Have you ever ordered a product online and received a fake knock-off?

Have you ever ordered a product online and received a fake knock-off?

  • Yes

    Votes: 38 43.2%

  • No

    Votes: 50 56.8%
  • Total voters
    88
Rickster said:
I ordered a Lenovo thinkpad keyboard early this year from them. What I got was a clearly used/2nd hand one.

Sent them an email with pictures of the original one that was in the laptop + the one they shipped. They replaced it with a new one this time, they didn't even collect their "used" one.
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Similar thing happened to me actually. With the HP battery, because the client needed it urgently we both agreed that accepting the obvious knock-off battery was the best approach.

It started swelling after 6 months, but SPL does give a 12 month warranty. I took it back expecting a battle, because I absolutely wasn't going to accept another cheap clone battery.

I think they could see the frustration in my eyes, so they came back with a neatly packaged, clearly genuine battery with all of the regulatory info and branding on the package.

After fitting this new battery the client couldn't have been happier with the performance compared to the knock-off even from new.

I was hoping that was the last of it and that they had learned from this, but then I had the experience of sending a Lenovo Laptop in for a keyboard repair.

The "Genuine" part was ordered from SPL and I could clearly see by the font on the keyboard, skew space bar and dim backlight that it was another knock-off part.

I had the original keyboard back to compare, if I didn't it would have been a little less obvious.
 
Nope, cause it's the fake I'm usually ordering... the question should be, have you ever ordered a fake and received the authentic article?
 
sand_man said:
Nope, cause it's the fake I'm usually ordering... the question should be, have you ever ordered a fake and received the authentic article?
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Yes, from TakeaShot... the item was marketed as a fake which clearly led to the expectation that I was buying a cheap item to hack/reverse engineer- However it was legit. Sold it for 2.2x what I paid for it.
 
Ordered these "Amplify" BT earphones for my son.
When they arrived, it was some cheap chinese k*K. Logged a return saying the wrong stuff was delivered. I mentioned nothing about "fake". Got the response below.
3 weeks later i still did not receive the refund.
Contacted Amazon, had to use some Kaapse Slang and got refunded that day.

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