Consumers expected honest services, authentic and safe products when they shopped online for holiday gifts. The fact is they may have given or received counterfeit, fake or replica products from Amazon, Walmart and eBay.

Holiday shoppers may expect honest services, authentic, and safe products when they shop Walmart -- but that's not true. Walmart sells counterfeit, fake and replica products.

Amazon is not a safe marketplace, nor providing authentic goods. Consumers may in fact be purchasing counterfeit, fake or replica goods for themselves, or as gifts, that are dangerous or deadly.

Consumers love a good deal and will flock to the internet for Black Friday deals. However, online shopping may be risky, dangerous, and little if any actual value. eBay and Amazon are flooded with counterfeit products, phony reviews and fraudulent deals.

Black Friday shoppers looking for a good deal on Amazon may get much less than they bargained for. Amazon is flooded with counterfeit, fake and replica products, phony reviews and fraudulent deals. Buyer beware.

Amazon paid virtually no federal taxes on $5.6 billion in profits in 2017. Still, Amazon wants incentives and tax breaks from struggling taxpayers to build its new headquarters.

President Trump says the United States will withdraw from a 144-year-old postal treaty allowing steep postal discounts for China manufacturers and counterfeiters who flood U.S. markets with cheap counterfeit, fake and replica goods.

eBay is under fire for some shady practices - enabling and facilitating the sale of an inexhaustible supply of counterfeit goods, including counterfeit drugs, while hiding behind illusory counterfeit policies and ineffective website policing.

Consumers would be shocked to learn they are throwing away good money for an inexhaustible supply of counterfeit goods sold on Amazon and eBay while the e-commerce giants take a transaction fee for each fake item sold.

A trade group representing more than 1,000 brands has recommended that Amazon be added to the U.S. "Notorious Markets List" condemning Amazon's counterfeit and trademark infringement practices.