It's been a constant battle for our company to stay ahead of Amazon sellers from overseas.

This week I talked with a manager from a US company that invented a complex item that became a big product category on Amazon. Their product cost a fortune to develop– yet today their category is flooded with knockoffs from China– sold on Amazon under a hundred different brand names.

Unable to enforce its US utility patents against so many small, infringing overseas sellers, that US innovator could soon go out of business.

Their manager feels certain that Amazon gives unfair advantages to overseas copycats.

For example, she cited that Amazon sellers can no longer respond publicly to reviews. This puts that US company– with its trained support personnel who have good communication skills– at a disadvantage against the onslaught of tiny importers from overseas who sell primarily on price.

Are there other examples where it seems like Amazon gives China sellers an unfair advantage?