Alibaba garbage exists because the modern manufacturing and logistics economy makes it easy to deploy that stuff, and it overwhelms very similar looking quality stuff.
You can shop sold-by-Amazon.com only if you only want highly reputatable stuff
You can shop sold-by-Amazon.com only if you only want highly reputatable stuff
"For Faster Shipping, Items Are Commingled at Warehouses, Opening the Door to Knockoffs" (https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-op...).
Basically if a third party seller says it's a "Genuine Apple iPhone Charger" (whether it is or not) and the packaging looks real enough, it gets thrown in with all the other sellers (including Amazon) who have genuine chargers.
Thus "sold by Amazon.com" means just what it says - "sold" by. Not "sourced" by...
I'm also waiting to see if I get banned for "abusing" their return policy which legitimate customers have reported happening.
Trendy brands of clothes or accessories don't even bother. Supposedly real brand name ICs and small electrical components, completely hopeless.
Throw in the fact that they don't notify you when your shipping times changes and it almost always seems to push out a day or two as soon as you purchase it and I've practically quit shopping on Amazon unless I can't find it anywhere else or I don't care about the quality that I'm getting.