December 18, 2024

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Amazon helps counterfeit Bird Feeders Destroy the Legit One

From American Public Media’s Marketplace

” In 2016, Trisha Torres, vice president of a small Rhode Island-based company, received a phone call from a customer.

Her company, Aspects, makes bird feeders, and this customer had bought what Amazon had listed as an “Aspects” hummingbird feeder.”

You can guess what happened.  The person had bought a counterfeit and was asking the person who made the real thing to deal with a warranty issue.

You can read or listen to it here.