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human
ELI5: How do websites that fake items (particularly watches) get away with using the companies logo?

I found a bunch of seemingly legit sites that sell almost exact fakes of Rolex, Tag, Movado etc.

Why don't these get shut down by the actual companies for copyright infringement?
gpt
If you're a Swiss watch company, you don't have any authority to shut down a company in Uzbekistan.  About the best you can do is get your government to call their government and complain, hoping that they'll deal with the copyright infringer for you. 

If the infringer is based somewhere like the US or Canada with at least barely functional copyright laws, the risk is high and the odds of getting shut down are good, but for example the Chinese government have made it pretty clear that they could care less whether Chinese companies are knocking off Western goods.

Meanwhile, customs doesn't have the time, budget or manpower to inspect every watch that gets Fedexed into the country to prove whether or not it's authentic, so in the unlikely event that one counterfeiter does get caught,  his neighbour re-opens the website the next day at a different address and goes right back to work.