My friend wanted to buy me a kickstarter-backed card game called Cards Against Humanity which has been sold out for some time, so she forked over a good bit of money (several times the retail price) to buy what she thought was a rare unopened copy on Amazon. Advertised clearly as such, complete with pictures of the actual game.
It turned out what she actually got was a crappy homemade set of print-outs made off of a PDF the company provides for people to make their own copy of the game for personal use. Their site specifically states '...you can use and remix our game for free, but you can’t sell it. Please do not steal our name or we will smash you'. Needless to say, she was pretty disappointed. She returned it and got her money back with no issue (except for the shipping she paid for both ways); the seller claimed he had no idea he was selling counterfeits. I imagine they made quite a bit of money doing this and taking advantage of people too lazy to go through the return process. It's really a shame, but sadly policing the market seems to be an extremely difficult problem (at least economically) considering how many products are listed.
It turned out what she actually got was a crappy homemade set of print-outs made off of a PDF the company provides for people to make their own copy of the game for personal use. Their site specifically states '...you can use and remix our game for free, but you can’t sell it. Please do not steal our name or we will smash you'. Needless to say, she was pretty disappointed. She returned it and got her money back with no issue (except for the shipping she paid for both ways); the seller claimed he had no idea he was selling counterfeits. I imagine they made quite a bit of money doing this and taking advantage of people too lazy to go through the return process. It's really a shame, but sadly policing the market seems to be an extremely difficult problem (at least economically) considering how many products are listed.