Chinese imports? what do u reckon

Blop · 07-28-2003, 04:14 AM

Heh up i found this on my search for screens in the UK, all the prices are in GBP and they seem quite cheap.

http://sales.mini-tech.com/

Skraggy_uk · 07-28-2003, 05:52 AM

For composites, the prices look pretty good. What the company is like delivering is a different matter of course.

woodpaneling · 07-30-2003, 04:18 AM

What do you mean by that? The reason I ask is I was thinking of ordering some stuff from a company in China. Am I most likely going to lose my money like that, or would it be safe? I know its kind of off topic, but Thanks for any help!

woodpaneling · 07-31-2003, 12:58 AM

What do you mean by that? The reason I ask is I was thinking of ordering some stuff from a company in China. Am I most likely going to lose my money like that, or would it be safe? I know its kind of off topic, but Thanks for any help!

Skraggy_uk · 07-31-2003, 03:23 AM

I mean, they are an unknown quantity. it isn't like going retail, oir buying from a big name known online retailer like Fry's, or a registereed Ebay shop trader, or the buys that advertise on here.

I've ordered parts direct from the manufactrurer from Korea before. I've been using the net, and shopping safely online for years now. It wasn't until I placed my order, and got a very vague email reciept including my card number that I realised that the shopping cart I used may not have actually been on a secure server. Also the details were Sketchy. I hate to think what it would have been like had it not actually been a large OEM manufacturer, who was branching in a small way into it's own branded retail brand.

It's a long way to ship from China. We don't know who they will ship with, wether the paranoid Chineses government border people will handle the package carefully, or destroy it making sure that state secrets aren't getting smuggled etc, or wether it is just a secure server money making scam. We just can't know.

Lets face it, in the UK or Europe, and in democratic eastern countries even, there is some protection aganst fraud, but how would that work when dealing with China, in the unlikely event of a dispute? To settle a legal arguement, would you have to go there, and stand in front of a chinese court, and deal in chinese? Or do they recognise any international laws that would help resolve it. Remember this is a country that won't let tourists wander round without an official "Guide" in a lot of places.

Skraggy_uk · 07-31-2003, 03:34 AM

BTW, this wasn't to be an anti-chinese/chinese people post, just a suggestion of some problems you might have dealing behind the Bamboo curtain, and could potentially happen in any country that doesn't have your native language as the first language, and is more likely anywhere that has an anti outsider paranoid national security system.