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I keep hearing this on HN but it never seems to happen to me with Amazon, and a buy a lot from Amazon...

• patch_cable 4y ago
  I haven’t had fake goods, but I’ve had it happen where a generic part seems to get substituted for an OEM part, even if it is sold by Amazon.com. Things like replacement water filters or vacuum cleaner bags.
• Spooky23 4y ago
  Some parts are more common than others. I got a grey market baseball catchers bag the other day intended for another country. I was replacing my son’s current bag that got damaged and it was like a completely different product.
• jraby3 4y ago
  It happened to me the first when buying high end skin care products for my wife. Received a product that was in the same bottle and branding but very different from past items. I now buy direct for expensive items and only buy crappy toys and charging cables from Amazon.
  • Symbiote 4y ago
    I hope you reported that to the real manufacturer. They are probably the only people with any influence over Amazon.
• ImprovedSilence 4y ago
  Yeah I’ve def had grey market Levi’s jeans. As in, as far as I could tell, made by same company, but clearly had manufacturing defects that I’d never had to worry about from a store or said companies website. So somebody was putting factory seconds in the bin…. As another poster said, items intended for different markets are common too.