Amazon and Ebay Opened Pandora's Box of Chinese Counterfeits
I&#x27;d like to clear up a few misconceptions here. I have a lot of experience in this space.<p>For starters, Amazon has very good policies that allow sellers to protect their IP and products. It&#x27;s very easy to remove fraudulent products from your listing.<p>The problem is that Amazon is a very complex platform to use, with a lot of rules and policies, so it seems to me that the sellers in the article, and many others, don&#x27;t quite know how to protect their ASINs. I would like to think that Amazon would do a little better to inform the sellers, but since so many are just starting, or are amateurs, there probably isn&#x27;t time to walk each one through.<p>Of course, RTMFD, as they are very clear on what is and isn&#x27;t allowed to be sold. For example, it is a clear and blatant violation of Amazon policy to drop-ship from overseas.<p>eBay and Amazon aren&#x27;t able to police everything. It is up to the sellers and buyers to report products that are knock-offs. As a buyer, I&#x27;ve closed down a few listings. As a seller, I&#x27;ve done the same, but mind that there is a complex war going on between sellers. Some sellers game the system by nuking your listing over fake violations, so there is a balance to all of this that is very difficult to maintain. Unfortunately, the world is full of jerks, so if it was a blind trust, we&#x27;d be in a much worse position.<p>Anyways, please read through ALL the policies of Amazon and eBay before making assumptions about what is right and wrong. What is in this article and in many of these comments are very wrong.