Amazon site awash with counterfeit goods despite crackdown
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#3NTMD)
Guardian investigation finds knockoff items and used goods sold as new on Marketplace
Amazon is rife with potentially dangerous counterfeits and other knockoff goods despite years of attempts to crackdown on mis-selling on its platform, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
The global internet giant, which this week revealed that its daily revenues had hit a record $550m (400m) a day, now spans a huge range of businesses from TV production to web hosting but faces an ongoing challenge to police its own online retail platform.
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