Many times I have almost succumbed to the impulse to run a box containing a used product (like a Monopoly board game) through my shrink-wrap machine and pass it off as "new" to sell on Ebay...
I used to work part-time for Aubrey Organics in Florida, it was then a one-man operation. He had set up a silk-screen machine to make really professional-looking labels for the bottles for all his products.
Aubrey created natural health and beauty products with biodegradable and natural ingredients. We made suntan oil, skin lotion, shampoo and so on. For example, his shampoo had no artificial coloring, no "foaming" agent, no artificial "fragrant odor", etc. We would stir the ingredients in a wooden barrel, not metal or plastic.
Aubrey got mad at me one day when I put my lunch, two hot dogs, in the refrigerator, alongside some of his organic ingredients which he had to keep cool. He said the fumes from the hot dogs would interfere with the purity of his organic compounds.
He became quite successful, I saw his products in many stores along the East Coast. When I stopped in years later, he had bought the next door property and built a small factory.
Yes, it is possible - honest, ethical people do succeed.
