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I bought an Orange PI PC a few weeks back. It died after two days and the sellers are being extremely difficult at giving me a refund. I advise against buying f
by nazgul17 10y ago
I bought an Orange PI PC a few weeks back. It died after two days and the sellers are being extremely difficult at giving me a refund. I advise against buying from them.
- toomanybeersies 10y agoThat is the game you play when you buy from China.
- joshmn 10y agoI disagree. That's the game you play "buy cheap from China." Spend a bit more (say, $30) and the quality will greatly surpass expectations.
- elcct 10y agoI bought 50 of them and found only one that was faulty. Didn't bother asking for refund as the whole process probably could cost more than the product itself.
- wyldfire 10y agoDid you resell them or do a cool project? I love seeing writeups of folks who make arrays of inexpensive ARM boards.
- hlfshell 10y agoThen I would recommend hackster.io - they have a section for just Raspberry Pi projects. I'm going to be posting my own soon using the new Pi Zero w/ camera connector - made my own text message powered camera doorbell.
- elcct 10y agoI resold some and kept about 10 of them. Waiting for mainline kernel to be finally working to have some fun setting up Kubernetes cluster. I also created Cassandra cluster just to see if that could be possible. It worked, but performance was terrible.
- trizic 10y agoGenerally they know of this and will refund you or send you another replacement without you shipping back anything.
- bentpins 10y agoSellers on aliexpress are more cooperative if you open a dispute rather than just messaging them, because it carries a consequence if mediation doesn't go in their favor. You can open disputes for a while (two weeks ish?) after confirming now too