Tell us long they last.
Just because it says
genuine means squat. If it was removed it’s possible they were bootlegged, maybe stolen, or being sold outside of a marketing agreement, which might make them genuine.
I remember when there used to be
genuine Louis Vuitton purses sold on eBay described as new for 50% off. Right...
This was when I was actively seaking ways to save money on a real purse for my wife. Of note Louis Vuitton does not make their purses available for purse parties or sell them to third parties to sell discounted. I turned in 5 ads that said
genuine and all were removed. This is a real danger for all designer labels and many electronic products out of the orient. I’ve thrown away my fare share of inexpensive, short lived Apple compatible cables and chargers. No they did not say Apple, but they were all junk. But even if it says Apple, this might mean nothing.
I'm amazed at this comment. I can understand a fraudster company spending dollars on elaborate packaging for a bag worth hundreds of dollars. But, these are less than $8 AUD, for 3 including postage from Australia. Apart from the fact that a microscopic evaluation says these are Apple. To mock up a box with perfect on shelf Apple packaging with their special plastic seals and highly produced leaflets, would cost more than the $2 that they are charging for the headphones.
Must be fake, must be stolen, cannot be true, Apple would never take advantage of their customers. I remember complaining when they were $19 dollars because the Apple ones always eventually wear out at the plug. People would point out the R and D, the chip, the higher quality, blah blah, all true. But Apple are making these on a scale of hundreds of millions. for iPads, pods, phones, and these hundreds of millions of users are going to want spare cables, now all these years later Apple Australia are charging more. $29. This is freaking ridiculous.
Apple don't give a rat's that fake cables are freely advertised on ebay, indeed they are happy for people to discover that these crap cables are crap. But that Apple actually bothered to send eBay a takedown notice, for the only reason I can see that they are so freaking cheap, and obviously Apple.
After the product arrived eBay sent me a letter saying the product cannot be supplied and removed the ad, but I already had them and already confirmed they are the real deal. Which is why I wrote to the seller and they sent me a copy of the Apple take down complaint they sent to eBay. However they are back up now, and I've just bought another 3, will post close up photos when they arrive.
Hey, I'm a bit Apple fan, in spite of having a dodgy G4500, and eMac with the leaking capacitor problem fixed for free, 2 18 month old G5's that suddenly both got consumed with the horizontal lines of death that was a major kerfuffle on the communities. A current rMBP that had a logic board replaced after one month, and another logic board and also a screen. Oh I forgot about my refurb 2012 27" iMac that had a free out of warranty faulty graphics card. I'm just saying all this because I'm not posting this because I'm a hater. I was just dumfounded that Apple would go to this level of pettiness while not caring about all the obvious fakes, for the only reason that they are worryingly cheap and people might realise that while Apple stuff is a huge step up from the crappy fake garbage cables, $90 for three lighting cables, is complete robbery and greed above and beyond what I consider OK.
Other sellers also have cheap genuine cables not as cheap as these but still cheap. Have they all stolen them? Regretfully I have to admit that Apple are going a bit weird. Still love their stuff though.
EDIT: forgot to say that the fact they are back up means that the seller successfully proved they are legit.
