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Or headphones.

Amazon is not an authorized seller of apple products.

Hopefully you don't expect the average consumer to realize this, when they are clearly selling Apple products.

Are you sure? Amazon were on Apple's official list of authorized internet resellers back in June 2016, before the page was deleted from Apple's website:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160609091210/http://salesresour...

It's not clear whether this refers to products on Amazon that claim to be made by Apple, or products on Amazon that just work with Apple products. As for the latter, I have bought a lot of Lightning cables and USB chargers and batteries from Amazon, mostly made by Anker, and I've never had an issue.