Thanks for all the good info guys. I'm surprised i've never heard anything about Amazon's inventory management.
This explains why there are so many conflicting reviews for a lot of items I have bought in the past (ie several people saying the items they got where clearly low quality garbage and others saying it was genuine. )
I always assumed I was relatively safe buying items like flash drives, sd cards, etc if they were directly from Amazon. I guess for critical easily counterfeited items I should be looking elsewhere.
This explains why there are so many conflicting reviews for a lot of items I have bought in the past (ie several people saying the items they got where clearly low quality garbage and others saying it was genuine. )
I always assumed I was relatively safe buying items like flash drives, sd cards, etc if they were directly from Amazon. I guess for critical easily counterfeited items I should be looking elsewhere.