Apple: About 90% of ‘Genuine’ Apple items on Amazon.com are fake

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“Apple has complained of a “flood” of counterfeit goods masquerading as its products being sold on Amazon.com,” BBC News reports. “The claim relates to items sold via Amazon’s “fulfilment” scheme, whereby third parties list their goods on the retail giant’s site, store their inventory in its warehouses and rely on it for deliveries.”

“Apple warns the alleged fakes are potentially life-threatening. But it is suing one of the vendors rather than Amazon itself,” The Beeb reports. “The defendant, New York-based Mobile Star LLC, could not be reached for comment and has yet to file its own legal paperwork.”

“Amazon says it takes such matters seriously. ‘Amazon has zero tolerance for the sale of counterfeits on our site,’ a spokeswoman told the BBC. ‘We work closely with manufacturers and brands and pursue wrongdoers aggressively,’” The Beeb reports. “Apple said it had bought ‘well over’ 100 iPhone devices, own-brand power adapters and charging cables, and had found almost 90% of them were fakes.”

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