NO-NAME ELECTRONICS
It’s common to search for an electronic gadget on Amazon only to find that the best-sellers are brands you’ve never heard of. Sometimes the products are legit, The New York Times has found — they’re made by manufacturers that have cut out the middleman and rely exclusively on Amazon to sell, then obsessively monitor feedback to refine their products.
But others are low-quality knock-offs, as evidenced by Apple’s 2016 lawsuit claiming that 90 percent of the iPhone chargers billed as “authentic” on Amazon were actually fakes and could catch on fire or even shock users. The best advice: Stick with name brands sold and shipped by Amazon.
