Ever have terminated speaker wires crossed/mislabeled from manufacturer?

Hi All,

So I recently came across a very weird scenario. One that I have never encountered before. I just put together a second, smaller HT system (5 channels). So I bought 5 XLR and 3 speaker cables all from SKW on Amazon. I got their high end cables. I have a few of the power cables on my subs and their stuff looks/feels/performs quite well. So I decided to go all in on speaker cables and IC's. I ran my Audyssey room correction through my Marantz AV8802A (purchased used on Ebay-very clean unit). But for some reason it kept saying my left front speaker had wires out of phase and had the red X showing on the speaker. I double checked and had red/red, black/black. So ran it again and same same. So I changed the speaker end (bananas all around) and put the black to red, vice versa. Ran calibration and no error...and as these cables are already terminated there's no way to determine for sure if indeed they put the wrong color on the wrong wire...

I have never ever even thought or considered that the Manufacturer could get this wrong, but I guess like everything else, mistakes can be made. But it really threw me for a loop and let's just say I will no longer buy SKW. Once that trust is broken, it's gone😯. I have started the return on Amazon and am sending the speaker cables back. I already ordered up the Blue Jeans Ten White Speaker Cable which even though terminated allows you to see the red and black wires so you know...

Very very disappointed in SKW, because I really liked their cables. They even provide screw on bananas and spades with all of their cables...

Anyone ever have this happen?