Yeah, "shipped and sold by Amazon.com" was essentially selling and shipping millions of dollars of fully counterfeit products under this program for years. If a small vendor does something like this, they'd have the fed kicking down their door after tens of thousands.

I personally received counterfeit and tampered products "shipped and sold by Amazon.com" on half a dozen occasions. Even as recently as the last two months.

>[…] Jeff Bezos received your email and asked me to respond on his behalf. […]

>If an item is shipped and sold by Amazon[dot]com it will not be commingled with any other inventory.

>Best regards, […]

>Executive Customer Relations

-Amazon, 2015

Was this a lie or did it change?

I have and I quit Amazon years ago. Probably have not used my account in nearly a decade.

I had always thought they must be the biggest distributor of counterfeit products in the history of the country.

It was one of those things that I couldn’t explain, and just wrote off before it broke my brain.