Progressive Dynamics knockoffs

[Jetstreamer]

Just bought a new converter off of Amazon and after I get it home I find out that it doesn't have a serial number on it. According to Progressive Dynamics it's some sort of a knockoff product and they won't warranty it. They tell me it's illegal for Amazon and this third party vendor to be selling these.
So back it goes tomorrow.....already had it installed....Maybe this has been addressed on this forum I don't know.

[myredracer]

Bestconverter.com is a popular and respected vendor of converters and other electrical products. From their website: We have been notified by Progressive Dynamics, Inc. that many PDI converter products are being sold by unauthorized dealers on Amazon and auction type sites without serial numbers and not packaged in the correct boxes.

We recently bought a PD converter from bestconverter because of their excellent reputation and that we'd get a full factory warranty. Buying electronics from Amazon or ebay can be a bad idea (esp. on warranty). Ebay is riddled with knockoff products and it's easy to get taken if not careful. I bought a new 30 amp power inlet from ebay and the listing said it was a "replacement for a Conntek inlet" but as it turned out this didn't mean this item was a Conntek product. :M Ebay doesn't give a care...

I hope the OP is able to get a refund.

[wa8yxm]

You can find fake most anyhting. Even medications you can buy fake drugs, the tablet looks just like the real thing, tastes just like the real thing, has no medical benefit and you die as a result.

That's how bad it is.

[edatlanta]

FrankShore wrote:

darsben1 wrote:
Did you buy directly from Amazon or an Amazon vendor?
If an Amazon vendor call Amazon and let them know. Amazon will give them the boot quickly.

Correct, they will ban that vendor from ever selling on Amazon again! Had the same problem once and poof, they were gone!

Until the vendor changes their name and is back again. But we all have to try and make sure we don't support these crooks.

[Cydog15]

darsben1 wrote:
Did you buy directly from Amazon or an Amazon vendor?
If an Amazon vendor call Amazon and let them know. Amazon will give them the boot quickly.

That is the problem, Amazon will not give them the boot because they don't care if you get screwed. Got bit too awhile back and now only use Bestconverter for our fleet because I know they are the real deal, real people and you can talk to them. I was on here about 15 years ago when I first learned of Best converter and should have stuck with them. Actually I kinda did, just forgot when we changed needs for awhile. Ray or Randy (I think is his name) is accessible, rare in this day and age.

[ktmrfs]

from the PD website etc. it's not clear that they are knockoffs, as much as they are not being sold by an authorized distributor and maybe are grey market, or purchased from a dist at and being sold by non authorized dist so they remove the SN and/or put them in a different box.

SN is likely being removed to prevent it from being traced backwards. Likely the SN was removed by not the final seller, but by someone that was unloading them to a third party and doesn't want to get caught.

Non the less, send it back and notify amazon.

Sounds a lot like typical grey market item where a legit item gets picked up in some kind of fire sale, inventory reduction, bankruptcy then gets unloaded by a non authorized dealer. Pretty common with clothes, jewerly, watches etc.

[rdmike]

Bought mine from tweety's good price.

[FrankShore]

darsben1 wrote:
Did you buy directly from Amazon or an Amazon vendor?
If an Amazon vendor call Amazon and let them know. Amazon will give them the boot quickly.

Correct, they will ban that vendor from ever selling on Amazon again! Had the same problem once and poof, they were gone!

[darsben1]

Did you buy directly from Amazon or an Amazon vendor?
If an Amazon vendor call Amazon and let them know. Amazon will give them the boot quickly.

[Shadow_Catcher]

There are fakes for pretty much everything, ran into some fake grade 8 bolts.

[BFL13]

http://www.bestconverter.com/Progressive-Dynamics-Inteli-Power-Converters_c_81.html

[SoundGuy]

Lots of knockoffs being sold by online vendors. 😞 I wanted to replace the LCI tongue jack on my Coachmen with an Ultrafab, a model I had previously owned ... looking on Amazon and eBay I almost got sucked into buying any one of a number of knockoffs that looked identical but on closer inspection were not Ultrafab. :M I passed and ordered an authentic Ultrafab through my dealer ... more costly, but it's not a knockoff. :B

[agesilaus]

Well Amazon will take it back anyway.

[Jetstreamer]

gbopp wrote:
I thought imitation was the sincerest form of flattery? :B

Was the converter advertised on Amazon as a PD?

Yes it looks like an identical product...Label and all but no serial number tag.
So PD says it's not legit and no warranty.

[gbopp]

I thought imitation was the sincerest form of flattery? :B

Was the converter advertised on Amazon as a PD?