The AirPods have undoubtedly become over time the best wireless headphones we can buy. This has caused counterfeits to abound in the market and if we are unlucky they may try to sell us a counterfeit unit but under the pretext that it is original. In this article we explain how you can check if the AirPods that you are going to buy or that you already have in your possession are original or not.
Check the AirPods box
Although counterfeits are increasingly being used to deceive customers, the truth is that there are very characteristic details of these fake products. One of them is in the packaging of the AirPods box. Normally the counterfeits that are sealed have a poor quality plastic and totally irregular especially at the bottom. If your AirPods have this type of plastic with irregular edges, you should definitely start to be suspicious since the plastic that surrounds the original AirPods is completely smooth without irregularities.
Another aspect that we can check in the box is the label. Many of the boxes that hold fake AirPods are very similar, with the same design on the sides and on the front with the silhouette of the headphones. But where it is possible that it ‘fails’ is in the label that we find on one of the sides. In the case of the original AirPods Apple always leaves an empty hole in the upper left corner of the side. But this does not happen in counterfeits since it is almost always about filling with many labels and some even in Chinese.
From Apple they always maintain the same aesthetics in the labeling of their products and that is why if there is any variance we must be suspicious at the moment.
Check serial number on the Apple website
Apple makes available to customers a space on its website where you can enter the serial number of a computer to check the status of support . This is a tool that can be used to see if the serial number is recognized by the system as authentic. To find the serial number of the AirPods we can go to the box itself and on the sticker on the side to the right we will see the serial number above the barcode. If we do not have it, we can find it in the AirPods case itself inside the cover itself.
When entering the serial number, if it is recognized, an image of the AirPods and the information regarding the warranty will appear. An error reporting a problem may occur on the date of product purchase . This can occur when AirPods have not been purchased from Apple or have been replaced. It is important to update this information with the invoice in hand in order to have the corresponding guarantee, if it still corresponds to you.
But if, on the contrary, it tells you that the serial number is not recognized in the system, you will undoubtedly be facing a forgery.
Quality of AirPods
Something that you can think of at first is that when you want to link the counterfeit AirPods with the iPhone we will see if they are authentic or not. This is false, because due to the chip they incorporate, the same characteristic configuration message will appear . This is why you should resort to checking the quality of the materials and also the audio itself. The latter can be somewhat difficult to verify since we must have original reference AirPods to know how they sound.
One of the most important aspects is to check that you do not feel the touch of the plastic. Plastic is the characteristic construction material of counterfeit AirPods so we must know how to detect it by touch.
Be wary of impossible offers
Price is one of the most attractive aspects of counterfeit AirPods. This is why you should always be wary of those offers that seem impossible and that are not made in trusted stores. One of the most controversial sites where we see more counterfeit AirPods in Wallapop where a ridiculous price stands out compared to the official one.
This is why we always recommend you to buy from trusted stores, and if you go to this type of services it is important to use the secure payment systems that these online stores offer us. In this way we can return the money that the AirPods have cost us in the event that we verify that they are counterfeits.
