Walmart Won't Stop Selling Fakes

Walmart Joins the e-Commerce Counterfeit Marketplace

August 23, 2017, Los Angeles, CA – Walmart’s decision to participate in online e-commerce sales comes with a cost. Consumers are being deceived and losing money, and Walmart is damaging its reputation. Walmart is allowing and enabling the sale of counterfeit products.

Walmart would like consumers to believe that Walmart is a safe place to buy name-brand goods, but that's just not true. Many consumers aren’t aware that Walmart allows third-party sellers to list and sell products, including counterfeits, 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.

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 were removed, but later relisted.

For example; The Counterfeit Report purchased the counterfeit 64GB microSDHC^® computer memory card below on Walmart’s website and submitted 11 complaints over 7 weeks to remove the fake item. The item remains despite the complaints and a call to Walmart management. A promised 48-hr follow-up telephonic response never occurred.

The microSDHC^® trademark is owned by SD-3C, LLC, who licenses the trademark to authentic, conforming products. In simple terms, there is no authentic 64GB microSDHC^® product in the microSDHC standard, or any licensed manufacturer's authentic product line.

Could you identify these fake microSD^® and microSDHC^® memory cards sold by Walmart directly, or by third party sellers, on walmart.com? It's simple, none exist in the Secure Digital (SD) standard, or any licensed manufacturer's authentic product line.

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 engaged in counterfeit sales, and 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.