"Shipping label created - USPS awaiting item"

eBay is a great source for Chinezium bootleg crap now and they don't seem to care.
From electric razors to batteries all bootleg crap.

You can tell by the way they speck there not American LOL Wonder how much longer it will bee before we have our onw Lithium plant and producing cheaper batteries ??? https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/us-news/19-million-on-lithium-deposits-found-in-american-southeast-usgs/

It gets deeper. I checked their feedback.

Mostly positive but this guy after posting a complaint and a picture still gave them positive feedback.



SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM This battery is missing half of its cells. Looks like these people removed them and then put it back together, slapped some no-name-b4and stickers on the sides to make it appear to be sealed, and then turned around and sold it as if it were a 4 amp hour better when in fact it's got the same cell count inside as my 2 amp hour batteries. After 7 days I will change the positive marking to a negative marking. As this was not accidental. This is a purposely defective product.

Product standards in the us are very low to non existent. It's this way intentionally to keep people spending debt(money).

Hey Bob, they still qualify for a positive feedback, with such an intuitive solution as selling a half-scope crap at full price???

Welcome to the club, gents, I, living in Hungary, used to be  exposed to similar low-cost, tragic-quality  Eastern European and Russian crap before the Iron Curtain went down 34 years ago, and now encounter this garbage whenever and whatever I buy from  China, too, thanks to globalization of business...the last thing I would say is worth spending in China for is canned peach preserve and tops, fake NIKE T-shirts, but anything more sophisticated than that, especially if relying on electrical cabling or moving components,  should better be bought from somewhere else, if you want somewhat higher quality, even from such romantic source countries like Burkina Faso, Chad, Tonga, or  you name it, but NO China crap, please.....and believe me I am still PC, having worked for decades with manufacturers of power equipment located in China, so I have hands-on experience with that crap made there.

Here is my poor quality LM7805 integrated circuit...
My Citabria, the result of the manufacturer's lack of quality control.
I am grateful that I have not put the model airplane in anyone's head.

Summary of key forum member quotes:

crankbndr wrote:eBay is a great source for Chinezium bootleg crap now and they don't seem to care. From electric razors to batteries all bootleg crap.

rsv1cox wrote:SCAM This battery is missing half of its cells. Looks like these people removed them and then put it back together, slapped some no-name-b4and stickers on the sides to make it appear to be sealed, and then turned around and sold it as if it were a 4 amp hour better when in fact it's got the same cell count inside as my 2 amp hour batteries.

gkamysz wrote:Product standards in the us are very low to non existent. It's this way intentionally to keep people spending debt(money).

balogh wrote:Welcome to the club, gents, I, living in Hungary, used to be  exposed to similar low-cost, tragic-quality  Eastern European and Russian crap before the Iron Curtain went down 34 years ago, and now encounter this garbage whenever and whatever I buy from  China, too, thanks to globalization of business...

MauricioB wrote:Here is my poor quality LM7805 integrated circuit... My Citabria, the result of the manufacturer's lack of quality control. I am grateful that I have not put the model airplane in[to] anyone's head.

¡Bienvenida a Chino! Welcome to the new world!

I have found that to buy quality items on the 'Bay requires due diligence, because similarly, I have felt scammed in a few of my purchases. One is musical instruments. For a time I was teaching ukulele and assisting another with guitar lessons at the Salvation Army. I bought inexpensive ukuleles and guitars as donations for the music program.

Don't buy at lowest cost unless you know the seller is reputable. $44 guitars were poorly finished, they hadn't even sanded the wood cut-outs for the string tensioners. $17 ukuleles had varnish runs. Will they work for children instruction? Yes, but certainly not confidence builders.

China does produce quality items, but it depends on the factory it came from. In 2011 I bought a "Venus" brand soprano saxophone from a vendor in California I found to be reputable, Musical Wheel for $219. It plays as well as brand name intermediate saxophones selling for around $1000, I still use it 13 years later. I refrain from buying cheap saxes under other labels, because it could be a waste of money.

Reason why I went "Venus" is out of the other labels from China, this particular one had good ratings on forums then. I also have a "Venus" tenor sax I bought from M.W. in 2014 for around $400, it too is a quality item.

I have taken a stab at buying inexpensive items from China on the 'Bay, but I am extremely careful to check feedback as tip-offs to rip-offs. I haven't had problems with inexpensive model airplane wheels. But I got ripped off on servos. Inferior electronics, as Maricio points out, these would not return properly to center after releasing the stick. These I buy from reputable sellers.

Sellers like M.W., Hobby King, (Musician Friends and Sweetwater for musical instruments) prescreen what they sell, so chances of receiving a defective item are less likely. So paying a touch more versus the "Wild West" of Auctions is worth it.

However I have noticed one thing that concerns me in particular about the 'Bay. Recently, they now require me to have on file a credit card before I can even buy anything from them. I have been a member of them since the 1990's.I dumped PP, when they came up with a several thousand US dollar fine for so-called harmful speech. (Shades of Soviet Stalinist RU.) They reportedly retracted that shortly after negative lashback from the press. However, similar to the Mulvaney photo op on cans of Bud Lite, I no longer use them for purchases.

Such fines should be a function of government law inforcement and the courts system, not some petty banking vendor. (I noticed that Craigslist did a similar fine clause when I placed an ad with them several years ago, as such, they have steered me away from them.)

I'm about to dump the 'Bay as to them, there is no longer such a thing as the reputation of the buyer that counts. I have little tolerance for their more recent pettiness, and besides, their seller fees are ridiculously higher than other sites (actually a tax to buyers). Hence this is why I am now looking into other seller sites for purchases.

Note, this change of my heart started in 2015 with a purchase of a case for a soprano sax by a 'Bay vendor in New Jersey. I gave her neutral feedback, because her case did not fit my soprano sax. She wrote me a peeved message to retract it. I didn't. The 'Bay gave her a "get out of jail free" card and deleted my comment without even contacting me.

Thus, although I have close to 1,000 purchases from them over the years, the honeymoon is over and divorce soon.

Lowes price for the same battery at $49. This one is $17.08 shipped. Think I will swallow my pride and wait.

That's what causes me to stay with this purchase.........until I get it. If it's junk, lesson learned. But that is a significant price difference for the same item.

My perception of Chinese made goods has recently changed for the better with my purchases of Chinese made mini chainsaws. High quality, but with an archillies heel, the brushes that are prone to breaking. But I have to admit, I do not treat them gently. They do make some wonderful HO guage model locomotives, but they make some junk there too.