azon will authorize just about anyone to restock a given product, and because all suppliers are treated equally, real and fake stock is co-mingled. This practice is what has allowed the entire cottage industry of fakes to thrive in China. They will scan and print exact copies of packaging, and make sure the external appearance looks dead on, while making cost-cut knockoffs of said product, but getting to sell them to Amazon as if they're the real manufacturer - for the same price the actual manufacturer would receive.. Usually, it's not until a failure and a refusal to warranty a product by the manufacturer that the consumer even knows it was a fake. With things like batteries, that might result in you losing a device at least, and maybe having a fire at most. IIRC, that was the genesis of the whole "Samsung Note exploding" thing, too. Both Samsung and Apple had done some product audits, and foun
