Geek / Wish shopping app

[Tippon]

Has anyone used the Geek / Wish shopping app? I’ve heard a few mixed reviews, but mostly good, so I gave it a try earlier. I bought a few throwaway things as a tester, but they had 64GB USB drives for £2 + delivery, and a 2TB USB drive for £11 + delivery.

I know that they’re almost certainly fake, but the combination of good reviews and the app’s money back guarantee, along with my stupidness / curiosity meant that I gave them a shot. It’ll be interesting to see if they turn up, and what they actually are.

[The Duke]

Wish is good for Tate, smaller inexpensive things, you’d like but don’t need today. Escially given it takes about 6 weeks delivery.

I’ve bought some metal drill bits,countereints,clamps etc, and many kids crap like huge bags of loom babds and squshums. All come as advertised ,give or take, but I wouldn’t spend and real money and never if in a rush. It’s more of a browse and grab things you’d like rather than want. especially given they under cut everywhere . You just need to wait.

Oh having 3 girls in the house, I hair bands by the sack full and hair brushes by the score from wish9. I’m sure my 9 year old is knocking them out in school yard!

Never heard of geek. But for electronic parts Ali Express is my go to place. It’s about on par with Amazon for prices and probably 3 days behind,but being bigger than Amazon, and based in China has all the random electronie lectronis one could desire. As well as the usual Amazon afair.

But again I wouldn’t spend big money, outside of Amazon. Given how easy their returns are.

[Bob Williams]

I just bought a battery for my original Wileyfox Swift as mine is on its way out and the new W(T)F company has kept no legacy parts. I asked Ali Baba if the wife’s original Spark could be supplied: they said no battery stock available. Sent my £4:28, parcel came to USA from China, then to me. Inside were TWO batteries, including SWMBO’s Spark. Both genuine, correct electronics, both marked Wileyfox. Both work fine. A note inside said the Spark battery was “a goodwill gesture.” I will not be leery of Ali Baba again.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Tippon]

Geek is just the electronics department of Wish.

I normally wouldn’t go near it, but I was ill while I was away on Saturday, so had money left over that I wasn’t expecting. I rarely get time to myself, so anything I save for those times is essentially written off. I paid through Paypal too, so I should be covered if it goes wrong.

Has Ali Baba / Ali Express been around for a while? I vaguely remember hearing about it 15 – 20 years ago from a friend from Hong Kong, but I might be getting memories confused with each other and thinking of another shop.

[The Duke]

Ali express is the consumer front of alibaba, which is more wholesale. It’s the biggest online shop there is.

I think ali express is about 5 years old, alibaba is old.

 

I did see on geek earlier arduino unos of a fiver. Clones of course. Not bought one for ages, but I think the last clone I got was a tenner of eBay.

[Tippon]

The 2TB flash drive has arrived. I’ve tried two burn in programs to test the drive, but one did next to nothing, and the other crashed. I’m copying a load of music and videos onto the drive instead, but it’s sloooooow!

 

[Tippon]

Surprise surprise, it got 5% through copying and failed. The device malfunctioned and is not recognised by Windows. I’m going to try it on the laptop just to rule out a brand new and really coincidental problem with my computer 😉

Let’s see how good their returns policy really is…

[PlaneMan]

It’s probably a reject from the factory, bought for a couple of pennies and flogged on as good hoping most people won’t bother with claiming a refund.

[The Duke]

I’d never of bought memory of any kind from wish, or anywjere that isn’t my memory or Amazon direct.

[wasbit]

I have a 1TB USB thumb drive that was bought for me as a present. About £11 from Wish 2 years ago.

I managed to assemble about 500GB of files & IIRC they took a couple of days to write to the drive @ about 6.5mb/s.

Someone told me how to make dummy files but they still write at the speed of normal files & I had to give up at about 800GB because of time restraints.

It’s still in use, but not for anything important.

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Rig 2: Asus ROG G20CB (rebuilt wreck)
Rig 3: HP Elitebook 8440P

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[wasbit]

Test – bad sectors/fake size

ChipGenius (Russian site) – http://www.usbdev.ru/files/chipgenius/
FakeFlashTest – https://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/-fake-usb-flash-memory-drives
H2testw (Harald Bogenholz) – http://www.heise.de/software/download/h2testw/50539
– Site is in German but H2testw has English option & is no-install.
Solway’s SD Card Tester (+ speed) – http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/#solsdcardtester
USB Flash Drive Tester – http://www.vconsole.com/download

Further to my previous post, I’m running my 1TB USB thumb drive through H2testw, a portable (no install) non destructive tester
– https://www.heise.de/download/product/h2testw-50539

Windows shows it as,
Capacity :917GB
Used Space :229GB
Free Space :688GB

It’s quoting ‘Only 708861 of 939999 MB tested’.
Start test :Sun 14.15
Reports test will take over 34 hours
Speed :5.65 mb/s
End write : 01.22h Tues
Verify @ 611kb/sec
States media is likely to be defective & verification will take 329 hours.?

 

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wasbit

Rig 1: Optiplex 3050 SFF
Rig 2: Asus ROG G20CB (rebuilt wreck)
Rig 3: HP Elitebook 8440P

Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[Tippon]

Thanks Wasbit 🙂

I’ve had the refund from Wish. I used their contact form to message them a few days ago, and explained that it was a fake drive. The next day (10th) I had an email back saying a refund could take a few days, with no dispute at all. That email was sent on the 10th at 04:23. I had an email from Paypal on the 10th at 04:25 saying that the refund had been processed.

The seller was a scammer, but Wish / Geek were great. No quibbles, and an immediate refund without needing to send the fake drive back. I’ve got another few weeks before the rest of the order is due to arrive (I knew it would be slow when I ordered), but I’m much more confident now.

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