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Amazon has not done anything to combat counterfeit items on their website before now, I don't expect much from them now.

• Seenso 7y ago
  > Amazon has not done anything to combat counterfeit items on their website before now, I don't expect much from them now. I think they have, but their efforts are usually spastic and reactive, so they don't do much good. I remember during the eclipse a few years ago, they told everyone who bought eclipse glasses from them not to use them and refunded their money. There were lots of articles showing most of the ones being sold on Amazon were inadequate or had fake certification markings. Unfortunately, Amazon only took action a few days before the eclipse, after millions were sold and it was almost impossible to find alternatives.
• jrockway 7y ago
  Do we know that for a fact? Maybe they actually block 99.9% of counterfeits, but the volume is tremendous.
  • ADSSDA 7y ago
    Whatever they're doing it's not working. Nearly every "Amazon's Choice" that I see in search results is some counterfeit Chinese garbage.
• Reedx 7y ago
  Well, they've removed millions of products. From the article: "The company scans billions of price changes a week and has removed 530,000 offers and suspended 2,500 accounts because of coronavirus-related price gouging, he said. The company also removed millions of products that make unsupported claims about the coronavirus"