Of course if it's "brand"-usa or something iterative you should check.
When this happened to me 13 years ago it was kind of different. Amazon didn't offer returns on memory products and the vendor display name was a non unique settable string, different from their URL stub corresponding to their username.
Amazon gave me their condolences after I forwarded them the conversation from Kingston's warranty department exposing the fraud but not my money back.
They've gotten better on all these fronts.
Additionally they used to be flooded with lookalike frauds in memory up until a few years ago. You'd have the mysterious Sannsung or SamDisk products. They've cracked down on that too.
And lastly there are other major etailers that don't do this third party retail stuff
Is it just me?
edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 explains it
I see this belief in a lot of younger co-workers. Newsflash: You're highly likely to outlive your ability to work. If your plan is to die the day after you retire, that may happen, but in all likelihood you won't, and not having savings is going to end up unpleasantly for you. Save for retirement, people!
my retirement plan is an overdose.