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Old 06-14-23 | 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Kilroy1988
I'm amazed that a six-year-old link to a random Amazon product still works.
I dunno, they try to stay on top of keeping their ASINs straight. Unless of course it's from one of their sponsored fly-by-night ALLCAPS-BS-WORDS companies, which are all coming from the the same factory, they only change names constantly to avoid warranty claims on their garbage products. Those ALLCAPS brand names only recently got smart and started to create websites to make their brands look more legit. The Schwinn product shown is a clear brand name, so no need to change the ASIN or DP#. That would make it harder on referrers. But these days with how bad counterfeiting on their storefront has become on damn near everything, you're taking a huge risk buying anything on Amazon. They don't bother to scrutinize stock sent to their warehouses and make vendors pay extra fees to have inventory bins that aren't co-mingled with other vendors. All you need is one bad vendor ship some grey market or counterfeit goods in, and multiple vendors are fulfilling with fakes out of that comingled bin.

At the pricepoint of that Schwinn kit though, there's no reason for any counterfeiter in their right mind to try and undercut or fake it. I stopped buying virtually anything else on there. Doesn't matter which storefront you buy from, or who is fulfilling.

Too bad inflation has driven that kit up 23% in price, it's $12.99 now !
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