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Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem

posted by martyb on Thursday February 14 2019, @11:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the fakes-news dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/amazon-10k-warns-investors-about-counterfeit-problem-for-first-time.html

After years of denial and stonewalling, Amazon has admitted for the first time that they have a problem with counterfeit products. This primarily affects the Amazon Marketplace.

As a personal victim of getting counterfeit goods several times from Amazon (and eBay), I thought I'd help spread the word a bit farther. Apparently counterfeit board games is a big thing.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:27PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:27PM (#801032) Journal

    Breadboards I get from Amazon are cheap, but they seem to work okay.

    I doubt that MAX7219 chips are counterfit. Maybe. But if so, they work, even if they are unexpectedly cheap.

    They still work even when I drive them slightly out of spec, from Java (yes really) on a Ras Pi 1 with 512 MB! (Not a 2, not a 3. This is for fun, not for work.)

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