[Citroënbender]

The left plug in my pictures is from 2018 (Jaycar), the other two were bought recently. As a high turnover item, I doubt the middle plug is six years old stock.

Having seen the relative effort made by Chinese companies to imitate diagnostic connectors, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have done similar here. And if they suck people like me in, with a unit price 30¢ lower than others perhaps more authentic, that’s still a huge margin compared to the un-marked connectors.