I bet it was like dealing with Amazon all over again.
- More of the man's hand and shirt cuff
- Seams on the front of the shirt and trousers
So, at least at first glance, it seems impossible for the left image to be a copy of the one on the right. Perhaps you had previously used a more zoomed-out version, and they copied that?
Amazon has no incentive to actually go after counterfeit goods, they get paid either way, so any team that would investigate counterfeit claims is a pure cost to them. Due to this they do the bare minimum to prevent further regulations being brought down that they would have to comply with.
How much is a ton of money in this case?
It seems like as a society we have given up on any manufacturing or making physical things outside of a few communist controlled territories. Seems very much like working as intended.... Play with fire, catch fire that's what you get.
Amazon is clearly selling counterfeit goods. If found guilty, they’d be facing a $15 million fine.
https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/selling-fakes-...
In this case the other listing isn't claiming to sell BeltBro, they are claiming to sell AAROMANO. The fact that they stole the copy etc is wrong but it sounds like a different problem. But there doesn't seem to be any misrepresentation or counterfeiting.
“This is genuinely scary. Photos, Yale locks, Fi, WiFi and Nest thermostat can all be poof gone because I made a silly YouTube comment? How is this not regulated?”
But, I’m not sure how to feel sorry for you should that happen. You played by the rules and got screwed over because big co doesn’t care about you.
See, we all have concerns like this about fairness, but what separates you from the op is they actually built something and brought it into the world.
sympathize with the case but is it really necessary to use this China/protectionist rhetoric in particular? A knockoff is a knockoff, that should be enough. The case doesn't get worse because it's Chinese or other Americans copying their stuff.
So, I hit up your site - and get a "Promotional Code Activated!" banner. I add the default (two) to my cart, and get hit on the next page with a "Would you like (more) fries with that" page next asking me to add two more.
You don't allow determining shipping costs up front, instead requiring me to fill out all my details OR use Paypal checkout first.
Only after going through the Paypal Checkout process do I discover that shipping is going to cost me USD$29 (I'm in Australia), so yeah - No, I bail on that.
Then I get a cart abandonment email - apparently scraped from Paypal Checkout - telling me the promotion code is going to expire, which is clearly not true since it's not personalised and apparently all I have to do even if it were going to expire based on some kind of cookie/whatever, would be to fire up a new browser session.
While I'm sympathetic to the problems with Amazon, the whole experience feels like a mixture of Daytime TV Home Shopping combined with door-to-door sales tactics. I'm just waiting for the followup email 24 hours later telling me if I order now I'll get a free set of steak knives.
I live in Israel and it's extremely hard to tell whether this website will charge me $5, $15, $29 or $50 for shipping. Or what level of shipping that would be (postal or private). Or if they even ship to my country at all, with so many websites not having a "where do you ship?" FAQ. (Or an "estimate shipping" button)
So to find out it's $50 plain mail shipping, or worse, they don't ship at all and still get a "please come back!" email was very annoying.
They are not selling the knock off, they are allowing the knock off merchant to use their marketplace.
Your remedies are with (assuming US based):
* Copyright enforcement via DMCA on your marketing info/photos etc
* Trademark enforcement via Customs and USPTO
* Design patent enforcement via Customs and USPTO
It's not Amazon here that is the issue, it's enforcement by the governmental authorities that are supposed to do that enforcement.
You'd have exactly the same problems if you were selling on etsy instead of amazon, or at a local weekend handicraft market.
I believe we could legislate and leverage the executive to force agreements but anything done will likely be an uphill battle with no end.
It is as sad as unsurprising that Amazon promotes this kind of behavior.
Best of luck to OP.
But Amazon (the marketplace) sells that stuff. So touch Amazon not China.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=belt+bro+men&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
You got bro belts for women, but where's my belt bro?
Thanks bruh
/brospeak seriously, did amazon take down your listing or did you? The belt bro for men seems gone?
Thanks to everyone’s feedback and help we were able to get them take down!
