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Amazon Loses Huge Footwear Company Because Of Fake Products, a Problem It Denies Is Happening (cnbc.com)
Several sellers on Amazon had noted earlier this month that the platform is riddled with counterfeit products and that things have gotten worse after Chinese manufacturers were allowed to sell goods to the consumers in the United States. Amid the report, the German footwear company Birkenstock has announced it will no longer sell its sandals on Amazon. The company added that it will also ban any sales of its products by third-party sellers on Amazon, effectively making its products unavailable on the world's largest online store, according to a report on CNBC. From the report: "The Amazon marketplace, which operates as an 'open market,' creates an environment where we experience unacceptable business practices which we believe jeopardize our brand," Birkenstock USA CEO David Kahan wrote from the company's U.S. headquarters in Novato, California. "Policing this activity internally and in partnership with Amazon.com has proven impossible."
Society has rules, you don't have to agree with them, just follow them. There is a process to change them if you don't like them...
Unless you're a leftwing liberal, then you can riot, block roads, protest, or simply ignore the actual laws, and call anyone who complains a bigot, racist, homophobe ....
The problem is that we have accepted, in a large number of cases, ignoring laws we don't like, and people think that is how it is supposed to work for all laws. You cannot say we are going to ignore laws we don't like, and at the same time want people to uphold / follow laws we like, but they don't.
Besides, we now have a new class of laws, Laws that apply only to the little people, and don't apply to people with enough power and influence.
You can't have it both ways.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
And you forgot Dick Cheney outed an undercover CIA agent which helped to destroy our overseas intelligence operations because he was being politically vindictive. That is literally an act defined as treason.
You also failed to mention Bush hid tens of thousands of emails from FOIA requests because since he didn't open them they were never read and therefore not a record which can be accessed.
Nor did the Bush administration preserve hundreds of thousands of emails as required under federal law.
Didn't hear you whining about those felonies.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower