I don't think it's a tired excuse, I think it's a withering indictment of Amazon's complicity in selling counterfeit merchandise. It's not a difficult problem

I don't think it's a tired excuse, I think it's a withering indictment of Amazon's complicity in selling counterfeit merchandise. It's not a difficult problem to solve at all, Amazon simply chooses not to solve it because the upside is profit and the downside is mostly reputational which is hard to convert to a number on a spreadsheet, so for business purposes it might as well not exist.