Every single consumer that bought a product from one of these third party sellers, or a matching product from Amazon, has been cheated out of several dollars. For each product, for each sale... that adds up to way more than $2.5 million.

And the funny part is that a few database queries could likely surface exactly who has been harmed, how many times, and a gross sale amount affected.

Easy proof for a class action?

That's not how we punish other crimes. We don't give serial killers 1 year in prison and set them loose because the killin' spree has ceased.

This is the part that surprised me most. So instead of the government making sure that the market is kept fair using taxation, the AG finances this function by extracting money for its own use from offenders? That seems fishy to me.