A lot of their name brand stuff is counterfeit Chinese crap. They get away with it by comingling inventory of third party sellers with their own. If they get busted selling counterfeit merchandise they just say, "oh, that must have been one of the third parties that supplied it." They can't say which one, either. Genius racket.
This.
This is a massive problem with so much they sell. Besides all the straight up Chinese junk , the counterfeit problem is waaay bigger than people realize. I’ll bet at least 20% is fake at this point. Batteries, tweezers, clothes, vitamins, components…. So much fake. I’ve had to send a lot back lately, years ago it was near zero.
I bought a phone battery from amazon. Exact same numbers on each battery everything matched except it was 1/8" too big. Chinese crap.
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