I don't think it was a fake product, but most likely a fake brand. You should only be buying original brands from their manufacturers, or generic commodity ite

I don't think it was a fake product, but most likely a fake brand. You should only be buying original brands from their manufacturers, or generic commodity items. For example, you can get great prices on LCD screens on Alibaba, but you will get a fake Samsung LCD screen, unless you were buying from Samsung or a reseller. People who get fake stuff from Alibaba willingly do so. Counterfeit is a huge business, and every minute a moron gets ripped off on EBay, so he decides to rip off others by importing counterfeit products with the intention to resell them. What he doesn't know is that he will be ripped off again, this time wholesale. It's for this reason that generic, white-label products are hard to come by in certain markets; it might even be cheaper, sometimes, to buy new cases for knockoff products and rebrand them yourself as Acme.