LogFAQs > #967417131

At least with the flash drives it's pretty easy to spot the fakes. First off, they never have a brand name. Secondly, if the price is too good to be true, it probably is. You can't buy a 2 TB hard drive for less than $50 and a name brand 2 TB portable SSD starts at $190, so there's no way you're going to get a 2 TB flash drive for $25.

A smart crook would give their fake product a real-sounding name and charge just slightly less than the legit product. Anyone who knows anything about computers would be wary of a $25 Flash Drive, but I bet a lot of pros would probably fall for a $175 Storage Ninja flash drive.

Phone batteries used to have a real problem with fakes, back in the days when you could actually replace them. They'd sell "OEM" batteries, but if you ordered one they turned out to be used, water damaged, or just plain fake. Samsung used to put water detection stickers on their batteries that would change color if the phone got wet, so you could tell a replacement battery was damaged or a fake because the sticker would be missing, had changed color, or was obviously printed on an inkjet. But you could only do this after you got the product, there was no way to tell before ordering.