[sthpawil]

Fake eBay Item Updates:

A) NGK Spark Plugs - I returned the fake spark plugs to the eBay seller, and I was promptly issued a refund. In order to warn other potential buyers, I left the seller a nuetral feedback stating "Fake Counterfeit NGK 1ZFR5K11 3657. Seller refunded. Buyer beware." One day later, eBay removed my feedback from the seller's feedback rating. Very disappointing. I have since gone to the listing and chose the "Report Item" feature in order to advise eBay of the counterfeit listing.

B) Honda Timing Belt Water Pump Kit - Interestingly, the buyer that I originally purchased the supposedly OEM Honda timing belt kit from cancelled the order and issued me a refund upon my request, but then accidentally sent the kit to me anyway. Yep, they were counterfeit parts as well. One of the funniest things is that they used the same label on five of the parts (same UPC code, same part code)... they only thing that they changed was the part number. I will be posting comparison photos in the coming days.

NOTE: My 2007 Owner's Manual lists two spark plugs: NGK 1ZFR5K-11 and DENSO PKJ16DR-M11

 

[Ted]

Fake eBay Item Updates:

A) NGK Spark Plugs - I returned the fake spark plugs to the eBay seller, and I was promptly issued a refund. In order to warn other potential buyers, I left the seller a nuetral feedback stating "Fake Counterfeit NGK 1ZFR5K11 3657. Seller refunded. Buyer beware." One day later, eBay removed my feedback from the seller's feedback rating. Very disappointing. I have since gone to the listing and chose the "Report Item" feature in order to advise eBay of the counterfeit listing.

B) Honda Timing Belt Water Pump Kit - Interestingly, the buyer that I originally purchased the supposedly OEM Honda timing belt kit from cancelled the order and issued me a refund upon my request, but then accidentally sent the kit to me anyway. Yep, they were counterfeit parts as well. One of the funniest things is that they used the same label on five of the parts (same UPC code, same part code)... they only thing that they changed was the part number. I will be posting comparison photos in the coming days.

NOTE: My 2007 Owner's Manual lists two spark plugs: NGK 1ZFR5K-11 and DENSO PKJ16DR-M11

Thanks for trying to warn others. Unfortunately, it seems eBay wants the sales more than the truth.

 

[WiiMaster]

NOTE: My 2007 Owner's Manual lists two spark plugs: NGK 1ZFR5K-11 and DENSO PKJ16DR-M11

This seems to be pretty common. My 2010 Accord's manual does the same thing.

 

[jiantao]

NGK or Denso are pretty much interchangeable. I wouldn't have concern going with either and would just use whatever is cheaper. Denso was cheaper for my Toyota, so I went with that for that car. For the Odyssey... I couldn't find the exact Denso plugs listed on RockAuto so I just went with the NGK.

 

[0dyfamily]

This counterfeit business is getting out of hand. This is not automotive in nature, but it goes to show that red chinese trash masquerading as normal good products are all over the place.

I purchased what appeared to be three OEM Canon LC-E6 battery chargers from an ebay seller, and at first glance they looked just like the one that came in the box with my Canon 5D Mark IV.

Upon further scrutiny, there were differences. First, the "roll mark" is an alpha-only serial or block number, but this one was printed, and all three had the same printed characters; giving benefit of the doubt, they could be from the same block of production. My wife's EOS 90D had a charger in the box with a similar set of printed ID characters, but the font thickness and spacing seemed to differ from the ebay chargers.

As well, some of the UL Japan nomenclature was off in terms of sharpness of printing on the label on the back of the ebay chargers. The OEM Canon charger that came with my camera had the label on the back perfectly aligned. I could not say the same for the ebay chargers, but unless I was closely looking, I would have missed it.

Anyways, I loaded fully charged OEM Canon batteries into each one, and the LED charge indicator flashed at a frequency that was different from the genuine OEM-came-in-the-box-with-the-camera charger, and the ebay chargers indicated that the batteries were depleted. No, they weren't! Also, the ebay chargers immediately got pretty hot. Contacted the seller, asked for an RMA and refund. Their reply, in short, was "Okay, we'll refund you the full price and you can keep them."



Ooooo-kay. I disassembled one as I was going to 5h1t-can them anyways. Out of four electrical contacts that align with the battery's contacts (2 for charging, 2 for communicating with the battery chipset), only two were actually connected to the circuit board (charging only), and the two communications contacts were not connected to anything. Also, there was a lot of empty space in the charger, and it weighed maybe 60% of what the genuine charger weighed.

If red chinese counterfeiters actually spent as much time making a properly licensed and operating product as they do trying to make a 5h1tty product "look legit", they might actually gain some righteous market share.

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