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Fake Bey Concerns? - SadVac22 - Jan. 15, 2025
ive just today (Jan 15, 2025) learned that I've been playing with fake beyblades for YEARS!
is anybody else concerned as to how these things get onto the market in the first place? don't people like Amazon have to do background checks and stuff?
not to mention its morally wrong! they are actively poisoning kids!
im not the only one, right?
for those who are curious, the set I got was a Storm Gyro "special edition" set with fake gold beys.
RE: Fake Bey Concerns? - MagikHorse - Jan. 26, 2025
As someone who used to work at Amazon, they're basically a fancy third-party. They will pull things from their site if they have a reason to believe it goes against the law or otherwise is excessively dangerous, but they can't do that on their own in most cases because you can't realistically check everything.
Think about it for a minute. They sell millions of different items from all kinds of markets and from pretty much every country that exports things. In order to actually make such a call they'd either need to thoroughly test every single product to ensure quality and workmanship or at a minimum pour in hours of research so whoever is making the call can actually learn enough about this one random product to be able to say whether it's safe or not. If it was just one or two things that's doable, but not when you have millions of things! Amazon cannot possibly check every brand and product that exists on their site, it's just too many things that would take too many hours to do. Amazon, in the ability to sell this many things, is necessarily blind to these problems without someone to report issues to them.
Like, my current job is in Inventory/Quality Control at another company, so my job is to inspect tables, chairs, doormats, e.t.c. to see if they match our site. There it doesn't take long since I already know the brands and have full information to work with, but Amazon doesn't have that luxury. they have to research and learn about them first, which makes it take so much longer.
Yes, it sucks, but Amazon isn't exactly the bad guy here. Just let them know there's problems and they'll look into it, but that's all you can do. In general fake Amazon listings tend to be obvious because the brands are way off (not Hasbro, Takara Tomy, Young Toys, or otherwise. Some are under a generic "Beyblade" branding, these can be real if they have proper brand markings), are of releases that didn't exist (e.g. most metal plated/excessively gold beys, metal coat blue KnightShield, e.t.c.), or have particular words or phrases on their box where they don't belong ("Gyro", "emitter", and a few other words are common Chinese mistranslations that show up on their packaging a lot).