Are you kidding? I live in Thailand.
Not sure it was a counterfeit, but I bought a supposedly OEM charger for my MacBook Pro from Amazon and after a few months it got so hot that the plastic discolored and it stopped being able to charge the laptop. I didn’t bother to dissect it, but I’m reasonably sure that the innards were not 100% Apple.
You got a bad cable. Absent statistics, I wouldn’t assume there was any greater chance of this occurring with a name or no-name cable.
I buy cheap electronics bits and pieces from China all the time. It’s rare that the items don’t work and I’ve never bought anything that didn’t look just like the picture on ebay.
Yep, Rolex, Birkenstocks, VHS tapes( back in the day of Middle East, and sEAsia
I recall back when cassette tapes were the norm. I bought a bootleg version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall on the street in Bangkok. Listed among the songs was not “Comfortably Numb” but rather “Come for Tabby Numb.”
The company I worked for 1998-2000, that specialised in supplying computer systems to the (UK) police, was discovered to have been installing counterfeit Microsoft software on their systems.
They went bust and we all lost our jobs.
As I recall the systems all worked ok though.
I’ve bought one of the knockoff $5 caps the guys sell outside major league ballparks.
Do you have proof, or is it just a gut feeling?
At least the foreign-brand restaurants are real, although the meat they sell may not be!
I’m fairly confident that the wine I buy in Metro is real.
I remember a very honest vendor in Mexico once. I wanted a fake Rolex, and she kept telling me, “this is a Rolex style watch” without indicating that it was a Rolex.