Truly original - in bulk.

If you write reviews about products for which there are half a dozen vendors, then you have to call a spade a spade. For not always is the same article. Sometimes the execution is different (new, used, in original packaging, without packaging [also called bulk - such as spare parts, bulk packaging, etc.] and in some cases it may be a copy of the latter would be in this case particularly brazen and. for me a clear reason for the return.
In my case, the cable comes from "Online queen" and was shipped via Amazon Prime. To all appearances, the cable is actually 100% original (see below *). The whole was in a multiply wound gray plastic bag on which a sticker with a bar code, the orig. Apple name and the Apple SKU "MA591G / A" was. The cable itself looked dirty at first glance, but it turned out just as dust / powder. The cable was wound a little sloppy, but handled the cable was tidy condition. It worked well from the start, both with original Apple dock, Apple power supply, external power supply, with iTunes on your iMac. So actually 5 star. A star I must deduct, not because the bulk packing in and of itself - under 10 EUR I do not expect anything else, but because the plastic packaging was so wrapped FEG that they could be only carefully open with the knife, incl. the fear to damage the cord.

* Original or not, that is the question: The plug agree with 100% with the current models of Apple agreement, the cable length is right and the cable carries the tiny print "Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China" - as in the cable that came with on my iPhone 4S. When material (this was with my cable during 4S identical) must know that Apple has often already changed the plastic strain for the cable (alone with each of my iPhone generations) - times stronger, harder times my current, was like the last also the firmer varieties - so that alone is not a bad sign.