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by TheKarateKid 2069 days ago
Probably because it only serves to hurt their sales.

Amazon has also become almost as bad as Alibaba in allowing counterfeit and knockoff items to be sold openly.

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At least with Alibaba you're going right to the source and not paying some reseller's markup or for the 'free' Prime shipping that just gets baked into prices on Amazon.
Wouldn’t it push people to higher cost and higher margin products (locally made or from more ethical sources) and thereby increase their profits? Seems to me like you could make a strong case for it