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- bought a laptop from S*****G - the flagship: bricked after 2 months (got it repaired on warranty after 6 weeks, all data lost)

- bought state of the art solar panels + D**e electronic transformer: all transformers of this kind lost operating licence in Germany due to internal missing parts (ordering new parts.....)

- bought parts for installing the solar panels: 2 parts were delivered unusable (replaced on warranty)

- bought 2 plug-in-measuring device for the panels from A*M - one is constantly losing connection to the router (can live with it - its just annoying)

- bought an E-Bike from C****Y - Battery smells like burnt electronics + unable to track rides, reason unclear (4 weeks of chatting with support - open end) .

all those products were not from Alibaba (for a reason) not from the *low shelf* but none of them worked like You would expect or advertising promised. All of the companies I bought from were *trusted shops* or ISO, TÜV or UL certified.

so what is going on here?

is it that the producers do not feel responsable for the quality of the stuff they sell? or am I just the unlucky guy the 1 of 10.000.000?

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Condition: Wear and Tear

Years Owned: 13 years

Usage: Daily

Stress points: Slow decrease over time due to lack of maintenance for their app, mods, and community. As with other BuyForLife companies, they went downhill after optimizing everything for profit ahead of their IPO.

Positive Remarks: The longevity was quite impressive compared to similar products.

Would you buy it again? Yes

I bought this Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro phone off ebay. A majority of chargers/cables in house have intermittent connection issues with this phone, causing battery to be drained in the morning. I inspected the USB-C charging port, the design is very peculiar. The photo was taken from an old hard-working LG V20. It clearly can be seen in the photo that the tongue of the charging port is sticking out of the metal sleeve by 1~2mm. I have never seen such USB-C port design on other devices. Everyone else has the tongue sits flush with the metal protection sleeve. It makes you wonder why Samsung took the trouble to design such a non-standard USB-C port? Without the metal sleeve protection on the tongue, the plug of the cable could put a lot of stress on the tip of the tongue, making it wear out much faster or even risking breaking the tongue.

USB-C Tongue Sticking out of Metal Sleeve with Poor Connection

Condition: Inconvenienced

Years Owned: 1 years

Usage: Daily

Stress points: Buds occasionally power on in the case and discharge, so when you go to use them, they will not power on. Sometimes also takes two or more attempts to get each bud to actually charge when placed in the case.

Positive Remarks: Excellent sound quality, EQ controls, and noise cancelling or ambient mode. Decent battery life when actually charged.

Price Paid: $172 Cost per Month: $14.33

Would you buy it again? No

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Condition: Broken

Years Owned: 12 years

Usage: Weekly

Stress points: Unit displaying error light code which can be caused either by failed heating element or failed control board, pumps where also starting to get noisy towards the end of its life

Positive Remarks: Ran fine for best part of 12 years so can't really complain about it eventually failing

Price Paid: $260 Cost per Month: $1.81

Would you buy it again? Yes

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