Even the merchant name is bullshit on Amazon.
Try finding Apple headphones and see how many are sold by merchants named "Apple".
Amazon has to know that product is not actually being sold by Apple, yet they allow the counterfeiting to continue.
There are other marketplaces that offer a much higher quality guarantee than Amazon. Shop there instead.
Amazon is a $1 trillion dollar company. It’s not some guy selling things out of the trunk of his car. It should be reasonable for me to assume buying something there is safe.
Harmful is subjective. Don't ban my plastic bags or straws.
Apparently in your world, it's perfectly okay for Joe Johnson to create an Amazon merchant account called "Apple" and sell me and sell me defective products under the Apple label.
The only thing we should ever assume is that a company has policies and will honor those policies as required by law.
Here's Amazon's policy on guarantee. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... There is no mention of safety.
Here's Amazon's policy on safety. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... There is no guarantee associated with it.
They are a trillion-dollar company, but what we're observing is that the market isn't hyper-thirsty for safety guarantees and is willing to accept their current climate for service convenience. Other stores will let you make a different safety-convenience tradeoff.