Thread 106410623

Everything is already from China, but here we discuss the cheap chink shit you see on various sites.
1st rule of /csg/: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Useful links
>TWS IEM reviews: www.scarbir.com/
>Guide: csg-guide.neocities.org/
>Wiki: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Chink_Shit_General

>What headphones/earbuds should I buy?
>>>/g/iemg
>I want a cheap smartphone what should I buy?
>>>/g/spg/
>I want to buy some sort of emulation device
>>>/vr/hhg/

>News
>>106389081 - Anon deviates from the sacred pinecil advice
>>106387789 - Anon gets a figurine of a anime girl (male)
>>106392497 - Anon buys a lot of stuff for his girlfriend (or himself?)
>>106392766 - A bunch of anons suggest cart filler items for when you're close to free shipping
>>106399580 - Anon has a compact UBS-C flash drive, presumably it works
>>106400505 - Keyboard case review
>>106405848 - Sir? Another figurine review has hit the thread.
>>106409821 - Anon likes his barefoot shoes
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>>106410623 (OP)
>News (cont)
A bunch of anons post their orders:
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Do not use the words in picrel in your OP or it gets autosaged, too much spice gets you clapped by the mods it seems.

>>106410641
damn so I'm never gonna convince my dad uh?

>>106410697
The best you can do, realistically, is offer it once. Then if they don't engage with it, disengage and move on. You can offer again next time. Other than that lead by example, once they realize you own something cool and you say it's from aliexpress, they'll come around eventually.
But some people are brainbroken that china=low quality, and you can't fix those people. For those people you have to let it go.

Anyone using Philips OneBlade razors? It's the only one that werks without raping my neck skin compared to traditional electric razors, but having to change its blades every so often is quite costly. How are the chink copies of those blades? Or are they exactly the same sold here coming from the same factory?

>>106410821
find a website that posts deals, I use pepper myself
set up a deal alert on there, the genuine article go on sale often where I live at least

So i ordered something from banggood a week or so ago and i noticed that they do fake shipping shit. On their website you can look on the order and see shipping updates but if you then try to use that shipping number on any 3rd party tracking site it will show up as if they only registered the parcel but never sent it.
>flight has taken off
>in transit
etc. Yet there is no updates whatsoever across several different parcel tracker sites ive tested. Not a single update on my local official parcel site of where the package will arrive. Wtf is this bullshit?

Sellers are price dodging the 20% coupons.
For a second time I had an item carted just over $15. An hour or two later it went just below that.

>>106410417
don't look up clipped and clipless bike pedals.

>>106410591
literally take the exact same listing on two websites, and show the price difference.
Amazon and local stores are full of exactly the same things at X10 markup.

I fell for the scarbir shill and bought the soundpeats t3 pro and it sounds like sh*t
Never trusting this kite again

180 degree cable meme

180 degree cable meme (pronounced as mimi)

>>106411178
For what purpose.

>>106410821
>but having to change its blades every so often is quite costly.
I've used one of those blades for 2+ years. It worked just fine. Not sure why you feel the need to "replace them so often".
I've recently bought an 8-pack of replacements on a discount and now I'm good for many more years.

>>106411156
99.999% of reviewers are paid shills.
and no that one guy isn't the exception no matter how earnest he seems.
the implication receiving products means the well is poisoned.

>>106411156
he loved the space travels while i thought they were extremely average. i fell for the scarbir and /csg/ audio noob spitroast. i think i spent $18 on them and i still think they were $5-6 overpriced

>>106411203
so you can use your phone at your desk where you do your personal computing without the cable having to turn 90+90 degrees

are the chinks bullshitting me? 5 days to board a goddamn plane?
also if u guess what i ordered u win the internetz good sir!

>Still not shipped after 4 days
Just rip the goddamn bandaid off ffs, free me from the pain of this limbo.

>>106411436
>>106411882
Calm down schizos.

>>106411882
It unironically shipped within the 2 minutes since I posted kek.
Chang has read my pleas on /csg/ and decided to end my suffering.
The item I wanted the most to appear quickly didn't ship, but still I'm glad I don't miss out on the sale savings.

>>106411902
Chang blessed me: >>106411908
Posting on here really works.

And yet the parcel is only showing up as registered when i check tracking sites.

>>106411316
Dunno, works on my end.

>>106411922
They wait until the sale is over so orders can be consolidated. Right now the distribution centers are looking like those meme videos of packages flying everywhere.

>>106412009
>They wait until the sale is over so orders can be consolidated
That's the common approach and I'd understand that, but a single item for 2€ didn't ship while the rest did, so my guess is that during consolidation that item didn't make it in time and now the seller either has to pay the shipping fee or cancel.
Bit annoying because I kinda wanted that item before next week, but it is what it is.

>>106411156
>buying ungraphed audio devices
should have gotten something from qcy.

>>106411287
space travels graph great though.
their sound is the only thing going for them

>>106412117
>their sound is the only thing going for them
NTA, but for me it's also supreme fit into my ears and great case color -- that translucent orange is just too good. The case itself is pure shit.

>>106400505
>- Keyboard case review
Can I get a link for that?

>>106412654
https://www.oneplus.com/uk/product/oneplus-pad-smart-keyboard
Bought it for half that price, so I suggest waiting for a sale.

My laptop's charger is falling apart and I'm considering replacing it with this and getting a nice high power wall charger instead of the brick I have right now. Would you guys say it's safe to plug my laptop into this more 'niche' chink cable?

https://aliexpress.com/item/4000205872869.html

>>106411987
I use the same orange chink cables, I love them
I have night terrors and destroyed the connectors off them in my sleep so had to order more :((

>>106412995
All the actual power stuff happens inside the brick with USB-C PD, so from that perspective it's safe, the cable is just some wires and a PD trigger IC.

On the other hand, it claims to be 19V, which is not one of the standard voltages that the brick will support: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#USB_Power_Delivery

So in fact, you'll get 20V instead. Technically out of spec but it's so close I give it a 95% chance it'll be fine.

>>106411203
>anon orders cable
>WhAtS ThE uSe CaSe?

>>106413612
That was a genuine question, dummy. I have never seen anyone using 180 degrees cables.

>>106413908
I've seen them being used to hide cables but that's mostly for HDMI, but with USB-C being able to carry video maybe that's why this exists as well.

>>106413915
Yeah, I use an HDMI one (not a cable, but an adapter) myself, but that cable was bought for a phone, so I had questions.

>>106413971
I could see it being useful for one of those handhelds where the charging port is at the bottom and you wanna rest it somewhere too, now that I think of it.

>>106411007
well yeah they also moved a lot of stuff to postage price

>>106396624
TEACH US pls

>>106410821
I use the genuine version of these from Costco

I wouldn't buy knockoff blades but what I do need is a replacement comb for the #1 shave size. The tabs on my genuine one broke off and now they repeatedly fall off while I'm shaving as soon as I apply pressure on them. It's a nightmare

So, what did you buy on sale anon?

>>106413987
They're actually good for handhelds with the ports on the top as well so there's not a big cable sticking out of the top or having to bend awkwardly.

Can anyone recommend me a good chink IEM under 50? I'd ask in the IEM general but they seem to go
>lmao did you really buy this
so I thought this might be the better place to ask.

>>106414587
Too much.
>>106414933
/iemg/ is full of schizo faggots that do nothing but shit fling all day and do some faggy circlejerks.

I got the EPZ Q1 Pro's when I lucked out and /iemg/ was helpful for a second and I've been liking them.

What the fuck is this bullshit.

>>106414942
>I got the EPZ Q1 Pro'

>he fell for the resident epz shill

>>106414971
Yeah this is exactly why you don't have any friends.

>>106412995
Just get yourself a nice GaN charger.
Those USB C to DC adapters are rather simple they just have a 20v PD chip on them and if it fails at worst they just stop supplying power unlike with normal chink chargers where they can send 110v AC accidentally.
Or send 20v to the 0.8v data/charger ID pin and kill the superIO.

>>106413380
>it claims to be 19V
That's what the original Acer charger is so I guess they just put that on the page to make guys like me with no clue feel like they're buying the right thing. Thanks for the reply.

>>106415022
>nice GaN charger
Is any brand especially good?

>>106414587
some shit from temu, some from ali, overall I think I spent too much money and I'll have to catch myself consooming too much now that I've given myself permission to go for the chink apps

>>106412995
the only issue is if its too thin for the wattage and will heat up and potentially melt or catch on fire.
you can physically feel if it gets too hot anywhere. and I mean *too* hot.
things that get power through them heat up normally.

>>106415171
toocki is decent on the budget side
baseus and anker and ugreen on more pricey

>>106414933
Tanchjim Bunny or Zero Ultima (same thing, different shape). Cheap, comfy, sounds good.

>>106410443
What do you mean by undersized? Usually the ones like that are hard to actually get the batteries back out of. The bigger problem is usually that the plastic bends out at the contact points.

>>106415203
I daily "cooling gel" pads on my SHP9500's and don't really get it either, it just feels like thick foam and leather.
I bought a 100-pack of the melamine sponges for $1.99 when they were on choice a while ago, lol. They're nice for throwaways when washing heavily soiled dishes