The greatest thing about Amazon is their return policy.

 

Terrible back alley fake. In addition to returning the watch through Amazon, I’d also message the seller directly.

 

It was sold by Amazon, shipped by Amazon. I've bought discounted/returned stuff from Amazon Warehouse, but this was sold as new.

 

The most shocking thing is someone would fake a Citizen.

 

There are fake Casio F91s....

 

my guess is that someone bought a real one then sent back a fake for refund

I think that's a good theory. You probably should mention that with the return so it doesn't get sold off again.

 

Looks like you got a premium Citizan watch.

 

Likely case is that someone bought a wish.com “citizen” and another from Amazon. Then did a return of the Amazon.

Or the Amazon store selling this watch is peddling fake crap. What’s the name of the store?

 

Sold and shipped direct from Amazon. I’m not here to put down Amazon as they sell millions of items and have a great return policy. I do though think it was a resold return. Never had an issue like this before.

 

I bought two F91-w's from Amazon. They were too cheap, though in a sale. I was half expecting them to be moody. Subsequently confirmed 🤦

But for kids crackers presents, absolutely fine.

 

That thing is just horrible, imagine if someone who didn't know better got it...

 

I think that's the whole idea. Hoping that eventually someone will just keep it and wear it.

 

A few months ago I purchased two of those 4" (?) outdoor LED floodlights.
The correct box arrived but inside it were two 2" bulbs, and without the proper packing they were both broken.

Amazon had no problem sending me more, but they did request I return the two busted bulbs.

 

Amazon is now full of fakes and counterfeits in all product categories. They should really sort that out, I quit shopping there ages ago.

 

Amazon is trying to compete with eBay for "What is real, and what is Junk" superiority.........

 

Issue is, unless SPECIFICALLY requested by manufacturers, Amazon warehouse has only 1 bin which puts both Sold by Amazon products as well as third party supplied products as long as UPC code matches. This causes unscrupulous 3rd party sellers to send in obvious (and not so obvious) fakes in and the warehouse workers will just put that into your box. Of course, this could also be the case of returned item with wrong thing in the box as well.

I remember buying Timken Wheel bearings for my car from Autozone and 3 times(!!), I received OBVIOUSLY used bearings. 3rd one, I opened the box right at the store and it did not even have outer race on the bearing - obvious it was used as often outer race is punched out of the knuckle.

 

THIS is the explanation. Watchuseekers need to learn about Amazon's stock comingling system and all the fakery it enables. It's not a problem with a specific watch, it's a problem across nearly all Amazon products, including inexpensive items like lotions or face masks. As long as there's a demand, there will be fakes made and sold. And thanks to the system they have created, Amazon literally (and perhaps purposefully) can't do anything about it.

 

Unfortunate. I purchased that watch (a real one) on Amazon a while back. (On a Borealis strap now). Fun watch, I really enjoy it. Get a real one!

 

Maybe I should not pull the trigger on this:

 

Yikes. Heard of this happening with third party vendors, but never with Amazon as a seller. Glad there's the return policy.

 

Bummer man. Glad you can return and get at least a little satisfaction.

 

I had a similar thing happen though not with a watch. Bought a micro sd card off Amazon, a 1Tb when sandisk first came out with them. New and sold by Amazon. It came in the correctly labeled blister pack, but someone had carefully, but noticeably, opened it and sealed it with a 32Gb card. Amazon let me keep the wrong one and sent out the correct one ASAP.

I’m not a huge Amazon fan, but they do handle mistakes very well!

CW

 

Does the watch you tried to buy look really like that, out of interest?

 

I’ll go for the old return switcheroo theory.

 

Thankfully it being fake didn’t make it your new favorite watch!

 

I can about guarantee that workers in the Amazon return department really don't care if a fake is returned then repackaged to sell again. It's not like they're experts in every product and can spot a fake with a cursory glance. If their job is anything like Amazon drivers they're forced to do ten hours' work in an eight hour day.