Of course you have obviously counterfeit items, but then you have counterfeit items that look more legitimate than the actual legit product!
The obvious counterfeits aren’t much of an issue to the trained eye, but nowadays some clones are virtually undetectable from aesthetics alone. They look like the real deal but are indeed poorer quality clones.
I’ll give you a perfect example. I ordered a soccer jersey online, it was branded as authentic. When I got it, I immediately realized it was a knock off. But that’s because I have a keen eye for detail in everything. Frankly I wear the jersey because despite being a knock off, only I know it. It’s basically indistinguishable from the authentic, the quality of product, the tags, and packaging all looked 99.99% legit. It’s crazy to think that someone out there produced this knockoff because it makes me wonder how they were able to do it and be so close. But that’s just a shirt. If the jersey snags a thread and falls apart, who cares? It’s just a piece of clothing. But if you have a subpar part on your automobile, it could damage your vehicle and even worse, put your personal safety at risk in the event something goes left.
For this reason, Amazon would be a good place to avoid buying things like parts that need to be or should be close OEM quality. The QC checkers that stock the items on behalf of Amazon for vendors may not have the eye to detect counterfeit items in any given department or they fakes might be so good, that they don’t get flagged.
The obvious counterfeits aren’t much of an issue to the trained eye, but nowadays some clones are virtually undetectable from aesthetics alone. They look like the real deal but are indeed poorer quality clones.
I’ll give you a perfect example. I ordered a soccer jersey online, it was branded as authentic. When I got it, I immediately realized it was a knock off. But that’s because I have a keen eye for detail in everything. Frankly I wear the jersey because despite being a knock off, only I know it. It’s basically indistinguishable from the authentic, the quality of product, the tags, and packaging all looked 99.99% legit. It’s crazy to think that someone out there produced this knockoff because it makes me wonder how they were able to do it and be so close. But that’s just a shirt. If the jersey snags a thread and falls apart, who cares? It’s just a piece of clothing. But if you have a subpar part on your automobile, it could damage your vehicle and even worse, put your personal safety at risk in the event something goes left.
For this reason, Amazon would be a good place to avoid buying things like parts that need to be or should be close OEM quality. The QC checkers that stock the items on behalf of Amazon for vendors may not have the eye to detect counterfeit items in any given department or they fakes might be so good, that they don’t get flagged.
