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Someonetoday at 2:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

If it were that simple, these pages wouldn’t exist:

https://www.anker.com/eu-en/verify

https://cairovolt.com/en/blog/how-to-identify-original-anker


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embedding-shapetoday at 2:32 PM

> https://www.anker.com/eu-en/verify

I love how the path includes eu-en but then the list of countries where this is actually used:

> Europe: Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Azerbaijan

Looks like list almost half not in the EU and half in, but missing quite a lot of EU countries.

Anker themselves say they "promise that all the products purchased through our Authorized Retailers or Distributors and Online Channels are genuine" but the link to who those are is gone apparently.

LoganDarktoday at 4:03 PM

If you purchase from the official seller on Amazon, you're highly unlikely to get a counterfeit unless someone committed return fraud. I think platforms that destroy returns aren't susceptible though.