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Mysterious. "80 companies were sued in the past 12 months". Where did the new counterfeit items come from? Is someone making them and feeding them into these

Mysterious. "80 companies were sued in the past 12 months". Where did the new counterfeit items come from? Is someone making them and feeding them into these guy's pipeline? How does that happen? How were there enough counterfeits to sue 10 companies a month? What did the purchase history look like for his last buyer of a new "the mentalist"? Did the author mean to imply that Amazon might have shipped a forged copy that Amazon procured? Why is the tone of the article so glib? Why was it posted on a site like that, and where is the follow up, now that it's a year later? And whats with his next article about selling xbox games in June I'm a cynic and conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but wonder if this tribe of amazon merchants found a source for "new" DVDs that was too good to be true, and looked the other way while passing them to amazon. A more outlandish theory would be that the rights holders set these guys up to destroy huge volumes of used merchandise.

anentropic 13y ago
"A more outlandish theory would be that the rights holders set these guys up to destroy huge volumes of used merchandise." My first thought when reading the OP was that this is what probably actually just happened
jseliger 13y ago
I'm a cynic and conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but wonder if this tribe of amazon merchants found a source for "new" DVDs that was too good to be true, and looked the other way while passing them to amazon. Your cynicism may or may not be justified in this particular case, but as a general principle it's not a great idea to be an Amazon supplier. It's too easy for Amazon to say "screw you" or for buyers to scam you, as I discovered the proverbial hard way: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/is-amazon-coms-marketplace-encouraging-buyers-to-scam-sellers-by-filing-a-refund-claim http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/is-amazon-coms-mark... .

anentropic 13y ago

"A more outlandish theory would be that the rights holders set these guys up to destroy huge volumes of used merchandise." My first thought when reading the OP was that this is what probably actually just happened

jseliger 13y ago

I'm a cynic and conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but wonder if this tribe of amazon merchants found a source for "new" DVDs that was too good to be true, and looked the other way while passing them to amazon. Your cynicism may or may not be justified in this particular case, but as a general principle it's not a great idea to be an Amazon supplier. It's too easy for Amazon to say "screw you" or for buyers to scam you, as I discovered the proverbial hard way: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/is-amazon-coms-marketplace-encouraging-buyers-to-scam-sellers-by-filing-a-refund-claim http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/is-amazon-coms-mark... .