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Originally Posted by cdndave
livingenzyme
I appreciate your dedication to your chosen device.
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*Sigh*
You're misunderstanding me. Assume for a moment that the device I just bought is total crap. Ok? All I'm saying is buying directly from China is a very risky business. Every year, thousands of people are scammed into buying devices from China that only worked for a few days. I was one of these victims several times. The sellers sit in China. What are we going to do? The Chinese government certainly don't cooperate in issues of commercial dispute. So, the question remains. Once you've realized you've been scammed into spending hundreds of dollars on a piece of crap that only works for a few days, what are you going to do about it? What can you do about it? If the seller is some guy sitting in China, there is absolutely nothing
real you can do. The closest retribution you can impose on the seller is a bad review. And even then, they will pretend to be some law firm emailing you intimidating you into withdrawing your bad review with the threat of a lawsuit. A few years ago, it happened to me. I never budged and nothing came of it. But I kept my eyes open on that seller and I did notice a lot of bad reviews disappearing after a day or so. People were actually caving into their threats.
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Guys like you make the hobby more enjoyable in general. Availability at Kmart is great for folks living in the US, but for the rest of us, China tablets are the only option besides an genuine Apple iPad. I for one will probably buy a 2nd or 3rd gen ipad - once it matures and the bugs are ironed out. But until then for less than $200 I can have a device that does 95% of what I need for a fraction of the price.
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It's your money, so you can do what you want with it.
It just grinds me to death to see Chinese scammers keep getting away.
It's like those nigerian email scammers that keep getting away with scamming the weakest members of our society out of thousands and thousands of dollars every time. The nigerian government has thus far done absolutely nothing at all. There have been some people who have collected some damning evidence against individual scammers. They sent those evidence to both the US and nigerian authority. Nothing have ever became of them. Why? Because the nigerian government simply won't do anything.
We are seeing the same thing with some of the east asian countries. That dirtbag hacker from Vietnam is probably living comfortably right now after stealing millions from us after he paid off some corrupt vietnamese officials.
Anyway, take it for what it's worth. Your money, your risk.