Article 5Q7GK We bought gadgets from Amazon’s banned brands and it was a piece of cake

We bought gadgets from Amazon’s banned brands and it was a piece of cake

by
Sean Hollister
from The Verge on (#5Q7GK)
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If you're a reputable Chinese gadget manufacturer with millions of dollars at stake because Amazon banned your ass for inflating user reviews... do you roll over? File a lawsuit? Or change a single letter in your name and try to sneak back onto Amazon anyhow?

It sure seems like Sunvalley, parent company of the popular RavPower, Vava and TaoTronics brands, chose door number three.

We recently spotted all three banned brands back on the Amazon storefront under the flimsiest of disguises: Vava had changed its name to Vav," TaoTronics became Taotronic," and RavPower was simply Rav." We took screenshots for posterity:

They're not the only ones, either. Banned brand Choetech didn't even need...

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