Disk Prices on Amazon

Re:Disk Prices on Amazon by pingyong on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:58AM (#22167929)

I wonder if this knock-off problem I keep reading about is something specific to the US. I've ordered ~200 things over the last 3 years from Amazon, and I've never received a knock-off either. I've never even heard of that happening outside of internet comments. Plus sending things back to Amazon is usually fairly trivial.

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Re:Disk Prices on Amazon by astura on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:55AM (#22169905)

>I've never even heard of that happening outside of internet comments.

Amazon itself has admitted it has a counterfeit problem to it's investors

https://qz.com/1542839/amazon-has-finally-admitted-to-invest...

Beyond that there's been documented cases by manufacturers such as Birkenstock and Apple plus the eclipse sunglasses.

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Re:Disk Prices on Amazon by numpad0 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:13PM (#22176136)

No, not US specific. I see some of sellers in my country includes stickers or keychains just to change ASIN.

One aspect is that not everything has counterfeit counterparts, e.g. there is no counter-counterfeit to, specific counterfeits, products that require exotic parts, or foods.

I’ve never seen a 4-cell(Lipo) knockoff battery for Lenovo X200 and I know the reason is because it is not easily possible to source appropriate components.

So there could be specific usage model for Amazon of a person that could completely avoid receiving unexpected items.

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Re:Disk Prices on Amazon by wyldfire on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:09AM (#22168984)

How would you know whether what you received was authentic?

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Re:Disk Prices on Amazon by astura on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:09AM (#22170046)

For example, one wouldn't know their bike helmet was a knockoff unless they had fallen and hit their head.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/16/647377213/fake-bike-helmets-c...

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