How are these still for sale?
You can buy a lot of illegal drugs, and about anything else you want online. A lot of places even take AMEX!, they post a legit product on Alibaba, then sell you the illegal/semi illegal stuff through that account.
There are a lot of addictive drugs, that are not even outlawed yet in the USA, that China is selling into the USA.[/QUOTE]
Unless you are looking for that kind of stuff, I don't know how anyone would even know. People can get anything they want if they are persistent in their search.
The issue here is fraudsters scamming unsuspecting consumers looking for a deal. Unfortunately there is little the actual manufacturer can do about it. My company deals with fraudulent websites that have stolen our trademarks, product images and marketing verbiage right from our website. They set up a domain that makes it appear they are authorized sellers, and sell product that they don't have at attractive pricing to unsuspecting consumers. The red flag here is the payment method they require like Zelle, Bitcoin etc. They don't take credit cards and once you transfer the $$$, they stop responding. Everything they are doing is illegal but their web domains are set up in obscure third world places and there is little US authorities can do to shut them down. Even after they are exposed as frauds, they just open up another website with a different name and continue their scam.
Best advice for an online shopper is to use your credit card, and buy only from places with well established credibility, positive consumer reviews and a
solid return policy. And the golden rule--- if it seems to good to be true, it probably isn't.