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by welder 1864 days ago
It's common to receive a counterfeit brand-name product from Amazon, because anyone can fulfill a product by sending it to an Amazon warehouse. Lot's of counterfeits make it in. Netflix even has a docuseries about it[1]. Research doesn't help there, since you're getting a counterfeit instead of the quality product you researched. Yelp is even worse than Amazon, with reviews tied into their business model[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMPdsKvhCOo (Netflix's Broken about Amazon counterfeits)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-ULQrlx9s (Yelp Billion Dollar Bully Trailer)