Shopping on Amazon for my daughter’s birthday presents, I was scratching my head over the jigsaw puzzles too. Specifically the wooden puzzles where the pieces are shaped like animals. There seems to be so many sellers with a similar product, it immediately made me wonder which was going to be decent quality. The descriptions were all weird copypasta and the product photos just a smidge lo-res, and they all trash-talked the competition in the same weirdly specific way. I googled them all to see if they had legit 1st party websites, and finally determined that Unidragon seemed to be the original / most legit, and bought one of those.
Also on Amazon I was looking for stuffed dragons and came across a raft of sellers all trying to sell an incredible looking flexible stuffed dragon from Raya. All the sellers had random strings of letters for their seller names, lo-res images and all charged $29 dollars. Finally I found one with a 1 star review who called out the scam and name-checked the ACTUAL maker from whom all the product shots and description had been lifted. The real artist is a Russian dollmaker who makes them by hand for $600/pop. It seems hard to believe that Amazon couldn’t have detected these obvious frauds…
