e-Commerce websites including eBay and Amazon have become an ideal and successful platform for counterfeiters and dishonest sellers to distribute counterfeit products in the US and globally, yet remain relatively untouched for secondary liability,

eBay has blocked consumer Counterfeit Product Alert warnings published by The Counterfeit Report on various OTC drugs, electronics and fragrances. Serious problems may await unsuspecting consumers who unknowingly use these counterfeit products.

Alibaba is facing credibility concerns and advising investors in their $15 billion IPO prospectus.

“Too little and too late” is the appropriate response to Alibaba’s newest claims to deal with counterfeit products on its websites in a feature report in the Wall Street Journal.

Consumers are easily deceived and often uninformed, misled and cheated according to a recent consumer survey and industry studies.

Alibaba's Taobao.com removes 114 million suspected counterfeit listings but seeks $15 billion in investor funding for its operations.

Price and quality were usually the indication that a Rolex watch or fashion handbag was a counterfeit. But now serious, sometimes deadly, consequences await unsuspecting consumers.

Alibaba’s widely anticipated massive $15 billion IPO raises red flags about long-term consumer and economic consequences.

Some of Alibaba's nine subsidiaries are significant global proliferators of counterfeit products. TaoBao.com was removed from the 2013 US Notorious Markets List, yet was included in previous lists for widespread counterfeit and pirated product listings.

Counterfeit products on Amazon and eBay are a challenge for consumers.