Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
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Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
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Re: Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
#2Is amazon's model even profitable for these low-price high-volume parts without its binning system?
I literally do not buy things off amazon that fall into these "binning problem" categories, or anything easily counterfeitable. I'll buy from amazon for things that essentially cannot be counterfeit (GPUs, hard drives, things where counterfeits would be more likely to be a brick of the same weight rather than something that worked but was crappy or dangerous), or where i'm essentially trying to get "counterfeit"-grade stuff (stuff like plastic or metal garden spikes, where i just want the cheapest possible thing that will hold my irrigating tubing in place).
Everything else comes from target or the OEM's website store.
Re: Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
#3Louis Rossmann just released a video on this about Toshiba hard disks [1]. I canceled my Prime account in 2018, after my last online order for memory. Now, I only purchase in-person from large vendors with direct-from-manufacturer custody [this costs more, obviously].
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#4What do you mean "still" here? It seems like it's as bad as it ever was to me.
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#5I don’t really get the argument in this article. If a consumer can’t notice the brand name in big caps letters of LEMERO or MYTONER as the first word and throughout the text instead of Epson this seems like a PEBKAC problem.
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#6What do you mean "still" here? It seems like it's as bad as it ever was to me.
I do think that in Europe at least, it seems to be better. A bit more fencing it seems but the quality seems to be better than during covid from what I heard.
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#7What do you mean "still" here? It seems like it's as bad as it ever was to me.
What do you mean, is a company named “TIFHSGFN” not normal??
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#8Surprisingly I couldn’t reproduce a glaring and longstanding issue.
You can google 2tb flash drives and see a ton advertised for <$100. These are all fake. Surprisingly Amazon doesn’t have any!
Re: Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
#9Louis Rossmann just released a video on this about Toshiba hard disks [1]. I canceled my Prime account in 2018, after my last online order for memory. Now, I only purchase in-person from large vendors with direct-from-manufacturer custody [this costs more, obviously]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeUNC7z5MM0
> Now, I only purchase in-person from large vendors with direct-from-manufacturer custody [this costs more, obviously].
Could you say which you've had luck with?
Re: Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
#10I don’t really get the argument in this article. If a consumer can’t notice the brand name in big caps letters of LEMERO or MYTONER as the first word and throughout the text instead of Epson this seems like a PEBKAC problem.
Congratulations! You know something that others are completely unaware of.