Amazon kicked out big brands doing paid reviews

[Bapun]

About three weeks ago, some big brands on Amazon suddenly got kicked out.

Most people wouldn’t recognize the names of the more than a dozen Chinese companies, including Mpow and Aukey, that disappeared. But those two sell large numbers of electronics such as phone chargers and external smartphone batteries. If you’ve clicked “buy” on the first phone charger or wireless headphones that you saw on Amazon, it might have come from one of those now-suspended merchants.

Amazon’s great purge: Big brands suddenly kicked off online retailer

Researching this made me feel (again) that it’s exhausting trying to avoid being cheated or manipulated online and our favorite internet destinations aren’t doing enough to protect us. Let me expla…

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