I will continue to buy off Amazon especially when sold by Amazon. The only saving grace of orders fulfilled by Amazon is that the return policy does seem to favor the purchaser. But now I obviously have a different opinion. Before, I would have said Amazon prime orders fulfilled by Amazon are safe. In my nearly 20 years of ordering from Amazon, this is the first true fake product I ever received. Amazon does not have enough controls on product inventory that is not theirs and customers can get burned. There is probably one retailer that has the fake Vortex Optics Razor HD AMG 6-24×50 MRAD scopes in the Amazon inventory system and my order was simply pulled from that stock.Įither way, this highlights the dangers of “Fulfilled by Amazon” orders. The second possibility is that Amazon fulfilled my order using the collective inventory of all third-party vendors that are selling Vortex Optics Razor HD AMG 6-24×50 MRAD scopes. They kept the real scope and the fake scope was reinserted into the Amazon inventory. One is that a person bought a Vortex Optics Razor HD AMG 6-24×50 MRAD scope from Amazon and returned this fake one for a refund. So one of two things happened that resulted in me getting this fake. Fortunately, Amazon accepted the return and refunded the money. I immediately contacted Amazon and arranged for a return for refund based on the fact that the scope is clearly fake/counterfeit. ?Ī post shared by Jonathan Ocab on at 6:06pm PDTīut upon opening the box, it was painfully obvious the box was a mock-up Vortex Optics box and the scope inside was some random Chinese-made no-name scope with a 3-9x magnification. ? Fortunately, Amazon gave me a full refund. I’m guessing someone bought a real AMG off Amazon, returned a fake Vortex scope which then got inserted into Amazon’s inventory, and that’s what got sent to me. I have purchased optics including Vortex from that same vendor. I bought it from Amazon fulfilled by Amazon but sold by a third party who is actually reputable. It was some printed out Vortex Optics card/label and inside it was some random crap Made in China scope. I deleted the post after I opened up the box to discover it was a fake Vortex scope. Last Friday I posted this pic of a new Vortex Razor HD AMG 6-24x I bought for my project in the works.

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