by Mike Duff | Feb 15, 2023 | Retail Articles
EBay has acquired 3PM Shield LLC, a provider of advanced AI-based marketplace compliance solutions, to enhance the e-tailer’s fraud monitoring solutions. 3PM Shield will provide new technology developed to prevent the sale of counterfeit items, unsafe products and...
by Mike Duff | Dec 19, 2022 | Retail Articles
A report released by the National Retail Federation and Appriss Retail indicates that consumers will return about $816 billion worth of retail merchandise purchased in 2022, but added that the average rate of return has remained just about flat at 16.5% versus 16.6%...
by Mike Duff | Nov 9, 2022 | Retail Articles
Amazon announced that it has identified and disrupted three counterfeiting operations in China thanks to local Public Security Bureaus and intel provided by the company’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit. Law enforcement seized more than 240,000 counterfeit items in the...
by Mike Duff | Oct 20, 2022 | Retail Articles
In an expanding effort, Amazon has intensified legal efforts to shut down fake review brokers, filing its first criminal complaint in Italy and its first lawsuit in Spain in addition to 10 new suits recently launched in the United States. The actions target bad actors...
by Mike Duff | Jul 20, 2022 | Retail Articles
In a challenge to fraudsters, Amazon has announced that it has filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews in exchange for money or free products. The groups, Amazon asserted, recruit...