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$5 USD. What did you expect? Always surprises me when people pay essentially nothing for a product and then complain about quality.

ddtaylor 3mo ago
Would you say the same about a vendor selling rotten or spoiled food?
- lostlogin 3mo ago
  If it was 1/4 the normal price, I’d be suspicious.
bayindirh 3mo ago
Marketed as a USB 2.0 hub with a single USB 3.0 port? When I last looked, typing truth via keyboards were free and valuable at the same time.
- bigfishrunning 3mo ago
  Why type truth when you can have some LLM generate lies?
  - bayindirh 3mo ago
    To protect turtles?
- teiferer 3mo ago
  Of course it's wrong. But then again, what did you expect? A high quality super reliable full USB 3.0 speed 7 port hub? For $5? That shouldn't pass anybody's smell test. There is a cost to things, and if the price seems too low then your alarm bells need to go off. (I don't get why I'm downvoted. Maybe I should have been clearer the first time around.)
  - teo_zero 3mo ago
    > I don't get why I'm downvoted Because your comment was addressing the author instead of the article itself. Tell-tale words are "you" and "people". It would have been different if you said, for example, "I have developed a rule that if something is too cheap, it must be rubbish". See how this delivers your opinion without suggesting stupidity about the others who don't share it?
Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I mean yeah you get what you pay for. The main issue I think is false advertising; there's only so much you can do for foreign webshops, but if this were on e.g. Amazon, then Amazon should be pulled up on it (that is, huge fines so they don't do it again). EU is cracking down on foreign webshops at least, setting rules for advertising, increasing import taxes to avoid flooding the local market with many individual packages that circumvent spot checks for basic electronic safety and (EM) emissions (what the FCC looks out for as well), etc.
Gigachad 3mo ago
I would expect at any price point the seller should not be lying about the specs.
- bigfishrunning 3mo ago
  Well then AliExpress is not the storefront for you
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einsteinx2 3mo ago
Right? This is basically one small step away from stuff like “2TB usb stick for $20” scam listings on AliExpress. Of course it will be fake or crap. Cool tear down and write up though.
- ddtaylor 3mo ago
  I don't think any scamming should be normalized.

ddtaylor 3mo ago

Would you say the same about a vendor selling rotten or spoiled food?

lostlogin 3mo ago
If it was 1/4 the normal price, I’d be suspicious.

bayindirh 3mo ago

Marketed as a USB 2.0 hub with a single USB 3.0 port? When I last looked, typing truth via keyboards were free and valuable at the same time.

bigfishrunning 3mo ago
Why type truth when you can have some LLM generate lies?
- bayindirh 3mo ago
  To protect turtles?
teiferer 3mo ago
Of course it's wrong. But then again, what did you expect? A high quality super reliable full USB 3.0 speed 7 port hub? For $5? That shouldn't pass anybody's smell test. There is a cost to things, and if the price seems too low then your alarm bells need to go off. (I don't get why I'm downvoted. Maybe I should have been clearer the first time around.)
- teo_zero 3mo ago
  > I don't get why I'm downvoted Because your comment was addressing the author instead of the article itself. Tell-tale words are "you" and "people". It would have been different if you said, for example, "I have developed a rule that if something is too cheap, it must be rubbish". See how this delivers your opinion without suggesting stupidity about the others who don't share it?

Cthulhu_ 3mo ago

I mean yeah you get what you pay for. The main issue I think is false advertising; there's only so much you can do for foreign webshops, but if this were on e.g. Amazon, then Amazon should be pulled up on it (that is, huge fines so they don't do it again). EU is cracking down on foreign webshops at least, setting rules for advertising, increasing import taxes to avoid flooding the local market with many individual packages that circumvent spot checks for basic electronic safety and (EM) emissions (what the FCC looks out for as well), etc.

Gigachad 3mo ago

I would expect at any price point the seller should not be lying about the specs.

bigfishrunning 3mo ago
Well then AliExpress is not the storefront for you

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einsteinx2 3mo ago

Right? This is basically one small step away from stuff like “2TB usb stick for $20” scam listings on AliExpress. Of course it will be fake or crap. Cool tear down and write up though.

ddtaylor 3mo ago
I don't think any scamming should be normalized.