I'm a little late to this thread, but I assure you they have and will continue to have scattered incidents of unknowingly selling bootleg products directly from the retailer (In this case, Amazon) and not from 3rd party sellers, This includes media such as DVD's. The company is simply too large and there's too much product out there to prevent it 100%. Mistakes happen.
For one example that wasn't a DVD that I've personally encounterd, I recently purchased a self contained videogame console, known as a "plug & play", that contains 100 Nintendo titles from the 1980s in a self contained controller from the store shelf of a well known national drugstore chain that was carrying it in their toy department (Of course, at the time, I didn't know it contained licensed material that they didn't have the right to sell).
None of these games contained on this unit were licensed from the companies that developed them, such as Nintendo, Konami, and Capcom. All 100 titles were being illegally used and hadn't been licensed from the companies that owned the rights to them. The product was also carried by a well known national discount retailer in their over 1000 locations nationwide and online before being pulled when it was made known to them after carrying it for weeks.
Mistakes happen and things slip through by mistake sometimes. Not everyone working at Amazon involved in purchasing and stocking product is as well versed in the product lines they're carrying as some of you are here about DVD and Blu-Ray releases.
I'm not sure why you think they don't make mistakes, but they do. Every national retailer does.
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Mark Talmadge 
Travis, I read what he said and that's not what he said. Here, let me quote:
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Originally Posted by Jon Martin
They don't KNOWINGLY sell bootleg titles, but with hundreds of DVDs being released each week, they can't check all of them. They are given product by a company that they believe is legit, and list it as if they were.
There is one company (whose name I won't mention that specializes in 80's films) that has hundreds of titles on Amazon, all bootlegs, yet Amazon lists them as if they are real releases. And not through third party, they are shipped and sold from Amazon.
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Amazon, and I repeat, Amazon does not sell these bootleg items, the sellers do. Amazon simply acts as a middleman, processing the payment. That is all they do. If you buy a bootleg DVD through Amazon, the item is sent from the seller (not Amazon), if you do not receive the item, you take that up with the seller (not Amazon).
While I understand that you're trying to resolve this, Jon has an incorrect understanding of the way that Amazon and their 'Flea Market' Amazon Marketplace works. Amazon does not have this merchandise in their physical custody. The merchandise that you buy from Amazon will have a "Buy New" indicator listed on the very first line of the deal.
If the item isn't sold by Amazon but rather by a seller or by another retailer, it will list the retailer's name. The item is not send from Amazon because Amazon does not sell it. Because, if this were true, then Amazon would be getting sued by the MPAA for selling bootleg merchandise.
As it stands, if you ordered and bought a DVD from Amazon and it turned out to be bootleg, then it did not come from Amazon and that you ordered and bought it from a seller or another retailer who sold it on Amazon.
What I'm saying is that Jon is confusing two different aspects of Amazon. Trust me, those items sold by sellers do not have Amazon's logo or packaging information stuck to the mailing package. It will have the seller's address information.
I have ordered merchandise from sellers before and not a single DVD I bought from a seller had Amazon's logo on the mailer/packaging of the item.
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We're fortunate that the entire series was (DVD) released.
