More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake

Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by heywire on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:34PM (#12745269)

And with brick and mortar retailers like Best Buy price matching Amazon, they're even losing the lead in electronics.

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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by gdulli on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:43PM (#12745335)

The best is when you can showroom on Amazon but then go buy at a real store for the same price, no shipping wait or cost.

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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by FireBeyond on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:00PM (#12746668)

For a lot of things. I admit Best Buy has got a lot better.

But there's still pain points. A lot of hard drive SKUs are tied to retailers, so the same Toshiba hard drive will have an ever-so-slightly different model number, despite being the same drive (and I know there are legitimate reasons for the same), allowing the retailer to deny the price match.

"I know these are both Toshiba X300 5TB 3.5" SATA 3 128MB 7200rpm drives, but this is the X300-BBY, not the X300-AMZN, sorry".

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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by heywire on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:08AM (#12752281)

I've actually found that Best Buy is pretty reasonable when it comes to this if you point out the specs being identical. But I'm sure it is going to vary depending on who you get and what kind of day they've been having.

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