[jeromegv]

You might not be familiar but within Amazon warehouses, they will mix and match the same UPC from different vendors. When it ships, they have no idea if they ship the one from supplier X. If it’s the same barcode, it’s all the same.

So a legit supplier might have their stock mixed with a supplier of fake stuff. And people buying from the legit supplier can get the fake products.

[Wowfunhappy]

I keep hearing this on HN but it never seems to happen to me with Amazon, and a buy a lot from Amazon...

[jraby3]

It happened to me the first when buying high end skin care products for my wife.

Received a product that was in the same bottle and branding but very different from past items.

I now buy direct for expensive items and only buy crappy toys and charging cables from Amazon.

[Symbiote]

I hope you reported that to the real manufacturer.

They are probably the only people with any influence over Amazon.

[patch_cable]

I haven’t had fake goods, but I’ve had it happen where a generic part seems to get substituted for an OEM part, even if it is sold by Amazon.com. Things like replacement water filters or vacuum cleaner bags.

[ImprovedSilence]

Yeah I’ve def had grey market Levi’s jeans. As in, as far as I could tell, made by same company, but clearly had manufacturing defects that I’d never had to worry about from a store or said companies website. So somebody was putting factory seconds in the bin…. As another poster said, items intended for different markets are common too.

[Spooky23]

Some parts are more common than others.

I got a grey market baseball catchers bag the other day intended for another country. I was replacing my son’s current bag that got damaged and it was like a completely different product.