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I just bought a car battery jump starter, and two years ago, when I was blissfully ignorant of the severity of the counterfeiting problem, I would’ve bought it from Amazon. Instead, I ordered from Home Depot.

I’m still willing to buy from Amazon items that aren’t potential fire hazards.

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Home Depot is good for brand name items. But I started noticing a few years back that a substantial number of the cheap crappy tools I saw at Harbor Freight were showing up Home Depot under another random name, but otherwise identical. Totally fine as long as you know what you're getting into, but many people know to expect that when they shop at HF but not at HD.

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