Fake and dangerous kids products are turning up for sale on Amazon

FTFA: Under current US case law, Amazon is not liable when third-party products sold on its site directly infringe on intellectual property or have safety defects. The liability lies with the third-party seller. This is fundamentally different from how the law treats brick-and-mortar retailers like Target (TGT) or Walmart (WMT) or even your corner grocery.

Attn Congress: Fix this.

Amusingly I recently bought something from Jet (owned by Walmart) because the listing for the item on Amazon had a series of oddities suggesting it was counterfeit. The next day it showed up at my door...from an Amazon courier. Evidently brick-and-mortar retailers are themselves just drop-shipping from Amazon.

I like the Love to Dream swaddle, and recommended it to a friend. They said the zipper broke the first time they used it. Looks like they probably got a fake one. What a nightmare.

This is the problem: "According to Amazon's 2018 annual report, 58% of Amazon's sales came from its millions of third-party sellers, many of whom ship directly to consumers."