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Amazon also has its own brand of products so people may be incentivized to buy Amazon-branded products over a sea of look-alikes.

• munk-a 7y ago
  Those products are often just white labeled items purchased from various suppliers - there is no guarantee of quality. And, while I think they're probably policing these a bit closer, I'm sure you could find a counterfeit or two.
  • r00fus 7y ago
    Yes but the perception is that the Amazon brand is "better" somehow - and it creates a perverse incentive for Amazon to NGAF about counterfeiters. Every time I buy on Amazon I have to use Fakespot to get something decent. For some things that's the best way to go, but it's a huge PITA, and I'm to the point where going to the local mall/outlet is actually less work now.
    • munk-a 7y ago
      Absolutely - I didn't mean to indicate that these products were of a high quality, more to disabuse the OP of that perception. Something being the Amazon brand is absolutely no guarantee. I wonder if we might actually take some insight from white-labeling in how to handle this... how is President's Choice held to account when a can contains contaminated food? Do they get to defer any liability on the original manufacturer or by white labeling have they accepted all the liability where the customer is concerned?