> It’s not like they are randomly tossing all of the same item into a random bin and doesn’t know whose is whose. Tell this to my buddy who had his card game c

> It’s not like they are randomly tossing all of the same item into a random bin and doesn’t know whose is whose. Tell this to my buddy who had his card game counterfeited about 3 years ago. He was getting a lot of complaints about counterfeit products, so he ordered a few and got a few duds. He ended up having to recall all of his inventory from Amazon, and he found out that a fairly sizable percentage was counterfeit (~20%... can't remember the exact number). According to him, Amazon was literally "tossing all of the same item into a random bin and [didn't] know whose [was] whose". The solution he ended up going with was paying Amazon extra to separate his items from other potential sellers of his own product. IIRC, he also set up (paid for?) the right to be the sole distributor for new items. I can't remember if he took those actions concurrently or sequentially, but he decided it was cheaper to do both rather than deal with counterfeits.