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Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem

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post #96

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>they determined that the item was counterfeit and because Amazon is not one of their authorized resellers Amazon is an authorized retailer of Stanley 1913 products. They determined that the item was counterfeit because you did not purchase it from Amazon.com you purchased it via Amazon.com from a third-party. My Amazon account was created in 1998 and since 2008-ish I have barely entered any physical stores due to me…

> that has been fulfilled by a third party without my knowledge can be counted on zero fingers. Since they commingle products at the warehouse level and handle *actual* fulfillment at the SKU level and not the vendor level - how do you know this? At the warehouse there's a bin of widgets that are all supposedly the same. Regardless of who the vendor is purported to be when you buy it, if it's coming from that warehou…

> Since they commingle products at the warehouse level

They do not. Most products are tracked using an FNSKU that identifies each seller.

Re: Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem

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Louis Rossmann just released a video on this about Toshiba hard disks [1]. I canceled my Prime account in 2018, after my last online order for memory. Now, I only purchase in-person from large vendors with direct-from-manufacturer custody [this costs more, obviously]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeUNC7z5MM0

Funny, one of the preroll ads on the video was one of those Chinese (I presume - the robot voiceover was in my native tongue though) scam ads for a product, with a big QR code with viewer discount.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use

>> The user does nothing to suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder. HP would say that "compatible with HP printers" goes well beyond nominative. Per HP documentation, HP printers are only compatible with HP-licensed ink. So anyone saying "compatible with HP" is incorrectly stating they are licensed by HP. Try selling a cupholder, or a cup, that is "compatible with Ferrari" and you should expect la…

Visit your local (American) drugstore. Next to each branded item will be a store brand version with the text “compare to $BRAND”
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