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Re:What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”? by cm2187 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @03:33AM (#20102245)
I use amazon as much as I can, but I would never trust their supply chain with my life or my health. I don't think I would ever buy such an item on their website, nor anything I would apply to my skin or ingest. Even if they displayed a model suitable for climbing, how would you know it is guenine?

The counterfeit problem is real. Like half of their intel 10gbe NIC are counterfeit (I know because a Synology NAS will only work with a guenine model).

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Re:What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”? by oasisbob on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:38PM (#20107754)
Agreed. Amazon has lost my trust here. But, that being said...

With climbing gear, it seems to be less about counterfeits, and more about shady manufacturers / knockoffs with illegitimate safety certifications.

Hot forging takes a lot of work and tooling. I'm not sure there's ever been true counterfeit climbing hardware in the wild.

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