Pick your favorite designer perfume/cologne and look at the reviews on Amazon. (For example, Creed Aventus [1]). A large percentage will say "fake".
I can't believe any trademarked brand would sell on Amazon, given they do not care to control their supply chain. It's a lose-lose: unhappy customers getting ripped off, and name brands getting disappointed customers of their faked products.
Reviewers apparently even complained about fakes of this product[1].
I guess the margin must be immense, when you can have a knock-off manufactured for a couple bucks and then sell it for "half price" compared to the original.
Your "savings" won't lead to a happy kitchen experience, though.
I believe you're right. But that makes me really wonder why any pimply faced teenager in Kentucky, who downloads a dozen songs illegally gets the full hammer of the law crushed on him, but Amazon can get away as a mass distributor of fake goods.
I wonder if they're more careful in Italy or France, since those countries take a very dim view on fakes, entities that sell them and even buyers.
Buying knock-offs in Italy can cost you a fine of EUR 7'000[1]
I can't believe any trademarked brand would sell on Amazon, given they do not care to control their supply chain. It's a lose-lose: unhappy customers getting ripped off, and name brands getting disappointed customers of their faked products.
1. https://www.amazon.com/Creed-Aventus-Parfum-Spray-Ounce/dp/B...