How many people on here buy straps from eBay, and how has your experience been?

In the past week while browsing bands on eBay I’ve come across a couple that were described as genuine Apple OEM bands but were clearly not (pic of one attached). I reported them and eBay responded that they looked into it and found no violation. So there are loads of good, authentic Apple bands but a few bad apples, too (pardon the pun). I am disappointed that eBay doesn’t see a problem in allowing this.
 

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SusieS said:
In the past week while browsing bands on eBay I’ve come across a couple that were described as genuine Apple OEM bands but were clearly not (pic of one attached). I reported them and eBay responded that they looked into it and found no violation. So there are loads of good, authentic Apple bands but a few bad apples, too (pardon the pun). I am disappointed that eBay doesn’t see a problem in allowing this.
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Dang they used an android wear strap!!!! Be wary of false advertising y’all!!!
 
Once you know what to look for it's really easy to find good deals on eBay, but there are definitely still certain bands that are more difficult to come across even through eBay at which point you have to go through places like r/applebandmarket or the Apple Watch band discord server and basically just word of mouth. There's a lot of telltale signs that OEM bands have which aftermarket ones will never bother with due to costs, and you can basically filter out all of the fake garbage on eBay by putting:

-(for,replacement,compatible)

At the end of your search terms. So if you were looking for a 42 mm woven nylon for example, it would look like:

Apple Woven Nylon -(for,replacement,compatible)

And this will basically remove all listings that have the word four, replacement, or compatible in it, which are super common generic search terms used by these cheap resellers to basically catch as many possible searches. Some will still get through that don't utilize those words because they are in a different language for example, but this cuts out like 90% of the crap.
 
Stella_Fudge said:
Once you know what to look for it's really easy to find good deals on eBay, but there are definitely still certain bands that are more difficult to come across even through eBay at which point you have to go through places like r/applebandmarket or the Apple Watch band discord server and basically just word of mouth. There's a lot of telltale signs that OEM bands have which aftermarket ones will never bother with due to costs, and you can basically filter out all of the fake garbage on eBay by putting:

-(for,replacement,compatible)

At the end of your search terms. So if you were looking for a 42 mm woven nylon for example, it would look like:

Apple Woven Nylon -(for,replacement,compatible)

And this will basically remove all listings that have the word four, replacement, or compatible in it, which are super common generic search terms used by these cheap resellers to basically catch as many possible searches. Some will still get through that don't utilize those words because they are in a different language for example, but this cuts out like 90% of the crap.
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Nice! 👌🏻 thanks for the advice. I learnt something from my librarians at school that when we search for something like resources, books and various search engines we use Boolean inclusion and exclusion in search terms. We use something like NOT to exclude terms or AND to include something else in search terms.
 
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