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Comment by devereaux | Hacker News Reader

counterfeit items like SD cards dominate on Amazon. I tried reporting fake electronic equipment - nothing happened, except I seldom buy anything on Amazon anymore.

Amazon should at least be liable for willingly selling items that do not match the description (if they tell me it's a Sandisk SD, I buy it because I believe it is!)

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I got a set of counterfeit guitar strings that was fulfilled by Amazon. Ordered them on Amazon purely out of convenance only to realize someone had sent a fake set of $4 strings.

The counterfeit packaging was almost perfect and the strings where metal (just not coated like they should be). I literally don’t even know why you would fake those.

I'm surprised SanDisk and other major brands that are getting their names dragged through the mud aren't doing something about it.

Even Apple can't prevent fake lightning cables from permeating Amazon, how is a much smaller company like SanDisk supposed to prevent fake microSDs? Its not as though Amazon is willing to QA every microSD card that passes through their warehouses.

> Its not as though Amazon is willing to QA every microSD card that passes through their warehouses.

Segregating stock from different venders would go a long way to fixing the problem. Right now everything is just thrown into the same slush bin, so Amazon can't tell which vendor sent them counterfeit goods when a customer complains.

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