I've been ordering on Amazon in Germany for a good 20 years now and I've never received a counterfeit item. Is it not a thing here? Does it primarily affect certain countries? Am I insanely lucky?

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Hackbraten 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Been ordering since January 2000 (> 1,000 orders) from Amazon Germany and never received anything counterfeit as far as I can tell.

I think I'm pretty good at spotting fakes, because I'm sensitive to tiny typographical or material-wise quirks. In the same period, I've received multiple fakes on eBay, including a genuine phone that came with a counterfeit charger.

I can imagine that commingling introduces a very low-percentage risk of receiving a counterfeit product but due to the immense scale, it still affects a huge absolute number of orders.

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alphager 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have had it happen in Germany on Gillette blades.

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kace91 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I haven’t it happen to me either (Spain) but if you sort comments by negative you see it happen relatively frequently, and it’s credible reviews with pictures.

	▲	Yokolos 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't mean to say that I don't believe it happens. It seems quite plausible to me. I'm just wondering whether it's a regional issue.

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iLoveOncall 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I also haven't received any counterfeit ever. I have 400+ orders a year...

I think what a lot of people qualify of counterfeit (not saying OP does here) is people buying cheap no-brand Chinese garbage and receiving cheap no-brand Chinese garbage and not being happy with it.

	▲	robinsonb5 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Or buying, for example, electric toothbrush heads at half the cost they are in the supermarket and then being surprised when they turn out to be counterfeit. But that's the other aspect to commingling, I guess - you might pay full price for the real deal and get a fake, due to bad actors' stock being commingled, but on the flipside a punter who's paid an unrealistically low obviously-fake price might actually get the real deal, adding an air of legitimacy to the bad actor.
	▲	sgerenser 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There’s definitely counterfeit stuff, but it’s much more common in some categories than others. USB cables and chargers, SD cards, USB flash drives for example are commonly counterfeited (e.g advertised as made by Apple or SanDisk but actually being ‘cheap no brand Chinese garbage’). Many wouldn’t even realize it because the products usually still work, but have major defects like less capacity than advertised or being built much worse.
	▲	matsemann 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, I know loads of people having bought SD cards from reputable brands at full price, only to receive a fake one in the mail. You don't notice until you're using the card and your gopro writes too fast to it. I don't like the victim blaming of your post.