what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video i'm going to show
you how to easily spot the fake apple airpods stream these ones here are real but these two
are fake and the fake ones seem to get better and better all the time now the easiest way to
make sure you're buying the real ones of course would be to buy them directly from apple or an
authorized reseller like walmart amazon best buy etc but for those of you that want to buy them
somewhere else and maybe save a few dollars well i'll show you some tips to make sure you're buying
the real ones and you're not buying the fake ones so let's start with the box okay so the boxes from
the fake ones and the real ones do look quite similar the font on the fake ones of course is a
bit different but you're not gonna be able to tell that if you don't have both boxes in hand your
best bet when looking at the box is to look at the stickers on the side of the box on the original
box the stickers will always be straight where on the fake ones the stickers most of the time
aren't that straight so that should be your first tip that you're looking at some fake ones if those
stickers on the box aren't exactly straight the next thing you should look for are those seals on
the back of the box so the ones that you have to break in order to open the box for the first time
so those ones on the fake box are actually made out of paper and when you start pulling on them
they're gonna break into pieces on the original box those are actually made out of this plastified
paper so they never break when you pull them off so that should be one of the biggest clues
that you're looking at the fake box if those break whenever you're trying to open the box
for the first time so the original ones shouldn't break when you pull them off inside the boxes of
course you're gonna find the user manuals and even though the user manual from the fake box is using
a somewhat different font you're not gonna be able to tell if you don't have both user manuals side
by side now just underneath those user manuals you're gonna find the charging cases and you're
gonna have to pay attention to that plastic wrap that we have on those charging cases
the fake ones never get that plastic wrap the right way so look at the differences between
the plastic wrap on the original ones and on the fake ones and i think i've tried over 20 fake ones
up until now and not a single one had that plastic wrap done right so that should be a pretty good
tip that you're looking at some fake ones if that plastic wrap isn't done the right way the next
thing you should look out for is the material of that thing that holds the charging cases in place
so for the original box that's actually made out of cardboard or some type of hard paper
where on the fake box that's actually made out of cheap plastic so very easy to spot if that's
made out of plastic you're almost certain looking at some fake ones if you remove that from the box
you're gonna be able to see the charging cable and if you look at the charging cable from the
original box the charging cable isn't gonna move around so it's fixed in the box there even if you
shake the box that charging cable is not gonna move on the fake box the charging cable actually
moves them around so that's another thing that you should look out for also look at the boxes if
the box doesn't look perfect like as you're seeing for the fake one in this some particular recording
well you're probably looking at some fake ones so the box on the original one looks perfect
in every single way next we are looking at the charging cases and even though when you first
glance at this they do look pretty much identical they even sound the same when you close them
so they sound the same but you're gonna have to pay attention to small details for example
for these particular fake ones the text on the back of the case here is actually spelt
wrong so you're gonna have to pay attention to small details now this may not happen for all the
fake ones actually i haven't seen any fake ones that had um a bad spelling on the case for quite
some time but these ones do have that text on the back spelled wrong so you have to pay attention
to small details like that but other than that the cases do look um pretty similar on these two
when you open the charging cases at the top here you're also gonna be able to see the serial number
for the airpods and in this case the serial number on this charging case actually matches
the serial number on the box that's how it should be now if you do take out the airpods the airpods
should have different serial numbers than the charging case and the box now with these fake
ones and really most fake ones that i've seen we have the exact same serial number on each airpod
and on the charging case and on the box but with the original ones that serial number is only the
same on the charging case the box and each airpod has a different serial number so look
out for that also once you have dispaired them to your smartphone so to your iphone if you open the
settings app there and you go to about you're also going to be able to see the serial number
in there and in most situations the serial number that's going to show up on your iphone doesn't
actually match the serial number that we get on on the case here so something to look out for with
the original ones the serial number that you're gonna be able to see on your iphone is the same
serial number that you're gonna be able to find on the charging case and on the box and lastly if
you take a really close look at the actual airpods you have to have really good eyesight to actually
see that you're gonna notice that the fake ones don't actually have all the microphones that we
have on the original ones so even though they do look similar if you look close enough at those
black mesh materials that we have at the top there on the side you're going to notice that many of
those are actually just pieces of black plastic on the fake ones what on the original ones we
actually have holes um there so you have to pay a lot of attention at small details i'm gonna
say also when you first open this app and pair them to your iphone you're gonna get a different
message from the fake ones when compared to the message that you get from the original ones so if
you first see that message when you first open the case when you first take it out of the box you're
very likely looking at the fake ones so keep that in mind now once connected to your iphone
you can't really tell the difference they do work the same they have the same sensors so every time
you take one out of them your ear the music will stop you can access siri from them and so on
so once connected there isn't that big of a difference and even the sound quality from
these fake ones is getting pretty close to the sound quality that we get from the original one
so these ones are better than the last fakes that i've tried but you should always try to
get the original ones because you're going to get better warranty better quality and so much more
all right guys hopefully this video was useful hopefully i gave you enough tips so you don't
end up buying the fake ones believing that you're buying the real ones if you did like the video
don't forget to press that like button and i'll see you guys in the next one thanks for watching