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> Excel Plan reported the situation and requested Amazon take appropriate action, but the page listing the genuine oximeter was deleted and the company was unable to sell it, according to the suit.

How very nice and kind of Amazon.

Less than a quarter million dollars. That might be enough to motivate your local car wash, but Amazon Japan?

I wish this was more common.

I rarely, like once every 6 months, look for some obscure thing on Amazon. First thing I do after finding products, I research which one of the listing has any chance of not being a fake/dud/scam.

I can't imagine buying anything of value on Amazon.

Yes I hated parallel imports so much. Some sellers are open about it but many would include fake receipts along fake products to show they were purchased in USA or whatnot. What’s shocking is in Japan this is pretty new / rare (not Amazon fucking up supply chain /comingling) but generally ordering A and getting a fake itself.

There is a lot of ecomm change happening now in Japan with the rise of Mercari, junk items selling more than new / real (makes no sense) etc.

Pre pandemic, it was a dream to order online in Japan. No fakes, low prices, great quality.

It's not uncommon to see pirated, uncensored anime character dakimakura covers and books being sold on Amazon Japan.

It's unfortunate that legal systems worldwide haven't figured out a better way to deal with the committing-crime-at-scale mentality we see out of a lot of Big Tech.

35M yen to a brand or two here or there when they lose in court is nothing for them.

Walmart etc big retailers do lots of sketchy stuff, house label products, and squeeze suppliers.. but you don't see blatant counterfeit good sales.

Amazon and other "online marketplace" types want to have it both ways - collecting obscene fees to list, stock and ship your goods.. while taking no responsibility or risk. They have turned the retail model on its head where they win either way as they are just taking fees on 3rd parties taking the risks, inverting the supplier-retailer relationship.

244 thousand dollars is really nothing though for Amazon JP

That’s not very much money. It probably cost Amazon more to cut the check.

I stopped using Amazon around 2015. I don't want to buy goods from AliExpress with extra steps so I just directly buy from there. And if I need something urgently I go to a local store.