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Counterfeiting has gone rampant generally. I’ve received counterfeit parts on one occasion when I purchased directly from the manufacturer. They had an employee in their supply chain that was substituting counterfeits for the real deal and pocketing the difference, since the manufacture didn’t re-QC from their suppliers, they got commingled in the pool of legit parts. Amazon has massive issues with SKU commingling causing counterfeits to be shipped to buyers from legit vendors.
Boeing is not the only company that checks QC of their suppliers. I know. I’ve had to institute that system at two different companies I’ve worked for, one a manufacture of building supplies for residential construction and the other a computer storage manufacturer. Both had issues with tainted supply chains prior to incurring the large expense of re-QCing every batch of parts and materials they get from suppliers.
I have my beliefs as to why this has become an issue, but I will keep it to myself. I will just say that there’s no perfect solution as a customer, but I sure as fuck am never putting parts off eBay, Wish, or AliExpress on my car.
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