Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
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Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
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#2I mentally added the word time in the middle of the domain name and chuckled. It would be great if they did that, show that they still have a bit of humanity left over there
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#3They should start by investigating themselves for antitrust violations.
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#4They do this every six to twelve months:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106305
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19091852
It’s just platitudes so long as their interests are served by pretending the problem doesn’t exist.
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#5I just bought some gym shorts from Target for $20. Amazon had some for the same price, but numerous reviews with photos showed people were getting fakes. Fuck that. Target of all places seems more curated than Amazon.
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#6I wonder if they will solve the mystery of how executives either didn't know, or didn't do anything about it, for so many years even as it was widely reported. It might have been more appropriate to use a federal investigative body and start with whatever misconduct, or deficit of attention, has been enabling the counterfeiters to thrive on Amazon for years.
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#7I just bought some gym shorts from Target for $20. Amazon had some for the same price, but numerous reviews with photos showed people were getting fakes. Fuck that. Target of all places seems more curated than Amazon.
> Target of all places seems more curated than Amazon.
Isn’t this going to be true of any “pure” retailer? The nature of FBA and third-party sellers just means there will always be at least some percentage of fraud and so on that’s higher than “trick various people in the retailer to sell fake goods”.
Particularly as it’s much easier for insiders at a retailer to steal from their employer (and then resell via whatever means), I think the utility for “put fake goods on the shelf” at a retail shop is basically zero. I dunno, maybe you can trick/bribe the person near the start of the supply chain, but it wouldn’t take long for returns to pile up and an investigation to find “Jim and Sally colluded to sell fake gym shorts”.
Re: Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
#8They do this every six to twelve months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19091852 It’s just platitudes so long as their interests are served by pretending the problem doesn’t exist.
I thought it was a study committee to see how they can get a bigger cut.
Re: Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
#9They do this every six to twelve months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19091852 It’s just platitudes so long as their interests are served by pretending the problem doesn’t exist.
This goes beyond just words. Establishing a dedicated team to investigate / prosecute Counterfeiters is a solid step forward.
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#10I just bought some gym shorts from Target for $20. Amazon had some for the same price, but numerous reviews with photos showed people were getting fakes. Fuck that. Target of all places seems more curated than Amazon.
The more you focus and the more you curate, the more you can trust you're getting what you think you're getting and the more confidence you can have in the overall supply chain.
The tradeoff is selection and probably price--although for some large specialist retailers like B&H Photo you largely do get both price and a pretty good selection of products.
Amazon should at least better separate the products it largely has control over the provenance of and everything else. But a third party marketplace is always to be hit or miss in terms of what you get.