<story><title>Amazon&apos;s Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-problem-is-getting-worse.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syshum</author><text>This will not always save you. If a company uses the &amp;quot;Fulfilled by Amazon&amp;quot; service they ship their stuff to amazon and it is co mingled with all of the other SKU&amp;#x27;s purporting to be the same item, including Amazons own stock</text></item><item><author>macNchz</author><text>This has become a frustrating part of shopping on Amazon, to the point that I typically filter to only show things sold by Amazon themselves. Too many of the marketplace items are fake crap with paid-for reviews. Since they&amp;#x27;re mixed in together by default, the effort in trying to discern good from bad makes for a pretty crummy experience overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manyxcxi</author><text>Exactly this. The article mentions that they basically take all the same products and put them together. So seller B&amp;#x27;s fake item may be sold as seller A&amp;#x27;s real item and seller A gets blamed for their fake stuff.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s gotten so bad with certain groups of items I don&amp;#x27;t even try. Sunglasses, handbags, all the usual stuff you&amp;#x27;d expect.&lt;p&gt;My anecdote: I like gold colored Ray-Ban aviators with a brown or dark polarized lens. The two stores near me didn&amp;#x27;t have them in stock, I couldn&amp;#x27;t find my old pair and I was leaving for a week long motorcycle ride in two days. I ordered them up and immediately knew they were fake. They were too light, the nose pads weren&amp;#x27;t right, all the usual tells. I returned them 3 different times until I just cancelled.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon&apos;s Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-problem-is-getting-worse.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syshum</author><text>This will not always save you. If a company uses the &amp;quot;Fulfilled by Amazon&amp;quot; service they ship their stuff to amazon and it is co mingled with all of the other SKU&amp;#x27;s purporting to be the same item, including Amazons own stock</text></item><item><author>macNchz</author><text>This has become a frustrating part of shopping on Amazon, to the point that I typically filter to only show things sold by Amazon themselves. Too many of the marketplace items are fake crap with paid-for reviews. Since they&amp;#x27;re mixed in together by default, the effort in trying to discern good from bad makes for a pretty crummy experience overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisper</author><text>He said sold by Amazon. There are two ways: Fulfilled by Amazon or Sold and Shipped by Amazon. I am pretty sure he is talking about the latter. With the latter, Amazon is actually selling the item not some 3rd party. With Fulfilled by Amazon, Amazon only ships it to you, but the 3rd party is selling. It is pretty clear on the website.</text></comment>