Huh, who'd of thought Genuine Leather would branch out into the tech industry.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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Working on a machine that BSOD'd 3-4 times a week, couldn't find much wrong but then I saw this. An NVME drive from a company named "OEMGenuine".
Their website 404's, waybackmachine says it was last cached 2 years ago, and even then it was a broken Godaddy landing page.
Found in a Thinkpad purchased from Amazon, sold by a third-party reseller who "upgrades" the devices before reselling.
Machine seems just fine/stable with a credible drive in it.
What's the craziest shady "brand" name you've seen in the wild?
EDIT: NEW Discovery! One of the ancient waybackmachine cached pages previously redirected to oemgenuine.NET! It's shoddy as hell but the .net domain is still visible today! oemgenuine.net
I love the genuine naming scheme for scams like this. If something is genuine it doesn't need to be labeled as genuine. You don't order a "genuine" burger from a restaurant, you don't buy a "genuine" BMW from a dealership, you don't get hired by a "genuine" company...
Intel has been identifying their chips with "Genuine Intel" for quite some time, that brought the term into the IT zeitgeist.
I'm not sure that "AuthenticAMD" is any better. There's probably an entire table of words like this that we should be wary of.
That said, this took me down a small rabbit hole of CPUIDs. I want one with "AMDisbetter!" Or "CyrixInstead"
And it's not even that long ago their CPUs began genuinely committing ~~seppuku!~~ ~~unalive!~~ uh.. failing
I think it was cheese nips that had “Real™️ Cheese” on the box where Real is the company name.
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Real_Seal
The Real Seal appears on products that are made with 100% U.S. cow's milk
"100% US" will never cease being funny to me, the US is a fucking continent! Imagine if we in europe had "100% european milk!", only place you wouldn't see that seal is like, greece and bulgaria because they might import turkish milk..
I mean- North America is a continent- and the "U.S." is only a portion of that continent..
This reminds me of my last company's DNS management site, aka "secureserver.net"
Felt like I was getting phished every time I logged in
GoDaddy DNS? /Shiver
I have a friend who once brought back an "iPhone" from China for laughs.
Ha, With reskinned Android 4 I presume
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I once had a zune that looked like a zune, used the zune software on windows to load mp3 but it was like 1/5 of the price. It was quite buggy but the og zune also was. I'm convinced it was a knockoff but it didn't felt bad. I lost it when someone broke into my car and stole it along with a nice jacket and a rubber chicken.
Uh why would someone steal a rubber chicken?
I mean. If a person's already broken a car window and stolen a zune, and sees a rubber chicken on the seat.. wouldn't you? Hehehe
Assembled in Mexico?
Nothing too odd about that. For example, Bose assembles some of its most successful products (such as the Soundlink revolve) in Mexico, regardless of the target market.