That’s listed under “other sellers”. The main listing is sold by VIPTECH, Fulfilled by Amazon.
The second listing under other sellers is Amazon. That’s your best bet for getting the real thing. I’m sure Amazon buys from known suppliers.
Not on the page I’m looking at. VIPTECH is also a third party seller. Fulfilled by Amazon means VIPTECH keeps inventory at Amazon Warehouses, but Amazon does not inspect or verify it, they just send it on.
I wonder if it varies by region.
See edit above–VIPTECH is also third party. It looks like VIPTECH and Memories Direct US are both selling it for the same price, I presume there’s an algorithm that alternates which one pops up.
I presume the one sold by Amazon (not just fulfilled by) is genuine. That one is $1 more, and you have to look through the other buying options list to find it.
Of course it is sold through Amazon. But it is sold by Samsung in their official (Curated by Samsung) Samsung store on Amazon. If you thought that there would be some link that takes you off-site to a separate Samsung store with a separate ordering system–well, that’s just silly.
Yes, that would be silly, and is not what I was saying. But clicking on a link from the Samsung store does not guarantee that what you wind up with is coming from the manufacturer. See the Lexar link. If I click the link from the Lexar store, it takes me to a 64gb card sold by Amazon. I then select 128 gb from the menu. The listing looks identical, still has Lexar store above the title, and is sold by a third party.
Amazon is confusing or deceptive about intermingling sellers of the same item.
Yeah, this is what’s confusing a lot of people about buying things on Amazon where counterfeit versions exist; For any given product, there may be multiple buying options. If you are buying from the listing line that says Amazon, or a brand like Samsung, it should be as safe as it’s going to get.
But it’s perfectly possible to buy from other listing lines (for the very same product page) and be delivered something that arrives in Amazon packaging and labelling, but is a counterfeit product.
Amazon doesn’t make a big, conspicuous thing about who is supplying it, and that wouldn’t matter if there were not fake products and unscrupulous sellers in the mix
To further clarify, I would probably be most confident if I were buying from Samsung as the direct seller, fulfilled by Amazon. (That is, like Samsung was a third-party seller, except they are not a third party in that case). That would mean that Samsung itself shipped the product to Amazon, and it was not intermingled with any other supply. Amazon itself as the seller is also pretty reliable, but there is the possibility of intermingling of supply, which makes it more possible for counterfeits to get mixed in. (Imagine, e.g., that Amazon buys Samsung cards from several different importers to stock its warehouses, or buys some directly from Samsung, and some from a US distributor). The least reliable is to buy from a third-party seller, especially if it’s shipped directly from them to you. And Amazon can make it less than obvious whether you are getting something from the manufacturer vs third party, as shown above.
I find it safer and easier for certain items that are more likely to be counterfeit to buy from a retailer that does not have third-party sellers in the mix. Obviously mileage and risk tolerance varies.
For what it’s worth, even though retail list prices tend to be considerably higher than Amazon, I’ve always found a card that suited my needs that was on sale in the brick and mortar, or online stores, so that it was only a few dollars more.
FWIW, none of the several Micro SD cards (from several brands) I have bought from Amazon have been fake. There is a point when caution edges into paranoia.
Sorry I’m so late to the conversation.
There IS a way to limit the offerings - sort of…
Next time you’re in the market for geeky tech, try NewEgg or Tiger Direct.
Not only do they sell through Amazon (which means @ is marking up their mark-up) but their sites have “guided search” or similar features that allow you to build pretty complex filters.
And, for what it’s worth (or wasn’t) I got burned trying to buy microSD cards off eBay.
Seller had very skillfully overwritten the capacity using white paint on the black chip.
Also, I’ve never had trouble with Kingston or SanDisk.
I was trying to go cheap and got (only) what I paid for… 
–G!
As long as it’s a brand-name card and it’s been on there for a while, I’d expect the company to have shut it down if it were fake, as it would be mentioned in the reviews.
Plus, I mean, Amazon has a good return policy on this stuff, so the worst that can happen is you have to return it.
Amazon has a good return policy, but due to the way fake flash memory is faked, it’s not always abundantly clear to people that they even have a fake. Plugging it in and checking the properties will not reveal a fake - only an extended write test will reveal it.