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There seems to be some natural law of Internet shopping that ensures that every "Specialized marketplace for X," will, once it becomes popular, inevitably devolve into a flood of thousands of sellers all reselling identical cheap junk from AliExpress for $0.99 + free shipping--to the point where it's impossible to find anything genuine or non-counterfeit.


Perhaps "Where it's easy to sell goods, it's easy to sell counterfeit goods"?


On the plus side, it should be exceptionally easy to identify since they probably don't have custom photos.


That works on day 1 of the crackdown, but not on day 15.


A magic number analysis of the images used in accounts would handle pretty much every duplicate found (which would highly hint at mass-reselling) unless the people got smart enough to figure it out and start jacking with the color palette.


Gresham's Law?




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