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 nommm-nommm on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:09PM (#12746758)

> They earn a few good reviews somehow at the beginning (paid? from mad people?)

This shouldn't be too hard. Have a few friends order a "product" you never ship or even pay a few people on Fivver to do the same. Costs $25 tops. Hell, you can ship them an empty envelope to put some tracking on it.

If I were the scamming type (and I'm not in the least) I think a decent scam would be create a really good quality private label product. Sell for six months at a very small profit margin. After the good reviews and best seller rankings pour in replace the inventory with shitty quality product at a huge profit margin. It would take a long time for the sales to stop. The initial sales inertia would take some time to slow down.

Maybe that wouldn't work, who knows.

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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by XaspR8d on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:09PM (#12747685)

I know you keep saying the word "scam" but I think a lot of legitimate companies work this way.

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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by chrisbennet on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:33PM (#12748654)

My dad used to say "The secret is to remove the quality faster than the reputation drops."

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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by Grishnakh on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:31PM (#12755356)

Um, this is not a new idea, this is actually the way many large and "respectable" companies work. Just look at HP for a prime example. Or Amazon for that matter (for service quality, not product quality). A lot of people claim Toyota is doing this now.

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