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I don't understand how easy it could be to Google around a bit and find companies offering this service, but its seemingly impossible to stop at scale.

Employ a group of people to go undercover with these firms, who are purposefully violating your platforms TOS, and enact draconian measures against the brands your employees encounter.

The risk would quickly not be worth the reward.



> undercover with these firms, who are purposefully violating your platforms TOS

These “brands” are sometimes a few guys in a garage in China. Shut them down and they popup with a new name the next day, like whack-a-mole.


Yeah they just buy white label cheap commodities and will slap a new sticker on it if you “crack down” on them somehow


This is ridiculously obvious when searching for basically anything on Amazon now. There will be 10 identical product listings with 10 different brand names, many of which have reviews describing, and pictures showing, completely different products.




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