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44. See my reply below to Randy. A Honda part is not the same thing as short notice women's clothing.

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Now, sometimes when you order those parts, you are getting knockoff or grey market parts that might not be an exact fit or have the same material properties as an OEM part from the dealer. It's just like laptop batteries. Most of them sold on the major online auction houses are knockoff Chinese imports that look so close to the original part that sometimes even the dealers get fooled. BoingBoing did a whole thing on this a few years back, traveling to China and witnessing this going down on the street at night in a manufacturing district. Folks buying those batteries often do not have the safety counter which disables them after so many recharges to prevent fires. Others will get batteries and find that they die within six months. Just because stuff is sold online, and sold thought Amazon, does not mean it's legit. I've gotten several items that were "re-gifted" and reused while being sold as new, and I did not return them because they was still functional.

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