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Originally Posted by fjtorres
They might be gray marketting genuine products, in which case they might conceivably have a restraint of trade complaint against Apple for claiming they were selling counterfeits. Longshot but possible in theory.
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According to the complaint that you can see in the link that you provided, Apple did retract the complaint made to Amazon. The products are genuine. The shot that they have with Apple relies on the fact that the investigator that Apple hired is not licensed to investigate.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
But suing Amazon just means the suit gets tossed out in, like, ten seconds flat because amazon affiliate contracts clearly indicate Amazon can terminate anybody anytime for any reason or none.
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While Amazon can do that they still have to give any money that they owe to the seller within a fixed time frame and they didn't.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Don't even need to get into ludicrous conspiracy scenarios.
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The conspiracy part is weird, but according to the complaint both Amazon and Apple sent replies to H2F in which they were blaming the company for the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) match even though it is Amazon that assigns the numbers, and Amazon also told that Apple complained about their listing after the contract was terminated and there was no listing to complain about.