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> If you want anything that actually works and is reliable, you pretty much cannot buy it on Amazon, you need to buy it directly from the company that makes it
by jasonlotito 6y ago
> If you want anything that actually works and is reliable, you pretty much cannot buy it on Amazon, you need to buy it directly from the company that makes it.
I remember several years ago purchasing the $70 digital adapter from Apple. It's the one with 3 ports and merges into one. I forget which version it was.
It was horrible. The HDMI port wouldn't work.
I had purchased two. They were absolute trash. That's $140.
I replaced them with two Amazon versions for half the cost. They worked.
It was only after I purchased that I noticed that the reviews on Apple's own website showed it rated under 2-stars, with lots of angry reviews from people having the same exact problem.
I will say Belkin's USB-C dock works amazingly well. I love it.
- dewey 6y ago> I replaced them with two Amazon versions for half the cost. They worked. The point is that you don't know what you get on Amazon these days. It could be that you get a working version and I get a counterfeit version even though we both buy the same article on Amazon as they are just all in the same storage box.
- hinkley 6y agoAnker generally keeps their old products around, but they don’t sell their gen 1 thunderbolt 3 dongle anymore. Too many problems. I had two of them (they sent me a second because I was having problems). If you plugged the dongle into the wall but not a laptop, it would send the wrong voltage to the USB ports. I mostly keep it around to flash SD cards.
- sbierwagen 6y agoGP: "Buying stuff from Amazon is like rolling dice. If you get a 1, you lose." P: "I rolled a 6, and it worked fine for me. I don't know why everyone else is having problems."
- jasonlotito 6y agoExcept the part about how buying the dongle from Apple was anything other than a 6, and you lose.