what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video i'm going to show
you how to spot the fake apple airpods 2. these are also the ones that support wireless charging
so you can find the original apple airpods 2 for about 200. were the fake ones you
can find for between 25 to 70 dollars depending on where you buy them of course
and what happens a lot of people buy the fake ones and then they resell the fake ones as the
original ones and you definitely don't want to spend like 150 to two hundred dollars on
a pair of um apple airpods and then find out that you actually have the fake ones
and you can find a lot of fake ones um on ebay on the facebook marketplace craigslist and so on
so hopefully in today's video i'm gonna show you enough information so you can easily spot the fake
ones so you don't buy the fake ones believing that you're actually buying the original ones
all right so both boxes come wrapped in plastic and just by looking at the boxes you're not
gonna be able to spot any differences because the boxes do look fairly similar
now if you take a closer look at that plastic wrap you're going to notice that the fake ones
don't have that plastic wrap done too neatly if you know what i mean so the plastic wrap is a
bit bubbly doesn't look that great if you look at the box from the original ones you're going
to notice that that plastic wrap is almost perfect so that would be the first thing that you should
look out for for that plastic wrap on the box so the original ones is gonna have a much nicer
plastic wrap without any creases or anything like that so aside from that plastic wrap the boxes do
look pretty similar so it's gonna be tough to tell them which ones are the fake ones and which ones
are the original ones just by looking at the boxes now you could also look at the stickers
at the bottom here but once again you're not going to be able to tell which ones are the
fake ones and which ones are the original ones because the stickers here are actually
different depending where you actually buy these from so every country will have a different um
sticker now i did see this comment uh under one of my old videos where people ask why can't you just
check the serial number on the fake ones well you can check the serial number on apple's website but
whenever you're checking the serial number that will actually show up as a real product
because the serial number is probably copied from some other original apple airpods so just
by looking at the boxes you're not gonna be able to tell the first thing you're gonna find inside
the box is the user manual and if you look at the user manual from the original apple airpods
2 you're going to see that the printing quality is much better so that could be one thing to look for
now if you turn around that little cardboard pouch where you found the user manual you're
also going to notice that on the fake ones it says 2016 where on the original ones it says 2019
so that could be another thing that you should look for underneath the user manual you're gonna
find the charging case um in the fake box and the original box and if you take a closer look at that
charging case you're gonna notice that it is wrapped in plastic on the fake and the original
ones but only the original ones have a little pull out tap so that's definitely something that you
should look out for now if you remove the charging case and that little plastic underneath them
you're gonna find the cable and if you look at the cable on the fake ones first of all the cable
is loose and the box does look pretty cheap so this is something that you should look for so
just remove that little plastic and see how the cable looks on the original ones it does look much
nicer next we are looking at the charging cases and yes once again the charging cases do look very
similar if you look at the bottom they are the same if you look on the back they're the same we
have the exact same text but there is one thing that you should look for so what you see that
little led on the original case that's actually looking black and there is no hole in there that's
actually filled up with plastic on the fake ones the little hole for the led is not actually filled
up with plastic so that's an actual hole in the case so on the original ones it almost looks black
where on the fake ones it looks kind of whitish and there is a hole so that's definitely something
that you should look for opening the charging case you're gonna notice that both the fake and the
original ones have the serial number at the top there and even though the font is a bit different
it's gonna be hard to tell which ones are the fake ones and which ones are the original ones just by
looking at that um serial number and the font the next thing you should look for is the little hinge
so the little hinge on the fake ones does seem a bit different than the hinge on the original ones
it's not that big of a difference button maybe look how both look and maybe you can
tell if you're looking at the fake ones or the original ones just by looking at that
aside from that the charging cases do look very similar next we're moving to the airpods
themselves and luckily here you can see a bunch of very small differences so the first thing
i want you to look for is the serial number so on the fake ones we don't actually have the serial
number written on the airpods on the original ones you do get the serial number written on
the airpods so there is some text on the fake ones but definitely not a serial number the next thing
i want you to look at is the actual ear tip so the part that goes in your ear if you look on the
original ones you can definitely see two holes in there on the fake ones it doesn't look like
you're having two holes so that little mesh that covers that doesn't allow you to see the two holes
so though on the original ones you can definitely see two holes well not so much on the fake ones on
the back of the airpods you can also notice that the little hole it's higher on the original um
airpods than on the fake ones so that's another thing that you should look for and lastly at the
bottom once again the original ones do look a bit different than the fake ones and even that chroma
circle is shinier on the original ones than it is on the fake ones so a bunch of things that you
can notice on the airpods themselves functionality wise once again they are pretty similar but there
are some small differences that you can definitely notice so when you first pair these to your um
smartphone to your iphone the text that shows up is a bit different so on the fake one it says uh
not your um apple airpods so definitely look out for that once connected to your phone they do kind
of perform the same so even uh they even have that little sensor that will stop the music every time
you take one of them out of your ears and that works the same on both you can access siri on
both and so on so not that much of a difference for functionality now sound sound wise yes the
original ones do sound a bit better they get a bit louder and they have more bass but i have
to say that even the fake ones don't sound too bad and you're not going to be able to tell just
by listening to these ones you do need both of them so you can tell that you're looking at the
fake ones and the original ones so sound quality you're not gonna be able to tell just by listening
to these ones so hopefully hopefully by now you do have enough information so you don't end up buying
the fake ones believing that you're buying the original ones if you do have any questions about
the fake ones feel free to leave a comment down below and i'll try to answer any comments that you
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