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My sister said they received a counterfeit book — how is that possible since I thought Amazon guarded their book supply chain at least?

wil421 2y ago
I received counterfeit G skill RAM from Amazon and the seller was Amazon. It was a space blanket put into an obviously fake RAM box even the dimensions were wrong. I bought 2 and one was fake, same shipment too.
- extraduder_ire 2y ago
  A common way for this to happen is via return scams, where someone buys something from amazon and returns a fake. They are rarely checked on the way back in, and are often even liquidated.
justinclift 2y ago
Amazon is famously awash with counterfeit books. It's been an ongoing problem for years. :( • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055909 (1 year ago) • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287936 (2 years ago) • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199135 (5 years ago) • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546 (7 years ago)
- datavirtue 2y ago
  It almost as if they created this problem. Where else would this have occurred in the past? I have no idea where I could have gotten a counterfiet book before Amazon.
  - frumper 2y ago
    A flea market was a great place to get cheap knock offs of all sorts of things.
floxy 2y ago
As if. Take a look at the very first line in the description for the book "Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts". "FROM THE AUTHOR: All legitimate copies of VDGF produced by Princeton University Press are crisply printed on high-quality paper. If you obtain a shoddily printed copy, it's a fake: please return it and purchase a genuine PUP copy." https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Differential-Geometry-Forms-Mathematical/dp/0691203709/ https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Differential-Geometry-Forms-Ma...

wil421 2y ago

I received counterfeit G skill RAM from Amazon and the seller was Amazon. It was a space blanket put into an obviously fake RAM box even the dimensions were wrong. I bought 2 and one was fake, same shipment too.

extraduder_ire 2y ago
A common way for this to happen is via return scams, where someone buys something from amazon and returns a fake. They are rarely checked on the way back in, and are often even liquidated.

justinclift 2y ago

Amazon is famously awash with counterfeit books. It's been an ongoing problem for years. :( • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055909 (1 year ago) • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287936 (2 years ago) • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199135 (5 years ago) • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546 (7 years ago)

datavirtue 2y ago
It almost as if they created this problem. Where else would this have occurred in the past? I have no idea where I could have gotten a counterfiet book before Amazon.
- frumper 2y ago
  A flea market was a great place to get cheap knock offs of all sorts of things.

floxy 2y ago

As if. Take a look at the very first line in the description for the book "Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts". "FROM THE AUTHOR: All legitimate copies of VDGF produced by Princeton University Press are crisply printed on high-quality paper. If you obtain a shoddily printed copy, it's a fake: please return it and purchase a genuine PUP copy." https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Differential-Geometry-Forms-Mathematical/dp/0691203709/ https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Differential-Geometry-Forms-Ma...