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A comment on Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes. Parent comment

Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by headmelted on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:27PM (#21548926)
I tend to buy from Amazon whenever I can for the pain-free returns.

You’re not wrong - the reviews are utter trash and have no credibility at all anymore - so I look elsewhere for reviews on what I’m buying. I mostly avoid the counterfeiting problem by sticking to branded goods that aren’t easy to convincingly fake. Any problems and it goes back for Amazon to deal with.

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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by avip on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:46PM (#21549860)
>branded goods that aren’t easy to convincingly fake

s.a Apple power adapters?

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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by privateSFacct on Saturday November 16, 2019 @08:44AM (#21552581)
Haha - I got burned by this so many times in a row trying to buy genuine I bought direct from apple. Some of the fakes are terrible some ok but none genuine
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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by Symbiote on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:25PM (#21553734)
> I got burned by this

With chargers, it's a real possibility that you mean this literally. People's houses have burned down due to fake chargers that don't comply with CE (or foreign equivalent) regulations.

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