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Being like eBay is why it's full of chaff. There's a lot of really bad hardware on Aliexpress. You either take a gamble on something and hope it's good, or try
by Aurornis 8mo ago
Being like eBay is why it's full of chaff. There's a lot of really bad hardware on Aliexpress.
You either take a gamble on something and hope it's good, or try to buy the same thing that someone else bought and reviewed.
- timschmidt 8mo agoI always figured that was the trade-off for paying 1/3 the price. Having to buy 3x as many to find a good one. :P
- dessimus 8mo ago"Another Slot A motherboard :(, maybe the 4th one I buy from AliExpress will finally be that X870 motherboard I want!"
- timschmidt 8mo agoI've never received something other than what I've ordered. At worst the documentation is scant or missing entirely. Specifically with respect to motherboards, most of the aliexpress specials I've interacted with have had completely unlocked BIOSes. Which are easy to get yourself into trouble with, but kind of nice to have when you need them.
- kube-system 8mo agoI think most of them just don't customize their bios and use the default fully-wide-open implementations from the upstream bios vendor.
- killingtime74 8mo agoHave you heard of paying with PayPal/credit card?
- genewitch 8mo agowhile possibly too sneery for this site, paypal and a real credit card will have buyer protections. Debit cards, and basically anything else will not.