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Walmart Joins the Online Counterfeit Marketplace

August 07, 2017, Los Angeles, CA – Walmart would like consumers to believe that Walmart is a safe place to buy name-brand goods, but that is not true. Walmart is enabling and allowing the sale of counterfeit products.

Unknown to many consumers, Walmart allows outside third-party sellers to list and sell products on Walmart's website - walmart.com. Alarmingly, counterfeit products can appear right next to authentic items conveying Walmart's endorsement and the illusion they are from Walmart.

Walmart's global name recognition and consumer perceived credibility provide a significant advantage in marketing (and profiting) from unaware consumers. Buyers place their confidence in, and rely on Walmart's credibility to purchase authentic goods. Sometimes that confidence is misplaced.

The Counterfeit Report^®, a consumer advocate and watchdog, has repeatedly found and submitted dozens of complaints to Walmart, authorized by the trademark holders, for counterfeit items found on its website. Yet months later, some items remain, while others are removed, but later relisted.

For example; The Counterfeit Report found the listing below for counterfeit 64GB microSDHC^® computer memory cards on Walmart’s website and submitted 7 complaints to remove the fake item. The microSDHC^® trademark is owned by SD-3C, LLC, who licenses the trademark to authentic, conforming products. Simply put, there is no authentic 64GB microSDHC^® product in the microSDHC standard, or any licensed manufacturer's authentic product line.

The counterfeit 64GB microSDHC^® memory card shown below was purchased by The Counterfeit Report.

Consumers cannot determine the actual memory capacity of a counterfeit memory card by simply viewing the capacity displayed on their computer, phone or camera. The counterfeiters are too smart for that, and simply overwrite the real memory capacity with a false capacity to match any capacity they print on the counterfeit packaging and card. Actual capacity may be much less than shown on the product and when reached, exiting data may be overwritten and lost.

The removable microSD memory storage card is an amazing, convenient and trouble-free storage device. When it works, it is unnoticed. When you get a fake, it will be the very core of your frustration, despair and pain – your data will likely disappear and your equipment may be damaged.

Walmart has opened it's website to third party counterfeit sellers as have Amazon and eBay. These e-commerce websites have become the perfect platforms to enable and facilitate the distribution of some $1.7 trillion in global counterfeit goods, expected to grow to $2.8 trillion by 2022, and benefit from the proceeds of the criminal activity. These dishonest practices impact jobs, consumer safety and public trust using deception with impunity. Counterfeiting costs U.S. manufacturers over $250 billion, and U.S. workers over 750,000 jobs.