Site that sells lots of patent-infringed tools added to notorious list

[jeffinsgf]

My Verizon home site (where I get my emails) routinely shows display adds for Banggood and Aliexpress plus other that make knockoffs of clothing.  Verizon (and others that carry their ads) deserve part of the blame.

There's the rub. I have a hard time believing that Amazon, eBay and Facebook don't know who they're getting in bed with.

 

[Cheese]

By and large, companies can no longer play intellectual property whack-a-mole effectively. Frankly - it's consumers that have the power to reward or discourage behaviour.

Amen Rob

Customers can choose to be part of the solution or be part of the problem…I know what direction my compass points.

 

[kurtww]

My Verizon home site (where I get my emails) routinely shows display adds for Banggood and Aliexpress plus other that make knockoffs of clothing.  Verizon (and others that carry their ads) deserve part of the blame.

It's almost certainly not Verizon choosing those ads, it's a third party (i.e. Google) that displays the ads targeted to your interest. The ad marketplace is fully automated these days. They have general guidelines on whose ads they will accept, but not someone saying "I like this site that sells cheap Chinese tools, let's promote them." They won't knowingly display ads for actual scam sites, but ethical grey areas like this don't register. And yes, I think that's part of the problem.

 

[Bob D.]

My Verizon home site (where I get my emails) routinely shows display adds for Banggood and Aliexpress plus other that make knockoffs of clothing.  Verizon (and others that carry their ads) deserve part of the blame.

There's the rub. I have a hard time believing that Amazon, eBay and Facebook don't know who they're getting in bed with.

Agree, I think they are guilty to some degree too, but there is no law or regulation which assigns any responsibility to them I guess.

 

[leakyroof]

I heard a story one night at a dinner with a Former CFO of Sara Lee about how they tried and tried to stamp out Counterfeit Items in Countries, it was a never ending battle as Rob Lee alluded to. Within 2 weeks a new packaging of an item was already copied and being sold, defeating the redesign that the Company had come up with to try and slow the Counterfeiters from copying the newest marketing/packaging in the first place.  These days it's probably even faster of a cycle than it was when she was CFO.... [sad] [sad] [sad]