If you have a brick and mortar store and you repeatedly sell counterfeit goods, you'll be repeatedly raided and probably shut down by some authority.
It's strange (ok, not really, and not surprising) that one of the biggest, richest, smartest companies is given a pass on following the same rules that little people have to follow.
Amazon has no legitimate excuse, period. And if Bezos is the high performing micromanager that we've read about, then it's a certainty that he knows that they are flagrantly selling (or facilitating the sale of) counterfeit goods.
Let's put this a different way: If some of the products on Amazon were known to be hollow shells filled with drugs, you can bet that Amazon would suddenly become capable of identifying and preventing the sale of illegal products.
It's strange (ok, not really, and not surprising) that one of the biggest, richest, smartest companies is given a pass on following the same rules that little people have to follow.
Amazon has no legitimate excuse, period. And if Bezos is the high performing micromanager that we've read about, then it's a certainty that he knows that they are flagrantly selling (or facilitating the sale of) counterfeit goods.
Let's put this a different way: If some of the products on Amazon were known to be hollow shells filled with drugs, you can bet that Amazon would suddenly become capable of identifying and preventing the sale of illegal products.