Spigen's support has confirmed this "third-party seller" (Powerarc [amazon.com]) is one of Spigen's official seller accounts.
Re:[## 583226 ##] Is this an official Spigen authorized reseller?
Spigen Support Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 6:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Hi me,
Thank you for contacting Spigen!
PowerArc is one of our official sellers on Amazon.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us again.
Thank you for choosing Spigen.
Hope you have a wonderful day!
Best Regards,
Lauryn
Spigen Customer Support
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/conKz96.png [imgur.com]
Further, the official Spigen US page has also launched: Car Charger Arc.SA - Spigen.com Official Site – Spigen Inc [spigen.com]
Finally, the actual delivered product exactly matches Spigen's own barcodes:
Imgur: The magic of the Internet [imgur.com]
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I suggest caution approaching this post, as OP only appears to be presenting supporting information. What has been left out is this: visiting this 'subsidiary' website gives a security error, which is generally not a great sign. The Amazon seller account being used to sell this item is brand new, which also isn't a good sign. The reviews so far appear to be paid ones, which is a bad sign. Oddly, Spigen themselves do have an Amazon account that they use to sell their products, however they've not listed this product themselves.
For comparison sake, Spigen's other car charger that's sold on Amazon is also listed on Spigen's own website (not some subsidiary.) It is also sold directly by Spigen's own Amazon seller account. It has been listed on Amazon for a long time now, and it routinely has lightning sales. If this newer version is legitimate, I would expect the same behavior, meaning that this price is likely to be available many times in the future.
I would encourage others who prefer to be cautious with their expensive electronics to let others be early adopters, because this deal is filled with red flags. If it's real, you'll probably be able to access this price again in the future anyway.
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This model isn't yet featured on Spigen's US site [spigen.com], so perhaps this is a grey market item from their domestic market [spigen.co.kr]? Alternately, it could be counterfeit. I'm not willing to roll the dice with the devices I'd plug into this charger. I include the specs below with the note that only the 45W ports supports sufficiently high current draw to properly support Samsung's 25W or 45W Super Fast Charge modes. Otherwise it should be considered more impressive that in addition to PPS both ports also support voltage modes typical for laptops. Were Samsung putting out something like this for an even higher price (and they've come close [samsung.com]) i'd probably be in. For now I'm stuck waiting though this would otherwise check all the boxes for what I've been waiting for...
USB-C Port 1Total 45W Max (5V/3A, 9V/3A, 15V/3A, 20V/2.25A, 3.3-11.0V/4.05A, 3.3-16.0V/2.8A, 3.3-21.0V/2.1A)
USB-C Port 2Total 30W Max (5.0V/3.0A, 9.0V/3.0A, 15.0V/2.0A, 20.0V/1.5A, 3.3-5.9V/3.0A, 3.3-11.0V/2.25A)
Good luck!
Jon
EDIT: Found my answer. This is a third party seller, relatively new but with high ratings this year.
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For comparison sake, Spigen's other car charger that's sold on Amazon (found here: https://a.co/d/6pETl8X) is properly listed on Spigen's own website (not some subsidiary.) It is also sold directly by Spigen's own Amazon seller account. It has been listed on Amazon for a long time now, and it routinely has lightning sales. If this newer version is legitimate, I would expect the same behavior, meaning that this price is likely to be available many times in the future.
I would encourage others who prefer to be cautious with their expensive electronics to let others be early adopters, because this deal is filled with red flags. If it's real, you'll probably be able to access this price again in the future anyway.
For the record, I own the legit 65W version I linked above for a bit over a year, and I've been quite happy with it so far. It also is on sale right now. It doesn't have some of the newest charging features for the new Samsung phones so if you need that, I'd either wait to see if this one gets listed by Spigen's Amazon seller account, or maybe just find a different charger for the time being.
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1) Is this a legitimate Spigen product? That's a good question. It's sold by PowerArc, which appears to be a U.S. division of Spigen (which is a South Korean company). There is a ton of circumstantial evidence that this is true, but it's still strange because the product with these specs doesn't appear anyplace else except Amazon. If, in fact, this is an elaborate ruse by a counterfeiter to make you think it's Spigen, then wow -- they've gone to an awful lot of trouble, including establishing all kinds of social media accounts over several years using Spigen's U.S. headquarters address.
2) You are getting a security warning when you try to visit their website. This is a standard warning that appears when your browser visits a page that is not "secure" That is, the website's home page uses http: instead of https:. The message can be confusing because if you were just going to the website to read, it doesn't really matter. What it means is that if you fill out a form, or submit your credit card, that information is not encrypted.
But when you click the buy button on any of those pages, it just sends you to Amazon, so you're never submitting credit card information on their website.
They do have a form where you put in your email address to get on their mailing list, which is probably why the browser warning is popping up, so if you filled out that form, you have some slight risk of your email address being exposed. Yes they should be using HTTPS, but it's not a crime.
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This post makes me sound like a boomer, but trust me, I'm not, and I'm just a millennial trying to think more about this. I love fast charging, and sometimes it really is needed, but I often wonder if there's a way to toggle slower charging when our phones don't need it to preserve the battery of the phone better and in this case to prevent draining the heck out of your 12V car battery.
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