Comment by nobrains

The article talks about how counterfeits benefit Amazon, but its not the full picture. There is a negative affect of counterfiets on Amazon as well, and that is (1) reputation (customers not trusting Amazon anymore as a site that has honest opinions) (2) competition (other online retailers growing in the trusted-products-selling business) and (3) reliance on one country only (if this continues, and Amazon makes short term profits because of it, they will end of becoming a front end for china manufacturers only, risking their supply line. With one rule, china can ban Chinese products to be sold via Amazon, and Amazon can go broke). So it is in Amazon's interest to solve this problem, and not focus on the short term gains, but I wonder why they are not making any moves to solve this? That's the weird part.