You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
I don&#x27;t care if people sell clean, safe, reasonable things that are gleaned from a dumpster.  That&#x27;s waste reduction and a net good.<p>What I hate are all the low quality and fraudulent items on Amazon (It&#x27;s not quite as bad as Ali Express, yet--Ali Express also happens to sell everything ever conceived and people generally accept that a certain portion of things are counterfeit, Amazon pretends to enforce quality.)<p>This is the opening that Sears should have been waiting for.  They used to provide the service of selling a curated selection of pretty much anything you would need.  Back in the day they had 3 of everything, you needed a widget, you could go to Sears by buy the &quot;good&quot;, &quot;better&quot;, or &quot;best&quot; version of that thing at a competitive price.<p>Sears, if it were managed worth a damn, could do that.  They still have stores all over the place to serve as distributed warehouses, show-rooms and customer service centers.<p>Maybe Target will figure this out.  I don&#x27;t think Amazon will.  The closest Amazon has come to addressing this is making their own house brand (a la Kenmore).  Which is fine, I guess, if you don&#x27;t have congress calling you a monopoly.  If anything is going to bring Amazon down a peg, it is going to be the ingenuity of fraudulent sellers outstripping the ingenuity of their anti-fraud systems and policies.