Just when you thought you shouldn't trust dodgy foreign ebayers

Jonny69

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I took a chance 12 months ago and bought a cheap clone laptop battery for £25 direct from a Hong Kong ebayer instead of paying £85 from an online laptop battery shop. Ironically the battery was identical to the one I was replacing from that shop which lasted quite some time, so I was dead chuffed.

Unfortunately it started to die at about 10 months old and I rooted through my old emails to find the seller. Several short vague emails later it was in the post back to Hong Kong but apart from the postage the buyer was happy to replace it. Today I'm happy to say the replacement arrived and it works perfectly.

So there are some good ones out there. Sometimes you get burned, sometimes you get lucky :)
 
Sinque said:
£25 for 10 months of efficiency seems good to me?
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Exactly. At that price I figured it didn't matter if it only lasted a year. I think the return postage was about £6.50 so I'd have still been quids in over the one from the shop.
 
Bought a few things from over there, happy with everything that's arrived. There was one occasion when something didn't show up and they were more than happy to refund me.
 
if it was a li-on battery theres good reason while people dont mind spending the extra knowing it was made properly and not some knock off that has the potential to explode in a napalm ball of fire.
 
arknor said:
if it was a li-on battery theres good reason while people dont mind spending the extra knowing it was made properly and not some knock off that has the potential to explode in a napalm ball of fire.
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They only explode if you discharge them too quickly :p
 
Yep, Bought several computer items from HK and they have all arrived and worked fine. The only real problem I've had with an item is some razor blades I ordered from Australia, they were fake, managed to get a full refund from the seller without returning them though.
 
RobH said:
Yep, Bought several computer items from HK and they have all arrived and worked fine. The only real problem I've had with an item is some razor blades I ordered from Australia, they were fake, managed to get a full refund from the seller without returning them though.
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How did you find out they were fake? Did it rip your face to pieces?
 
Daveyboy said:
How did you find out they were fake? Did it rip your face to pieces?
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Yep, about a million times worse than shaving with an old blade. I imagine shaving with a rusty knife would have felt better. I also found a website after that tells you how to identify them.
 
I'd be weary of laptop batteries at knock-down prices. It could be they've taken old dead batteries, opened them up and replaced the cells with new ones.

When it comes to Li-Ion batteries you want assurance they aren't going to blow-up and catch fire, like badly made ones before have.
 
i ended up biddin on ipod mp3 player which turned out to be fake instead of being like 2gb ect when you formatted it turned out to be 512mb so contacted the seller after i paid and asked for a refund, got it instantly then three weeks later i got two of these threw the post and emailed them and they never replied so emailed once a week for a month with no reply i still have them to this day, now seller is no longer registered.
 
Never had a problem with stuff from HK or China when I have bought them - infact when I bought 2 items off the bay, the one from China came quicker than the one from Manchester!!
 
I bought my 8800GT from a seller in Guangzhou, China, back when there was the shortage of 'em - everywhere had sold out and the pre-order lists were huge. It came within a few days of payment clearing.

Axle3d I think was the brand - it got a new cooler slapped on it and it's still working perfectly in my FS9 PC to this date.
 
My dad buys so much gubbins from HK just because no one makes what he wants in the UK. Reams and reams of old HDD cables and converters for his arcade machine he's been putting together forever!
 
Jonny69 said:
I took a chance 12 months ago and bought a cheap clone laptop battery for £25 direct from a Hong Kong ebayer instead of paying £85 from an online laptop battery shop. Ironically the battery was identical to the one I was replacing from that shop which lasted quite some time, so I was dead chuffed.

Unfortunately it started to die at about 10 months old and I rooted through my old emails to find the seller. Several short vague emails later it was in the post back to Hong Kong but apart from the postage the buyer was happy to replace it. Today I'm happy to say the replacement arrived and it works perfectly.

So there are some good ones out there. Sometimes you get burned, sometimes you get lucky :)
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Im doing exactly the same right now, although it has cost me £10 to send, better than having to buy a brand new one for £30-£40.
 
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