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In response of the think logically, let's look at this way, who benefits the most from this case? (assuming both accusations are true)

1) J's selling shitty/second product on their official distributor to sell (story from AJ)
or
2) AJ selling fake products as the real deal (Story from J's)

In case 1, J's benefit is limited. Their products already have huge markups. Making a 1K exhaust that actually cost them 200 to build vs. 100 to build, the gain is 100 bucks extra or a bit over 12% more profit at a cost of J's reputation (maybe worth a few million or at least a few hundred of G?)

Case 2, looking at AJ, their benefit could be huge. I'm not familiar with the retail markup that J's give to their disty, but let's assume J's give them 20% markup, making that 1K exhaust pipe 1200 MSRP. If AJ finds a foreign factory to produce the very same product (let's say they actually found a way to make a 1:1 reproduction) and cost is the same to J's at 200 and sell the product at 1200 MSRP, this represents a 500% increase in profit at a cost of their reputation (maybe a few hundred G at most?)

IMHO, AJ has a much higher motivation than J's. Thus, I'd side with J's on this one.