Re: Simple solution?
Sorry for the delay...
But your assertion seems a bit suspect: in the UK, for example, the Consumer Rights Act of 2015 imposes obligations on the retailer for a period of 6 months (Part I, Chapter 2, Subsection 14). Every other obligation is on the manufacturer, and it is unquestionable that a solid-state memory device failing sooner than expected (which is what we're talking about) is much more likely to be a warranty issue, not a trading issue.
So the situation where fake goods are delivered in place of genuine would indeed be a reseller problem (as long as the "fakeness" is real; I see a lot of cases where low-duty-cycle products are expected to behave like high-duty-cycle ones, which often results in a "caveat emptor" situation where a product was not fit for the purpose the purchaser intended, but the reseller had no way of knowing that). And indeed it is more than a little dishonest to pretend that Amazon et al don't address these sorts of problems (post-paid return shipping, refunds to original methods of payment as well as store credit, etc). I mean, Amazon does operate outside of the US, so to use your words, Amazon handles situations in precisely the same way as any other reseller where "consumer law in may more civilized locations around the globe works".
Or are you alleging that Amazon (et al.) in the UK, Germany, France, Ireland, Norway etc. do NOT adhere to local consumer law?
So it appears to me that you are unaware of how companies like Amazon operate, how consumer law operates, etc and are just eager to bash Amazon. And indeed there are plenty of things for which Amazon-bashing is appropriate, but those do not seem to have anything to do with the situation under discussion.