i just meant anything on amazon, for car parts i usually go through rock auto, several online OEM places like dealership part centers or local for core charge stuff (i.e brakes, battery, anything regular replacement that's not worth the return shipping) I did hand it to autozone though, i needed a brake caliper ASAP, the est. shipping was 2 days out, someone overnighted it and got it next day, and this is for an old toyota that there's not too many parts around in this area, so that happened.
Rockauto is better than amazon for auto parts.
That terrible website and good luck figuring out how to return something.
And amazon beats them from the same sellers, look everything on amazon isnt them. Its sold by others. These days price matters. FTW
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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