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You're listening to Life Kit from npr.
Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
Before I was the host of Life Kit, I was a financial reporter for the public radio show Marketplace.
And one time I went to Rhode island to interview a woman who owned a small company that makes bird feeders.
A customer had bought a hummingbird feeder from her brand on Amazon,
or so they thought, because it was a fake.
A convincing one with her company's name and phone number on it.
But it didn't work.
The pieces didn't fit together.
That kept happening to this company, and it happens to all sorts of companies, large and small,
that somewhere, someone decides to make a cheap, fake version of their product and sell it online.
That's what you call a counterfeit.
A counterfeit product is something that stems from what's called a trademark counterfeit.
Basically, the seller is trying to make money off of some other company's reputation.
The unauthorized use of the trademark is what makes it a counterfeit