alt Hacker NewsI've tried to stop buying stuff on Amazon.
I really scaled back when I started going back and looking at old purchases, only to find out 8 of my last purchases were all counterfeit stuff. These were not just random electronic resellers. They were Lucky jeans, a Microsoft keyboard, a JBL bluetooth speaker, Under Armour shorts, Adidas work out tshirts and some other stuff. But altogether, I thought I was buying brand name, safe stuff that was priced in the same range as stuff you'd buy retail and I still got burned.
Just made me distrust everything I was seeing on Amazon.
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The problem is that Amazon will sell things on your behalf and just puts all identical items in the same bin, since on paper they are fungible.
In reality, scum bags are going out and buying cheap counterfeit junk, sending it to Amazon, which just throws it in the bin with every other item. Then someone buys it and gets a counterfeit one.
A lot of brand name clothing manufacturers don't sell their products on Amazon anymore. So you can assume anything with a brand name across many clothing types to be counterfeit and not worth buying. It seems like shoes are one of the few (at least in Germany) where you're still getting legit products.