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by wlesieutre 3040 days ago
It's worse than that, the authentic name-brand listing can still ship scammy clones instead because Amazon aggregates the listing from multiple sellers and pretends they're all the same thing

Previous discussion including some firsthand experience from sellers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13926015
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dabernathy89 3040 days ago
Yep. Just a couple weeks ago we bought Chemex coffee filters - the "Amazon's Choice" ones! We got a counterfeit that didn't even try to replicate the actual product (it was just sheets of tissue paper in the completely wrong shape). Looking at the reviews, we weren't the only ones who got these either.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017OFOP68/ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_c_Yo...

They've apparently since taken off the "Amazon's Choice" label here.

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camus2 3040 days ago
> It's worse than that, the authentic name-brand listing can still ship scammy clones instead because Amazon aggregates the listing from multiple sellers and pretends they're all the same thing

It's called fraud. Some people here call it "scaling" but it's just good old fraud at scale.

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