Hi Mark,
My experience with China isn't too bad, though i also had a few minor
disappointments. And Ali fixed the the disputes queit well, though you
have to deal with some robots, and translation stuff
I must add that EBAY had caused me much bigger headaches then Ali. And
in my case EBAY also protected the crooks.
Thing is this: for 20 Euro you can buy a pretty capable machine, and
this might render secondhand PC's out of the picture as this could
outperform more expensive secondhand hardware that consumes more cost
power in a year then what this little board costs. And this consumes
about 10 Watt.
I already took the gamble and ordered one, so i will report back what i
get and eventual headaches i discover .
In a way i'm also curious how Canonical approaches this development
I mean, DELL only offered the most expensive machines with Ubuntu, (last
time i looked) and only the main Flavour. I was shopping for a cheap
notebook... So DELL was a big waste of time. Even when i asked support
there was NO WAY they would sell me a cheap machine.
Then when i reluctantly asked how long it would ship to europe then they
told me that it was only available for the US market.
This is some time ago so maybe they changed their minds by now. For me
that completely put DELL on the bottom of my list, and i never went back
to even look what they offer these days.
Would be nice to know Canonical's thoughts on-cheap-as chips Chinese
goodies.
I expect a few bumps with this hardware, but maybe it will surprise me.
So if anyone has any experience with this please let me know,.
On 2016-12-01 00:40, Mark F wrote:
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:34 PM, <scrooya...@riseup.net> wrote:
And in China you can get a Brandnew quadcore (without an enclosure)
for
less then 20 Euro.
Three of the five times I bought something from AliExpress it was
falsely
advertised (didn't receive what was specified). Even worse, AliExpress
seems to condone/protect this. The dispute process is a joke, offering
10
cents on the dollar refund (or, pay the postage to return the item
which
you wouldn't have purchased if it had been accurately advertised). If
you
don't take the token apology, AliExpress resolves the dispute entirely
in
the seller's favor.
One of the most crooked places I've ever encountered. (Not all sellers
are.
But, a large percent are, and AliExpress seems to protect them.).
So.... what you see and what you receive may be two entirely different
things. I wouldn't get too excited until you (or someone you trust)
receives it.
Good luck. (Maybe my experience isn't representative. But, what I
encountered was *shameless* deceit.).
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