https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...
I left a review warning others this was a possibility, but Amazon removed it since it was critique of a seller rather than the product.
It’s impossible to tell if you’ll get a genuine product if Amazon censors reviews critiquing sellers sending the wrong product or no product at all.
WEXIM
PEIPU
SEMRE
MIADY
YEAKE
(Answer: WEXIM and SEMRE are waypoints, the rest are brands)
I wonder how the sellers decide that "ah yes, today is the day I'll start selling YEAKE-brand USB cables". It sounds vaguely English, I guess.
We weren't the only ones to get a fake birdfeeder, fwiw:
https://www.wpri.com/news/call-12-for-action/counterfeits-on...
> WARREN, R.I. (WPRI) — Aspects has been in business for decades, manufacturing bird feeders that come with a lifetime guarantee. So in 2016, when a customer called about a defective hummingbird feeder, the Warren-based company took the complaint seriously. “We went through the process of cutting the plastic and looking at all the different molding telltales and we realized it was not our product,” Trisha Torres, the CEO of Aspects, told Call 12 for Action. Torres said the product was a counterfeit. She knew if there was one, there had to be others.
> “We found that it was just rampant on Amazon,” Torres said. In 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 3,828 counterfeit Aspects bird feeders in 68 cartons. Federal court records show Aspects won a permanent injunction against the LLC that made the shipment, but even now, Torres still finds fakes on Amazon. “My customer service department has fielded hundreds of these calls,” Torres said. “People’s knee-jerk reaction is they are just angry at us. They think we’re not standing behind our product.”