Re:Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
by mikeash on Saturday March 25, 2017 @05:43PM
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The name of the product says "Apple" and includes an Apple model number. I see nothing, other than the shady price, to indicate it's not genuine.
Re:Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
by emu on Saturday March 25, 2017 @05:38PM
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The listing says, and I quote: "Apple A1385 USB Cube Adapter ..." (in the title) and "Includes 1 Apple certified charger cube". I'd bet that neither is true.
Re:Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
by nommm-nommm on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:44PM
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If the only place I ever bought something was Amazon how do I know if the charger was "half price?" Especially if you didn't know counterfeit chargers were a thing? These chargers are some of the best selling products on Amazon's charger category. In most cases they outsell the genuine versions.
Am I missing where the ad says it's a genuine Apple product? I see that it says "compatible", but that's clearly a fake to me. Not that it wouldn't trick some people, but I can't really blame Amazon for that. It's a knockoff.
I think if someone goes onto Amazon and buys a phone charger for half the price of a genuine charger, that's a different problem than paying for and receiving a "genuine" charger that turns out to be fake.