..........JOIN ME IN BANNING FASTTECH.....PLEASE, It's amazing that Joe even gives them any play with all the issues and junk they sell. BUY CHINESE BUT DO IT FROM AMERICAN SITES...LOL
Thanks, I'm so goddamn sick of buying shit directly from China on Amazon & Ebay without being able to know about it first, I definitely don't need or
want vape stuff that is potentially (more than potentially) dangerous, but most likely just crap, & from what I've experienced in the last couple years, it really comes down to quality control, which is an important step they don't give a crap about. At least when the manufacturers are from China, but the sellers/creators are located elsewhere, they hold the products to a higher standard & don't usually send out garbage to customers, mostly because they care about what their customers want & they care about their business doing well. When it comes direct, you are making a
huge gamble. You can forget about being able to "return" items to them usually, too, since shipping an item back to China usually costs anywhere from half of, to even more than the price of your original item, & a lot of the time, you don't get any refund even if you do that, you're just shit out of luck. I was really close to shopping at FastTech, because they carry some things I haven't seen elsewhere, but you just saved me the hassle.
I'm not trying to sound fucked up, but China is absolutely destroying the online marketplace. Between all the knockoffs for everything you can imagine, & the straight up junk they're peddling & the inability to have the information before your purchase, they've made my life a living hell. I'm disabled, I am forced to do literally
all my shopping online, & now I can't do that unless I go to an established site like K-mart or Target or something, & I don't know the names of all of the ones out there. They also love to scam people by gaming the system with fake reviews & using tactics from really stupid, obnoxious & evil "guides" that basically tell them how to get high rankings & dupe people into buying their crap, & use click-farms to boost their products, as well as use advertising with google & many other places. Unfortunately it's working a lot of the time, & most of us have no recourse. What can you expect from a country that has the majority of cyber criminals, & a country that oppresses & censors it's people so much?
Wish that these marketplaces would just stop allowing them to even sell anything if they're located there. Something along those lines.... I'm not usually ever for something like that, since it could potentially seem like discrimination, but if someone is from a high-risk location where the largest percentage of people there are scamming others & stuff, then there should at the very least be something in place to verify who they are & a way to obtain proof that they're legit, & if not, then sites need to just not allow it. Plenty of websites already do this for a multitude of other reasons that make even less sense, so I feel like it really wouldn't be too hard for them & it's completely justified anyway. If they don't start doing it soon, I am expecting to see a huge collapse of the e-commerce world eventually. I doubt anyone will want to keep shopping online much longer if it continues like this. Nobody likes being ripped off, scammed or tricked. All it takes is a little freaking quality control, man, it's not that goddamn hard, I don't understand why they can't just DO IT & why they don't realize that people are 100% more likely to come back for more, & that every time they screw someone over, they're causing damage to their business. It just isn't sensible. The money earned from one rip off isn't much compared to the potential multiple sales & recommendations to others from satisfied customers....
(I realize now this thread is several months old, so I apologize for chiming in so late, but I just felt it necessary to put in my two cents. Plus thanks. Sorry if doing so is lame. It was kind of one of those things where I already wrote it all & there was no way I wasn't posting it after that...) :/