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Most people don't know that the Amazon stores have counterfeits and they don't care because they will almost never actually get one. I place close to 100 order

Most people don't know that the Amazon stores have counterfeits and they don't care because they will almost never actually get one. I place close to 100 orders a year and have yet to receive a single counterfeit product, or at least, one that substantially differed from the product advertised.

dividedbyzero 4y ago
I believe lots of those counterfeits are actually pretty hard to tell apart from the real product. I've had a Samsung charger that was almost a perfect copy, I wouldn't have noticed it if hadn't started smoking one day because the insides were melting together into a burned mass. There were some details (quality of the printing etc.) but nothing I'd ever have noticed. I've also had a Shimano MTB chain that wore out in 1/20 of what I usually get out of a chain. Not sure how many "this product is kind of disappointing" situations I've had that were actually due to fakes that weren't obviously fake garbage, but kind of ok-ish.
dragontamer 4y ago
The most counterfeits come from books in my experience. There seems to be counterfeit printers who will give lower-quality books (runny ink, editing errors, etc. etc.). This is a bigger deal for $100 to $200 textbooks. You're gonna get a lower quality product than the official printers if you buy enough books on Amazon. https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202 https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202 No Starch Press was also complaining about it pretty loudly, but Amazon never made a response as far as I'm aware. I've caught counterfeits of my own. Ligatures (ex: fi or fl) are completely missing from my Art of Electronics 3rd Edition... so my table-of-contents says "ip-ops" instead of "flip-flops". Among other multitudes of errors that is in no errata that I'm aware of. It is also well published to be the case: https://artofelectronics.net/the-book/counterfeit-editions/ https://artofelectronics.net/the-book/counterfeit-editions/ And I have one of these counterfeit books myself as proof. Amazon really does have crap counterfeit detection.

dividedbyzero 4y ago

I believe lots of those counterfeits are actually pretty hard to tell apart from the real product. I've had a Samsung charger that was almost a perfect copy, I wouldn't have noticed it if hadn't started smoking one day because the insides were melting together into a burned mass. There were some details (quality of the printing etc.) but nothing I'd ever have noticed. I've also had a Shimano MTB chain that wore out in 1/20 of what I usually get out of a chain. Not sure how many "this product is kind of disappointing" situations I've had that were actually due to fakes that weren't obviously fake garbage, but kind of ok-ish.

dragontamer 4y ago

The most counterfeits come from books in my experience. There seems to be counterfeit printers who will give lower-quality books (runny ink, editing errors, etc. etc.). This is a bigger deal for $100 to $200 textbooks. You're gonna get a lower quality product than the official printers if you buy enough books on Amazon. https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202 https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202 No Starch Press was also complaining about it pretty loudly, but Amazon never made a response as far as I'm aware. I've caught counterfeits of my own. Ligatures (ex: fi or fl) are completely missing from my Art of Electronics 3rd Edition... so my table-of-contents says "ip-ops" instead of "flip-flops". Among other multitudes of errors that is in no errata that I'm aware of. It is also well published to be the case: https://artofelectronics.net/the-book/counterfeit-editions/ https://artofelectronics.net/the-book/counterfeit-editions/ And I have one of these counterfeit books myself as proof. Amazon really does have crap counterfeit detection.