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In the UK the government Trading Standards Office is supposed to investigate.

However, they fine and imprison small businesses and individuals, but just publish "warnings" when it's Amazon or Ebay.

https://www.nationaltradingstandards.uk/news/online-shoppers...

https://www.nationaltradingstandards.uk/news/archive-2022/

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Those Chinese sellers will DDoS any investigation.

It only costs a few bucks to register as a seller, they bulk register thousands of sellers under different names. They will exploit any loophole under environment filter pressure.

It's not even necessarily chinese sellers. Often it's UK sellers drop shipping aliexpress items as a get rich quick scheme

> UK sellers drop shipping aliexpress items

Hustler's University 2.0 by The Top G - Andrew Tate ... Drop shipping is lesson #1, how to buy lambo with all the drop shipping $$$s is lesson #2.

You'd be surprised how many there are though. It's often quite easy to trace the seller using the Companies House website which now allows free company lookups. The companies are often held by a chain of UK based shell companies and agents ultimately leading to a random virtual office in Hong Kong.

The legislation should be against Amazon.

If Trading Standards raid Tesco and find an illegal product, they take action against Tesco for selling it.

Ah, but you see, that's completely different! Tesco, after all, is very clearly the seller in those cases, while you can clearly see by these 4723 pages of densely-worded legalese that when an item on Amazon is coming from a third-party seller, it is entirely their responsibility, a fact which is absolutely obvious and every reasonable buyer knows!!!

(/s, in case it wasn't obvious)

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