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Don't buy cheap crap off ebay or amazon and plug into your laptop if you care about it. It was always so for chargers, now it's cables as well. (I once bought
by xorcist 11y ago
Don't buy cheap crap off ebay or amazon and plug into your laptop if you care about it. It was always so for chargers, now it's cables as well.
(I once bought a noname car charger, "it's for 12V so how bad can it be?". Turns out "very" is the answer as that phone never took charge again.)
- nommm-nommm 11y agoDon't buy cables or chargers off Amazon or eBay at all, regardless of price. Unless they are shipped and sold by Amazon - not a third party seller. There is more fakes on those two sites than the real deal.
- kbart 11y agoI always warn the ones I care about the same thing. The worst thing about fake/cheap electronics is not that they don't simply work, but that they might work 99 times out of 100, but the 100th time burn your house down due to failed/non existent surge protection or whatnot. It's easy and cheap to convert AC/DC to nominal rates, but protection from burning down is the hard and expensive part.
- bradley_long 11y agoI bought some from Taobao. Luckily, my devices are still okay.