How do you know if the brands you're seeing on Amazon are going to be authentic when delivered?
I know that Amazon sells a lot of products from lesser-known brands, and I want to make sure I am getting high-quality products. How will I know if a brand is going to be authentic?
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Here's the thing- you don't. Amazon does not care. There is no quality control over sellers or brands. It's easy to find a thousand sellers with most bad reviews and they still sell.
You can be not-dumb. If a product by Brand X is usually $300 and you find it for $150, unless it comes guaranteed (and even then, read that fine print) it's probably fake/refurbished/used.
Read all the reviews, except the 5-star. A LOT of companies have employees and paid reviewers, especially shady ones. I get emails all the time asking for me to buy a garbage product, give it a good review and they'll reimburse me. Seriously. Read those 2 and 3 star reviews carefully, the read the 1-stars.
See where stuff is shipping out of and where the company is based. Some countries don't really care about other people's IP.
Look up the the thing you are buying else where. If you're buy, say, N95 mask, check the brand against the NIOSH's website. Look up "brand/product sucks" and see what people say not on the site.
In the end, you really can't be 100% sure unless you buy something from the manufacturer directly.
And even then...I once bought a blanket that was supposed to be 3 shades of gray. When it arrived it was beige and gray and shoddily made. I contacted the company and they insisted it was, really, 3 shades of gray. I'm bad at a lot of things, but I have a very good eye for color.... and this thing was obviously beige and still poorly made. Amazon refunded me the money, but the point was the description was wrong, the product was bad and the company making it didn't care.