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#3287421 29-Sep-2024 00:27

Well a couple hundred, $264.00 NZD
If we can't trust dodgy crapvenders, who can we trust!

Read reviews, or better yet pick a seller someone else has used... and read reviews. And at the end of the day still treat it like a gamble and you'll maybe be ok..... possibly.

I've always used paypal as another precaution but any aliexpress trade is potentially dodgy no matter what.

I've upgraded an old Mac Pro's Xeons using and a v2 xeon in an hp z420 using aliexpress successfully as well, though they were both very cheap.

neb:

dcsharp: 5700x3d aliexpress special.

You paid several hundred dollars to some random crapvendor for something from God-knows-what source?

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#3287422 29-Sep-2024 03:22

neb:
dcsharp: 5700x3d aliexpress special.

You paid several hundred dollars to some random crapvendor for something from God-knows-what source?

They didn’t go to a crapvender like Noel Leeming. They probably went to a store selling thousands of the same parts with excellent reviews. It’s a pretty safe bet.

I’ve bought plenty of hardware (CPUs, GPUs, mini PCs) from Ali with good results because I’ve bought from stores that sell hundreds or thousands of pieces of the same part.

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#3287430 29-Sep-2024 08:46

Handle9:
neb:
dcsharp: 5700x3d aliexpress special.

You paid several hundred dollars to some random crapvendor for something from God-knows-what source?

They didn’t go to a crapvender like Noel Leeming. They probably went to a store selling thousands of the same parts with excellent reviews. It’s a pretty safe bet.

I’ve bought plenty of hardware (CPUs, GPUs, mini PCs) from Ali with good results because I’ve bought from stores that sell hundreds or thousands of pieces of the same part.

I always wondered about things with moving parts. The couriers can be pretty rough and the packaging on other items can be a little light,

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#3288738 1-Oct-2024 19:19

This hose-end water meter (presumably to distinguish it from a bell-end water meter):

It's pretty impressive, it's just sold as the usual generic thing but it's actually made for this established US company (and presumably European as well since I got one with BSP fittings and set for litres). Came with clear English instructions and spare gaskets and thread tape, and it's already paid for itself. I'd run a weeper hose around the ferns and covered it in mulch to keep them watered during the summer, it ran for a few minutes and then stalled. Without the data from the meter I'd probably have ended up digging up the whole thing to find the problem, turns out a weta had crawled into the connecting hose at some point and died, and was blocking most of the flow. After removing it it ran again for a bit and stalled, this time it was the lack of water pressure, it seems you need quite a bit of pressure to force the water out through the pores and simply opening the tap a bit wasn't enough to keep it running beyond the initial flow. Even with the tap fully open (on a 2000L tank) the flow isn't very high, the meter is showing it but it's not obvious from the hose itself.

I don't know how much work diagnosing the issue this has just saved me.

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#3292676 3-Oct-2024 23:49

Aerosol straws! Available in 3 exciting lengths! Get you these!

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#3292677 4-Oct-2024 00:25

neb:

This hose-end water meter (presumably to distinguish it from a bell-end water meter):

It's pretty impressive, it's just sold as the usual generic thing but it's actually made for this established US company (and presumably European as well since I got one with BSP fittings and set for litres). Came with clear English instructions and spare gaskets and thread tape, and it's already paid for itself. I'd run a weeper hose around the ferns and covered it in mulch to keep them watered during the summer, it ran for a few minutes and then stalled. Without the data from the meter I'd probably have ended up digging up the whole thing to find the problem, turns out a weta had crawled into the connecting hose at some point and died, and was blocking most of the flow. After removing it it ran again for a bit and stalled, this time it was the lack of water pressure, it seems you need quite a bit of pressure to force the water out through the pores and simply opening the tap a bit wasn't enough to keep it running beyond the initial flow. Even with the tap fully open (on a 2000L tank) the flow isn't very high, the meter is showing it but it's not obvious from the hose itself.

I don't know how much work diagnosing the issue this has just saved me.

Looks very useful.

You could sell it to local councils to help them find their leaks. My council is wasting about 50% of drinking water from leaking pipes LOL

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#3296432 12-Oct-2024 13:42

I'm not typically an AliExpress shopper, so can anyone tell me whether it's normal to receive an "order shipped" email, followed by a "delivery update" (that doesn't seem to tell me anything) a day layer, and then a "package in transit" a day after that? Is there a difference between "shipped" and "in transit"?

It's a sub-$20 piece of rubbish that I don't need, so I won't particularly mind if it goes walkabout, but it just seems a bit strange to me.

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#3296433 12-Oct-2024 13:51

Behodar:

I'm not typically an AliExpress shopper, so can anyone tell me whether it's normal to receive an "order shipped" email, followed by a "delivery update" (that doesn't seem to tell me anything) a day layer, and then a "package in transit" a day after that? Is there a difference between "shipped" and "in transit"?

It's a sub-$20 piece of rubbish that I don't need, so I won't particularly mind if it goes walkabout, but it just seems a bit strange to me.

Pretty normal. Several companies tend to be involved in shipping the products, so I really only start to pay attention when tracking says it's either cleared customs in Auckland, or on its way to the local depot.

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#3296437 12-Oct-2024 14:21

Looking at an AliExpress tracking now and the latest update is arrived at departure transport hub on Oct 13. That's tomorrow.

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#3296544 12-Oct-2024 17:58

RunningMan:
Looking at an AliExpress tracking now and the latest update is arrived at departure transport hub on Oct 13. That's tomorrow.

Time zone conversion glitch, you can never be totally sure which time zone(s) things are done in.

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#3296608 12-Oct-2024 20:32

Journeyman:

Aerosol straws! Available in 3 exciting lengths! Get you these!

Just guessing based on the photo that you now have several lifetimes of aerosol straws, right ?

This is one of the downsides of alix. It's already unbelievable 'value' but there is no way someone is putting one straw in an envelope for 10c.

I needed an o ring for a repair recently but you can't order just one o ring , you have to order a kit. Now I have 199 o rings I am very unlikely to use 😩

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#3296791 12-Oct-2024 23:37

elpenguino:

I needed an o ring for a repair recently but you can't order just one o ring , you have to order a kit. Now I have 199 o rings I am very unlikely to use 😩

Ah, but the magic of AliExpress means that shipping you 200 O-rings half way across the world to your door (now with the added bonus of GST) still costs you less than half the price that a pack of 5 would cost you from Bunnings, not including the cost of fuel and time visiting 3 stores because the first two were out of stock despite what their website said, and now your 5 minute repair job ended up taking all afternoon.

We've all been there.

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#3296792 12-Oct-2024 23:40

elpenguino: I needed an o ring for a repair recently but you can't order just one o ring , you have to order a kit. Now I have 199 o rings I am very unlikely to use 😩

So you should have ordered another 9 packs to go with it and then built a scale model of the Titanic out of o-rings.

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#3296891 13-Oct-2024 13:50

I now have 2 drawers of assortment packs from there of might be useful one day things. The least useful was a set of threaded inserts for wood to take a machine screw when I only needed one to replace the one that was lost from the bottom of a subwoofer where you could screw feet or spikes into.

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#3297075 14-Oct-2024 03:08

elpenguino:

Journeyman:

Aerosol straws! Available in 3 exciting lengths! Get you these!

Just guessing based on the photo that you now have several lifetimes of aerosol straws, right ?

This is one of the downsides of alix. It's already unbelievable 'value' but there is no way someone is putting one straw in an envelope for 10c.

I needed an o ring for a repair recently but you can't order just one o ring , you have to order a kit. Now I have 199 o rings I am very unlikely to use 😩

Well, they come in 50 packs so I just bought a 50 of 12cm lengths. It was $3.80 🤷‍♂️

Often the aerosol straws have already been mostly filched from the cans in-store and if you find one the cans that still has its straw, you'll probably lose it before you lose your 10mm socket. So will 50 straws last a lifetime? Yes... no... maybe... For $3.80 it doesn't really matter.

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