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When I see replies like this, I am made aware that some people see the world dramatically different from me. To me, this is about as close to just directly copying everything as you can get. To point out the seams is to lose the forest for the trees.

Genuine question, does copying to you mean that it has to be exact? Like, if there are small, meaningless differences, then it's not copying?

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No, he means that the OP has a cropped version of the image and the “counterfeiter” has an uncropped version of the same image.

If the counterfeiter really stole the images how could he have a less cropped version.

Maybe Amazon also sees things like this and decided they can’t tell who stole from whom.

I don’t that is the case here but it is possible Amazon gets all sorts of notices like this from people who aren’t as genuine and may be lying to remove a competitor.

I agree here. This isn't a case where someone took a similar picture. The pictures are identical except OPs is more cropped than the competitor.

This is similar to a common practice in the art world where you photograph the borders of a painting before framing it. If there's ever any doubt about whether the painting was swapped for a forgerie, just look at the photos of the borders and compare them.

I'd have similar questions if I was on the Amazon team receiving this complaint.

I think it's plausible that the Chinese cloners never bought the original product but instead hacked his server that had all the photos and schematics to produce the product on their own. No, I don't have any evidence for that being the case, but I think it possible with this being the direct method counterfeit groups use to knock off most things from Western countries.

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