Amazon JP is not a "gleaming spire", but I do agree it's not nearly as bad as the horror stories of counterfeiting I keep reading about Amazon US. However, the

Amazon JP is not a "gleaming spire", but I do agree it's not nearly as bad as the horror stories of counterfeiting I keep reading about Amazon US. However, there is still lots and lots of cheap Chinese junk here, but that's pretty easy to discern by just looking at the brand name. As the other poster here said about the UK version, "I get all the 1000 variations on the same shit product with ridiculous brand names on Amazon [JP]." The other problem with Amazon JP is that returns are not usually free, unless there's a real problem; it's not nearly as easy and free to return stuff as Amazon US.