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Amazon Japan ordered to pay 35M. yen for allowing listing of fakes

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133 points resonious | 3 comments | 26 Apr 25 04:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.616s | source
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openplatypus ◴[26 Apr 25 07:03 UTC] No.43801514[source]▶
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.

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1. terminalbraid ◴[26 Apr 25 08:21 UTC] No.43801832[source]▶
You wish paltry fines of the equivalent of $250k USD were more common for infractions like this?
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2. Zanfa ◴[26 Apr 25 09:20 UTC] No.43802086[source]▶
Not GP, but yeah, more frequent fines, e.g $250k USD per fake listing would likely motivate Amazon to do something about it.
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3. openplatypus ◴[26 Apr 25 13:44 UTC] No.43803567[source]▶
Exactly. I wish fines for selling fakes were more common.