{"id":65600,"date":"2016-10-19T16:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=65600"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:31:50","slug":"the-trouble-with-fake-apple-chargers-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-trouble-with-fake-apple-chargers-on-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"The trouble with fake Apple chargers on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/md836.jpeg\" alt=\"md836\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/md836.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/md836-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/md836-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/md836-450x225.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of Apple chargers on the market, but not all of them are genuine. Apple recently stated in a lawsuit that <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/10\/19\/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-cables\/\">more than 90%<\/a> of the so-called genuine Apple accessories that they found on Amazon were actually counterfeits. Here is Apple&#8217;s complaint:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Counterfeit power products&#8230; pose an immediate threat to consumer safety, because&#8230; they are not subjected to industry-standard consumer safety testing and are poorly constructed with inferior or missing components, flawed design and inadequate electrical insulation. These counterfeits have the potential to overheat, catch fire, and deliver a deadly electric shock to consumers while in normal use.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can buy a heck of a lot on Amazon, but the sheer scale of their operation means that it&#8217;s difficult for their staff to ensure everything is legitimate. Even for items that are fulfilled by Amazon, you can often found counterfeit goods in lieu of the real deal. It&#8217;s not just Apple chargers either &#8212; we&#8217;ve heard similar complaints from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spigen.co.uk\/counterfeit-products\">Spigen<\/a> and other accessory retailers in the past.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why going with a smaller retailer &#8212; like Mobile Fun &#8212; can be a better choice. Everything on our shelves has been carefully chosen and tested by our Products department; you will only find\u00a0<em>good<\/em> options here. Suffice it to say, all of our Apple accessories are genuine items.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this article has been interesting. If you have any questions or comments, please share them below. Thanks for reading and have a good week!<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of Apple chargers on the market, but not all of them are genuine. Apple recently stated in a lawsuit that more than 90% of the so-called genuine Apple accessories that they found on Amazon were actually counterfeits. Here is Apple&#8217;s complaint:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":65608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8208,6],"tags":[194,7972,7209,7208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65609,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65600\/revisions\/65609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}