OEM parts on Amazon?

diezelraccoon said:

Had a quick question. I’ve been getting OEM/ACDelco parts on Amazon. I was told supposedly to stay away from Amazon with that because there are knock off companies that advertise them as OEM but they really are not.?

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Tonyv__ said:

My understanding is that the way Amazon works is, when you buy an item, it may have 10 different suppliers for the same item.
all 10 suppliers send their same item to Amazon for distribution. Amazon then puts all the items from the 10 different suppliers into 1 bin (hypothetical speaking).
Then they sell the item to you.
So if 1 of them 10 suppliers sent in knock off equipment, it will now be mixed in the bin and now the possibility of you getting a knock off is there.

I hope that was easy to understand.

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Marky Dissod said:

This is why I don't buy from Amazon.
ebay's not much better, but over 99% feedback for over 5 years is usually enough to make me feel better about the purchase.

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Stbentoak said:

I buy UPF gold oil filters and ACD Fuel filters on there....So far they have all been authentic and worked well.

But I bought a refrigerator filter on there that has an imbedded microchip, and the Amazon factory replacement actually did NOT have this internal chip... a knock off... and I stopped buying them on there for this reason....Even tho it was in an "OEM" box....

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Stbentoak said:

I buy UPF gold oil filters and ACDelco Fuel filters on there ... So far they have all been authentic and worked well.

But I bought a refrigerator filter on there that has an imbedded microchip, and the Amazon factory replacement actually did NOT have this internal chip ...a knock off ...
... stopped buying them on there for this reason ... Even though it was in an "OEM" box ...

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