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Comment by nytesky | Hacker News Reader

My sister said they received a counterfeit book — how is that possible since I thought Amazon guarded their book supply chain at least?

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As if. Take a look at the very first line in the description for the book "Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts".

"FROM THE AUTHOR:

All legitimate copies of VDGF produced by Princeton University Press are crisply printed on high-quality paper. If you obtain a shoddily printed copy, it's a fake: please return it and purchase a genuine PUP copy."

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Differential-Geometry-Forms-Ma...

Amazon is famously awash with counterfeit books. It's been an ongoing problem for years. :(

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055909 (1 year ago)

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287936 (2 years ago)

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199135 (5 years ago)

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546 (7 years ago)

It almost as if they created this problem. Where else would this have occurred in the past? I have no idea where I could have gotten a counterfiet book before Amazon.

A flea market was a great place to get cheap knock offs of all sorts of things.

I received counterfeit G skill RAM from Amazon and the seller was Amazon. It was a space blanket put into an obviously fake RAM box even the dimensions were wrong. I bought 2 and one was fake, same shipment too.

A common way for this to happen is via return scams, where someone buys something from amazon and returns a fake. They are rarely checked on the way back in, and are often even liquidated.

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