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> make sure it is factory sealed and not counterfeit Hah. I bought an Apple Pencil from BB. Shrink-wrapped in the box. I get home, the battery won't charge. I
by js2 8mo ago
> make sure it is factory sealed and not counterfeit
Hah. I bought an Apple Pencil from BB. Shrink-wrapped in the box. I get home, the battery won't charge. I figured out from the S/N that someone had bought a new pencil, put their dead one in the box, shrink-wrapped it, returned it, BB put it back into stock, and I ended up with it.
Fortunately, BB replaced it for me, but I've never had this issue with a single Amazon item I've purchased and I've done a lot more shopping from Amazon than BB.
- entropicdrifter 8mo agoCounterpoint: People do this on Amazon all the time. One time I ordered a kick drum stand on Amazon. All I got was the foot of the stand and a brick in the box. It was supposed to be brand new, not a used item.
- rincebrain 8mo agoI suspect the wildly differing experiences for this depend on the number of bad actors doing this in the pools feeding into whatever warehouses, versus total churn. For me, living first in Baltimore then NYC, places where there's quite a few people buying quite a few things up and down the cost scale, I never saw a counterfeit anything come up. That's not to say I think it doesn't happen, just that I think that's why some people have wildly different experiences here.
- entropicdrifter 8mo agoI live in the Philly area, so IDK man, kinda just seems like you got lucky
- stockresearcher 8mo ago> Apple Pencil from BB. Shrink-wrapped in the box Not for nothing, but I can’t remember the last time I purchased anything computer related that was shrink wrapped. It’s all single-use-obvious-if-opened tape
- js2 8mo agoYou know, that's a very good point. Everything I can recall purchasing from Apple has tamper-resistant tear-open tape. This was a first gen pencil purchased in April 2020 when BB was doing order pickups in the parking lot. Maybe Apple wasn't using the single-use tape yet?