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

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250425/p2g/00m/0bu/047000c

59•resonious•3h ago

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laughing_man•2h ago

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

grugagag•1h ago

Hey, it’s a start. Maybe other suchs fines crop up allover.

openplatypus•1h ago

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.

wombat-man•1h ago

Yeah Amazon is my last stop these days.

terminalbraid•14m ago

You wish paltry fines of the equivalent of $250k USD were more common for infractions like this?

ilrwbwrkhv•46m ago

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.

2muchcoffeeman•5m ago

Amazon is often the most reliable shipping for me though. I just generally never get anything of real value from Amazon.

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