Does Siemens or GE or any company with assets and a reputation longer than 5 years sell such a fuse? That would be an example of a market mechanism that doesn’t stop Amazon from selling it, but would help prevent savvy buyers from purchasing it.
What happened on Amazon is that items advertised as being sold by Amazon itself wouid turn out to be Chinese counterfeits. You could order a thingamajig made by Siemens and get something with the name “Siemens” on it that wasn’t actually made by Siemens.
This is what I’ve heard that Amazon did, and I don’t know whether or not they still do:
Amazon has a “Fulfilled by Amazon” service that third party sellers can use, in which they ship products to Amazon, and when someone orders the product from that seller, Amazon will then ship them the product. However, the Amazon warehouse doesn’t keep track of which seller sent in which item: if there are multiple sellers that use Fulfilled by Amazon to sell a Siemens Thingamajig, they all get marked with the same ID number and put in the same bin. If Amazon itself also sells Siemens Thingamajigs directly, its own stock gets put in the bin with the ones from third party sellers. So, if a third party seller opts to use “Fulfilled by Amazon” and ships Amazon a counterfeit Siemens Thingamajig, someone ordering a Siemens Thingamajig from Amazon directly could end up with the counterfeit that the third party seller had put up for sale.
What happened on Amazon is that items advertised as being sold by Amazon itself wouid turn out to be Chinese counterfeits. You could order a thingamajig made by Siemens and get something with the name “Siemens” on it that wasn’t actually made by Siemens.
This is what I’ve heard that Amazon did, and I don’t know whether or not they still do:
Amazon has a “Fulfilled by Amazon” service that third party sellers can use, in which they ship products to Amazon, and when someone orders the product from that seller, Amazon will then ship them the product. However, the Amazon warehouse doesn’t keep track of which seller sent in which item: if there are multiple sellers that use Fulfilled by Amazon to sell a Siemens Thingamajig, they all get marked with the same ID number and put in the same bin. If Amazon itself also sells Siemens Thingamajigs directly, its own stock gets put in the bin with the ones from third party sellers. So, if a third party seller opts to use “Fulfilled by Amazon” and ships Amazon a counterfeit Siemens Thingamajig, someone ordering a Siemens Thingamajig from Amazon directly could end up with the counterfeit that the third party seller had put up for sale.
And yeah, manufacturers have been suing Amazon over this.