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Counterfeit Maglulas on Amazon
« on: January 07, 2021, 07:45:39 PM »
Just looked on Amazon and can't find any Maglula products and this may be why.
May want to check your Maglula products if you own any

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For those who don’t know, Maglula is an Israeli-based company that makes various magazine loaders for firearms that allow shooters to more easily load handgun magazines. On December 12th, a federal lawsuit was filed which claimed that Amazon was a direct seller of the Maglula Counterfeits.

This lawsuit comes on the heels of another successful suit against Chinese manufacturer Hangzhou Goodtools Co Ltd for making unauthorized copies of its UpLULA universal pistol magazine loader. The Amazon counterfeit was apparently sold by Amazon, arrived in Amazon packaging, and was then subsequently returned to a third-party liquidation center and listed for resale.

Maglula claims that they have repeatedly warned Amazon about the counterfeit magazine loaders. According to The Counterfeit Report, the best way to be refunded your money if you receive a counterfeit Maglula product is to hold onto the counterfeit product as evidence during your open dispute

Alleged Maglula Counterfeits Instigate Amazon Inventory Inspection
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2021/01/06/maglula-counterfeits-amazon/

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Re: Counterfeit Maglulas on Amazon
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2021, 07:54:20 PM »
China!
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Re: Counterfeit Maglulas on Amazon
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2021, 07:57:11 PM »
On the front page of their website

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Re: Counterfeit Maglulas on Amazon
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2021, 08:08:31 PM »
I am SHOCKED! to learn that Brother Bezos might be involved in selling counterfeit products.

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Re: Counterfeit Maglulas on Amazon
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2021, 12:24:10 AM »
" . . . another successful suit against Chinese manufacturer Hangzhou Goodtools Co Ltd . . . "

Hmmm . . . let me guess how this will go.

The assets of this company (e.g., the tooling) were probably leased from some other Chinese company which in turn leased them to a new company, Hangzhou Finetools Co Ltd, which is totally different from Hangzhou Goodtools Co Ltd, and only has the same address as the latter company since it went out of business (no assets) and left it's factory space vacant and fortuitously available for Hangzhou Finetools Co Ltd.

Gee, I wonder what products Hangzhou Finetools Co Ltd, will be manufacturing?

And if you think this arrangement is fishy, feel free to hire Chinese lawyers licensed to practice in Chinese courts and try to prove otherwise - they'll try to get you on the docket sometime in the next couple of years.

(I worked for a large highly diversified U.S. based multinational company that had to deal with that kind of cr@p all the time. We even left some product lines because of it.  :mad:   )
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Re: Counterfeit Maglulas on Amazon
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2021, 09:42:51 PM »
Could always embargo China.

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Re: Counterfeit Maglulas on Amazon
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2021, 09:29:44 AM »
Could always embargo China.

Can't do that.  Our new President would go broke.
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Re: Counterfeit Maglulas on Amazon
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2021, 10:48:54 AM »
Update: Maglula wins

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Despite Amazon asserting throughout the case that it is not liable for intellectual property infringement because it is just a platform and not the actual seller of counterfeit goods, the Finnegan team was able to successfully convince Judge O’Grady otherwise and secured orders from the court denying Amazon’s multiple challenges to Maglula’s complaint. The case also marked a number of firsts in counterfeit lawsuits against Amazon, including an order that was granted to allow Amazon’s warehouses to be inspected for counterfeit goods (ostensibly a first of its kind in an IP case against Amazon) and a finding that Amazon destroyed evidence after Maglula filed its complaint.

Victory! Maglula Defeats Amazon in Counterfeit Claims
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2021/12/08/maglula-defeats-amazon/
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