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Excellent experience all around except for ONE HUGE problematic issue that spans across all of the Amazon products. KNOCK OFFS being sold on Amazon directly from China. I'm surprised Amazon doesn't do a better job of preventing knock offs from being sold on their website.

Since the majority of American companies manufacture in China, the Chinese will either copycat the American designs or they will re-sell any samples or over-production of the American designs through Amazon. Which means they are stealing profit from the REAL American companies.

You'll know it's a knock off if it takes 2-3 weeks for the item to ship, and when you check your package, you'll find a Chinese address in the "sent from" section instead of an American address. You usually won't find out if it's a knock off until after you've completed checkout, and the biggest hint it's a knock off is that it takes 2-3 weeks to ship.

It took me a while to catch on to this, because I had wrongly assumed all products shipped from within the U.S., but now that I am aware of this problem, I've actually been less confident in buying things from Amazon.

Now, instead of buying directly from Amazon, I'll look for products on Amazon, using it like a library or dictionary of different types of products, and from there, identify which company makes the product. Then I'll go directly to the product's company site and buy straight from them so I know that I'm getting the real thing instead of a knock off.

So far I prefer my new way of using Amazon, as a library of things, and then googling to find the actual company and buying directly from the Company instead of through all the fake knock off...

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