Walmart Won’t Stop Selling Counterfeits

Walmart and third-party sellers offer counterfeits on Walmart’s website.

June 08, 2017, Los Angeles, CA – Walmart has a counterfeit problem. Both Walmart, and third-party sellers Walmart allows to list on Walmart's website, are selling counterfeit products.

Walmart's global name recognition and consumer perceived credibility provides 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.

Unknown to many consumers, Walmart allows outside third-party sellers to list and sell products on Walmart's website. Alarmingly, counterfeit products 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 complaints to Walmart, authorized by the trademark holders, for counterfeit items found on its website. Yet months later, some items remain.

For example; The Counterfeit Report found the listings below for counterfeit 16GB and 32GB microSD^® computer memory cards on Walmart’s website. The microSD^® trademark is owned by SD-3C, LLC, who confirms there is no such authentic microSD^® product in the microSD standard, or any licensed manufacturer's authentic product line.

Both counterfeit 16GB and 32GB microSD^® memory cards shown below are offered by Walmart and an outside third-party seller on Walmart.com.

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 sellers as have Amazon and eBay. These e-commerce websites have become the perfect platforms 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.