Amazon US Selling Fake ‘Official’ Apple Chargers

over 90 percent of Apple chargers sold on Amazon US are fake.

In a recent lawsuit filed by Apple, the company claims that 90 percent of ‘official’ Apple chargers are fake. The products were listed as genuine, but it they may do more bad than good to Apple users who bought as replacements.

Apple is currently in the process of suing for trademark infringement a company named Mobile Star LLC. According to the filed documents, Apple is stating that they have made numerous counterfeit chargers with their brand name and for specific devices, which were marketed as genuine products on various sites, most notably on the US version of Amazon.

The products on the websites on which they were sold were actually listed as genuine products. However, to test the accuracy of their claim, Apple decided to actually buy several different chargers. The company’s engineers verified the shipped ‘official’ Apple chargers and discovered several issues with them. They were found to have inferior or missing components, and overall poorly constructed based on a flawed design.

The most dangerous aspect of these genuine Apple chargers as what Mobile Star claimed they were, had inadequate electrical insulation. This doesn’t make them just fakes but very dangerous ones at that. Apple’s engineers reported that they could actually catch fire or even electrocute users.

During Apple’s own investigation, the company bought over 100 Apple chargers, power products, lightning cables and other devices which claimed to be genuine on their Amazon pages. The products were sold by various manufacturers. According to Apple, they found that over 90 percent of the analyzed items were declared fake.

In their lawsuit against Mobile Star, Apple has noted that the consumers bought the ‘genuine’ products trusting in Amazon’s reputation. All the devices were marketed on Amazon using Apple’s own images of the respective products.

According to lawsuit documents made public by PatentlyApple, after the results of their investigation into the official Apple chargers, the company alerted Amazon to the faulty and fake chargers sold by Mobile star. Amazon then quickly turned over all of its inventory bought from the company. Afterward, Amazon issued a statement declaring its zero tolerance

Have you ever purchased any Apple charges from different sellers on Amazon? If so, how well did it work for you?

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