Vendor not manufacturer
OTOH can you tell a fake Gates belt from a real one ?
A warehouse I used to manage despatched stuff sold via Ammozone
The vendor was just a bank account number
He sent the stuff to us & we despatched it , under many different company names for different prices .
I know who Jacks are, I know who Barrets are
I know who eReplacement parts are
But who is "DELONG1" or "Henkeyi" or "Tinsaen" or "OSD-Parts" or "
Honoson" or "HuiZeKaiUS" or "
CMOODS" or..........
These are the first 6 nameless faceless vendors who came up when I searched for "lawn Mower Belts"
Do any of them actually know what they are selling ?
Amazon is just the platform, like your local church or school is the platform when they have a car boot / trash & treasure sale
Amazon in most cases is not the vendor
The vendor is found at the right side listed as "sold by"
So you buy a container full of fake Gates belts . get the container sent to Ammozone & then either write the add yourself or get Ammozone to do the listing for you ( additional fees apply)
Ammozone are not required to check the products are real because they are just the platform and in some cases also provide the logistics.
No checks anywhere apart from the bank account where the fees are drawn from exists & Ammozone can make withdrawls to cover the listing & despatch fees .
You could not set up a business to sell fake / stolen goods any better than this .
When your container is all sold, you close the Ammozone account , shift the money to an off shore account that is not trackable or recoverable by US authorities and of course can not be found when it is time to pay the taxes .
Freddy the fence would be salivating over such a system to flog off his stolen goods
And Evilpay is exactly the same .
The gutless government will not regulate either of them because they are both very wealthy companies and of course Bezos is a national hero in the USA .
The only difference between the two of them is Ammozone also had a warehousing / logistics side which makes it harder to scam people by selling products that do not exist .
And you can not contact any of the "vendors" directly
You can not do a Google street view search to see what is at the address because there is none because most of the vendors are just some one in a dunny with a computer, ordering rubbish & getting it sent to Ammozone .
The Mafia could not have done it better