arrived. Add to this the fact that the vendor of the real item will be told their item was rejected as dupe, and there's nothing I can see in the program documentation requiring the tags to be sequential, and this raises the bar quite a bit.
- snaky 8y agoCounter for how many times the barcode had been checked.
- londons_explore 8y agoYes, but make 5 fakes with each real product barcode, then intermingle them, and there will still be no way to seperate the real ones from the fakes.
- snaky 8y agoTo do that, for every 5 fakes you make you need to buy 1 genuine product - to copy the code from it. That's not profitable this way.
- ac29 8y agoWhy would Amazon even receive them into inventory if the initial scan says the product was already sold (assuming that a product must be purchased to get a valid code to copy)?