“Amazon has now permanently banned over 600 Chinese brands across 3,000 different seller accounts, the company confirms to The Verge.”
Aukey, Mpow, RavPower and TaoTronics just vanished from the store one day. Amazon first gestured vaguely at the sanctity of reviews. Five months later it admits 600 brands were knowingly gaming the system. Amazon took its cut on every one of those sales while the fake reviews did their work.