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CBP seized a shipment of OnePlus Buds thinking they were “counterfeit” Apple AirPods – TechCrunch
The “seized” Apple AirPods look a lot like OnePlus Buds.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection proudly announced in a press release on Friday a seizure of 2,000 boxes of “counterfeit” Apple AirPods, said to be worth about $400,000, from a shipment at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
But the photos in the press release appear to show boxes of OnePlus Buds, the wireless earphones made by smartphone maker OnePlus, and not Apple AirPods as CBP had claimed.
Here’s CBP’s photo of the allegedly counterfeit goods:
And this is what a box of OnePlus Buds lo…
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