>I should open them up and see if they're just really good counterfeits They could be legit and failed QA in the factory (flaky after all) but they "fell off a

>I should open them up and see if they're just really good counterfeits They could be legit and failed QA in the factory (flaky after all) but they "fell off a truck" on the way to the electronics recycler and ended up for sale. Semi-counterfeit "3rd shift" products that are made off the books on the official line, often with lower or nonexistent QA, are common too. tl;dr counterfeiting is complicated and just opening it up might not give you a reliable answer