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Old 08-16-2022, 09:52 AM #1
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Buying Filters off Amazon is Sometimes Concerning
It says "Ships by Amazon . com" "Sold by Amazon . com"

WIX Filters - 24511 Cabin Air Panel $17.76

Wix 49350 Air Filter $16.99

Its the fraud Im concerned about. I doubt that Amazon would buy grey market stuff and resell it as original.

I guess I could buy them and return them if they dont show up in OE packaging etc.
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It says "Ships by Amazon . com" "Sold by Amazon . com"

WIX Filters - 24511 Cabin Air Panel $17.76

Wix 49350 Air Filter $16.99

Its the fraud Im concerned about. I doubt that Amazon would buy grey market stuff and resell it as original.

I guess I could buy them and return them if they dont show up in OE packaging etc.
If you're concerned just go to your local Napa. They're Wix.
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tons of counterfeit items from china on amazon. some of it in packaging thats identical to the original. But when you use it it breaks or is made from inferior or weakened parts. Its gotten worse over the last few years.
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Buying anything off Amazon is concerning anymore. Their site has really took a shit the last few years with counterfeit, knockoff products. All about $$$.
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If you're concerned just go to your local Napa. They're Wix.
home depot as well
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I heard from a Dewalt employee stocking shelves in the tool department at Home Depot that Dewalt makes special versions of their tools, with different SKU numbers, just to sell at Home Depot and other big box stores. He explained that those tools use inferior materials in order to meet a lower price point set by Home Depot.
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I can't find the article. But marketing group did a random-ish test maybe four or five years ago where they bought a few hundred items on Amazon and then worked with the manufacturers to identify which ones were counterfeit and which were legitimate. And my memory is the result was roughly 25% of everything they bought was counterfeit.
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I heard from a Dewalt employee stocking shelves in the tool department at Home Depot that Dewalt makes special versions of their tools, with different SKU numbers, just to sell at Home Depot and other big box stores. He explained that those tools use inferior materials in order to meet a lower price point set by Home Depot.
Stories like that have been around forever.
Sears demanded cheaper washing machines from Maytag 30 years ago, something about the gears and transmissions not being top grade.

Costco had different Michelin tires sold only to them for less about 15 years ago.

I guess you get what you pay for.
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um im not going to be that paranoid..
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All stock at Amazon is intermingled. Anything that can be counterfeited is and sold by Amazon. It doesn’t matter if it says ‘sold by Amazon.’ Best bet is to avoid the site all together, and only purchase items from actual retailers or, even better, direct when possible. Amazon is only good for the cheap, alibaba-type stuff that isn’t name brand anyway.
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Pictures of the intake air filter that I received and a single picture of the original.
I have seen other pictures of Wix boxes where they have put a Wix sticker over the sticker on the box. The Wix filter picture on their site also says "made in China" and has very similar numbers printed on the filter to the one I received. The part numbers are the same.
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Wix confirmed that I received one of their filters after I gave them the numbers printed on it. They said they double sticker them at the warehouse. They also said that they do not sell directly to Amazon so it must have come from a parts distributor.
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