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It sounds like Facebook Marketplace. I bought counterfeit AirPods Max. They showed up as legitimate in the phone so I thought they were good, but they were fake. Before I realized what happened the seller blocked me, which apparently prevents leaving feedback. I contacted Facebook about the fraud that went into a black hole.

I had found someone else scammed by the same seller and I was annoyed enough to go to the police. The police called it a civil matter and refused to do anything. Obviously I didn’t have the seller’s real name so I couldn’t pursue that angle. I saw from another Facebook account that the seller is still hawking counterfeit goods. So, I guess that’s effectively legal.



Sale of counterfeit goods is a crime in most jurisdictions, it's just that the police are useless in all of them.


> The police called it a civil matter and refused to do anything.

You're a "little guy". You're not "business", "landlord", or government".. So your actual rights don't matter.

Put it differently, the very pigs who are hired to do "law and order" explicitly told you that your rights don't matter.




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