I bought fake EDC gear from Wish. How bad could it be? 

Not knives

It certainly happens with microphones.

Some times the Chinese are the designers and people from all over the world travel there to find these products to put their logo on and sell them as originals. Then unaware consumers see that there is a generic product that looks as their branded one and think it's a knockoff. The mayority of social media viral products are like this.

Well considering both the knives he got are US made that wouldn't be the case for these, at least with the knives. Of course with other things it does happen. There was a 30$ version of a makita impact driver floating around a couple years ago.

@@evanacey1414 no knives too dude. On benchmade and only made in the US knives? Nah. But lower end Kershaws or other companies (yes even US ones) who have some of their stuff made in China? Absolutely.

Yes. But did you see me try to take it out with pliers? That blade was not moving. Especially with a flick. 👍🏻

@@ChrispyThings I saw, I'm thinking maybe the bumping on the table before that may have jammed the action back with the blade causing them to both become stuck. If not that then definitely just the cheap quality. I have some friends that have owned micro techs and you can see the difference in quality just by looking at it.

Yes. I have a German made OTF $800 knife and even that one sometimes does this. It's an easy fix but if you slam the knife on something hard like he did, it may break the unit.

@@stansmith4054 what company makes german OTF's? they're completely banned here, selling, buying and owning any at all.

@@AronMouz lol when people call out my straight up bullshit post I make literally just to troll people...I just admit it was all BS..wonder if they will

Yep sounds about right

I want one of those chainmail gloves. Build my battle suit. I still need a racing onesy fireproof ofcourse plus some tactical pants with knee spikes or something straight leg blade against knee cap. With protection around the knee. Then when you knee somebody the tip is pointing up.

lmao

i actually lol'd

I’m surprised your stuff arrived. I’m at 1/3 streak with them. The other few items I’m not calling or emailing about as they’re cheap items, but it’s shocking that all these people are getting their stuff tbh.

Absolutely! I’ll have to check out those flashlights. I’d like to compare them to so of my legit counterparts.

Some Flashlight that I could fit on my MOLLE system and shines in front of me? Like a headlamp but on my vest?

If they have same serial number there's is fake too

I can't get past imagining actually carrying that pos.

@@Rascal77s LOL

Keep it that way. Lol

They need to be shutdown

This guy did it on purpose....to sell the video...any fool know thst when you buy a $400 knife for $50 its a knockoff!!

@@truth-Hurts375 $14 not $50 let's not give them any undo credit lol

It's not wish but AliExpress has some good stuff on there when it comes to video games.

Not when it's brand new and clean. Sure, after it gets dirty.

Don’t use WD-40 either. That will cause it to gum up later. Only use a dry lube like REM Oil.

@@littlejackalo5326 I bought a brand new UTX 75 and after about 100 deployments it failed no lint in it or anything 340 dollars at a gun and knife show

@@evanacey1414 okay I was looking online and it said to use that 😂 may have been a troll . Didn’t want to buy rem oil if I didn’t have to. I tried using kpl and it didn’t help.

I just watched an unboxing of a marfione custom beard comb and it had the exact same issue. Those who say it doesn’t happen to new ones don’t know what they are talking about. That being said, there are better OTF’s from wish/China, and some really impressive pieces if you are willing to spend over $50.

The thing is that thoose brands are selling products with a price close to the cost of known good brands, so no one is gonna risk it and buy one of thoose when they can get an Opinel for cheaper.

Two other really good knife brands are ganzo/firebird and eafengrow. Most of their blades are d2 tool steel which isn't fancy, but takes a nice, long lasting work edge.

Yes, that was my observation as well. I actually bought one of the Wish ones just like this. As a knife I love it. I can't afford $200+ for a freaking knife, but for $20 I can't complain. The only issue I have with it is that the screws holding the belt clip in don't tighten the clip down so it's always loose. Otherwise it's been a decent little knife for the year or so I've had it.

He also was looking at a bug out and not a 940 in the review

It's standard just for Chinese goods. I bought a set of 10 glass tanks for my vape mod a few years back, and I was completely confused when I got this black tactical box in the mail. Not complaining though, because I repurposed it too.

“It’s not stealing and appropriating already-existing designs, it’s the Chinese way of manufacturing”

Maybe the flashlight, but it's not a knockoff, just a cheap flashlight as far as I can tell. Microtech, Benchmade, and Dango are made in the USA.

Bahji took the words right out of my mouth.

Nope. But they do make very convincing fakes

Bingo

Now that Microtech is outsourcing production to China, quite likely.

The Chinese actually really like archery and fishing as well as many outdoor sports. So they probably make pretty good stuff for themselves and to us in the US it is dirt cheap.

That’s a good thing! Haha

I went the opposite direction xD I have the dango wallet and want to buy the 20 dollar one for vacations and shit where it may get lost or damaged cards are easy to cancel or replace but losing a 100 dollar wallet stings

@@caseytyler8326 if much rather lose my wallet than the stuff it contains. Cancelling cards, ordering a new driver's license, and the other licenses I hold, plus all the other stuff. I keep a $100 Bill with a note in my wallet that says, "keep the $100, but please return the wallet or place in a mailbox. It's buried deep enough that an honest person isn't going to see it when they're looking for my ID, while dishonest people that go through the entire wallet will see it. The stuff in my wallet is worth more money and more of my time to replace, than my $250 Tumi wallet.

@@littlejackalo5326 yeah Iost my dango on the beach (state park not a lot of people ) it had a orbit credit card tracker but it wasn’t there a nice lady found it gave it to police who mailed it to me.

I've done the same with high dollar knives. Bought the $50 knockoff...just to see how it fits in my hand. Then bought the real deal.

Why buy the same thing with a brand stamped in?

Same, you just gotta be careful about what you order.

Yup 🙌🏾

I bought a Surefire Scout "clone"....its the same light as my legit Scout. The actual Scout costs over $300.....the clone was $46. It's the same light.

🤣

Or it's just made in the same factory out of cheaper materials. Or just reverse engineered.

As far as I know, microtech, Benchmade and Dango are made here in the US. Not China.

@@ChrispyThings very possible. It’s just how it is with most things on wish. Made in the same factory as name brand stuff. I bougnt a knock of ridge wallet from wish. Was a 1:1 replica of the real deal. Couldn’t tell one single difference. Weighed exactly the same too. I’m convinced it’s the same factory as ridge wallet but without the brand name on it

Thanks bud

So your saying Dango wallets are made in China?

Until you actually use it

🤣

Thanks!

You will discover it is a knock off the day you really need it

@@briancampbell6898 That is absolutely true. A knock off need not be sturdy as they do not need to worry about servicing items they built.

And thats exactly why i believe knock offs should not exist.

@@FDE_Doom_GirlI think it's more like counterfeits.

Well I don’t fully disagree, some items are made with high quality materials and go through more quality testing to ensure that your item isn’t going to fall right apart on you. These items from wish are able to skirt the copy right laws completely as they simply don’t function the same ways here in the US. So they can brand far far, far more cheap material/ products as the real deal at heavy fractions mainly because it’s just that the items cost the fraction to produce

Because the ones making the clones are often the same factories making the real ones, all they do is remove logos.

@@MadmanDKDK not "often," occasionally.

@@littlejackalo5326 You would be surprised how often this happens. One factory owner in China making vaping products cloned an ENTIRE brand and all their products for YEARS because they were making the real products as well. And it's been happening to so many other areas as well, not just vaping. The owner of the actual brand from the US, went to China at one of the vape expos, where this scumbag had the logo plastered everywhere and had a fake version of the real owners name on his chest. The owner of the real brand slapped them with a IP Infringement lawsuit, and got laughed out of the building by the judge. So it happens more often than you apparently think. They even have fake McDonalds, Burger Kings etc. showing off as if they are the real thing.

Yeah because the factory making the clone is using the same tooling as the factory making the real thing. Sometimes they'll use cheaper screws, springs, aluminum, whatever. But it's essentially the same product. That's why these products are attractive in the first place.

@@SB-or5mj sometimes it's the same material but they skip QC and extra processes that refine the original product like polishing the CNC metals.

This light is junk

I bought one of those type lights years ago and the problem is after a couple of minutes the Cree LED heated up so much that the solder broke Free. Luckily I was able to fix it with one of my surplus Cree LEDs and now works fine. Hint, you add thermal paste to the underside before soldering to ensure a good thermal distribution.

I’m well aware of the laws here. Thanks though👍🏻 And the gravity knife re-evaluation was huge

and some elitist telling you all those issues while they sip cheap coffee out of a styraphome cup while they sit in there cardboard box

As late ng as it's cheap

Everything made in china is slave labour. So even the original product is being made by the same slaves making the knockoff. Do you think the slaves making iPhones are better off than the others? They have nets outside windows to prevent suicide, and they do pregnancy tests to women monthly and if positive they just give them abortions.

Jon, u should check out ali express, I think a lot more legit items on there

I'd be surprised if it was even an 8cr13mov blade. The detail in the knock-off is impressive, though.

@@bahjinelson3986 yep the action on the axis lock was pretty good-looking actually. You hit the nail on the head I'd be surprised if it was even 8cr 100% it's not D2.. The funny thing is I believe the Cabela's Exclusive 940 is actually D-2

@@BuffaloNickel9 the axis lock looks similar but i don't trust it lol

Well the real issue usually isn't direct since these clones sell cheap on Wish. The issue is when some jerk swaps them with a genuine one and returns it, or resells as genuine. That's literally theft.

@Nat Wru Copying the design is one thing, that would be called a clone. This shit is fully counterfeit, copying the design, the branding, the box, the logo, everything. Not trying to be *like* another company’s product, but pretending to actually *be* another company’s product. Microtech gets counterfeits sent in all the time for warranty work, from people thinking they have the real thing. Though how anyone with any common sense could buy a $500 USA made knife for $30 that ships from fucking China and think it’s going to be genuine is beyond me.

Alternatively it encourages the legit manufacturers to focus more on their build quality and fit and finish.

I don't mind paying more for quality, ethics and sustainability, but the EDC gear industry is a massive rip off anyway. Most of it is already made in china (how do you think they get the exact design, probs same factory) and sold for ludicrous prices to gullible people. I mean there's £/$100 tiny slip joints which STILL don't have a proper grind like skandi. For £15 or less the morakniv companion has a skandi grind and is made in Sweden.

@@jdisdetermined those semantics are made up. A clone is a 1 to 1 copy, same as a counterfeit. I hear people trying to make this argument over semantics distinguishing between a clone and a counterfeit, all the time in the high end vape community, and it's just false. If their intention is to make it look like the original enough that some people don't know, it's a counterfeit or clone; whatever you want to call it. This is regardless of whether they put a logo on it or not. The whole "they didn't put a logo on it, so they're not trying to pass it off as real," is nonsense. They copied the product, as close to 1:1 as they can at that price point.

Your talking to a guy that didn't have enough sense to pull the blade out on the otf knife because it came off track

I know, I was declined because I could only afford .99 cents a month

Wish is total bull crap. I rather save up for quality than get rubbish with INTEREST!

Actually you wish what you get for

@@briancampbell6898 I heard you actually get what you pay for

Didn’t work

Hey Evil, taurus didn't knock off the 92 FS see Beretta had a factory built in the 70s to make the model 92 for the Brasilian government. Well the contract ran out and the machines were outdated and worn so Beretta was going to scuttle them at sea but Forjas Taurus came up with money to buy the machines and tooling. Beretta made money and Taurus got the right to make a similar good quality 9mm pistol. They do resemble the Beretta however not any of the functioning parts are interchangeable that includes the magazines. A Beretta mag will not work in the PT92 and the opposite is true as well. So it is not a mere knockoff. The design is similar but it's just the overall anesthetic bro. Ever wonder why the Taurus revolvers got better in the late 90s to early 2000s? It's because Smith and Wesson had a partnership to have some castings made at the Taurus foundry and they had a good relationship so S and W taught Taurus how to improve upon their affordable yet decent quality pistols. You simply can't beat a Taurus G3 9mm for the price if you need a good dependable handgun in 9mm for under 300 usd when on sale. They are not as nice as Glock or Sig but they are dependable. Now let's talk about Springfield totally ripping off the HS2000 pistol from the Czechs from HS produkt. They ONLY ADDED THEIR LOGO OF CROSSED CANNONS AND CHARGE 600 INSTEAD OF 189 WHICH WAS THE original retail price of the "XD" line of pistols. They charge 2k for the battle rifle designed by HS produkt as well. It's a really nicely built bullpup 5.56mm rifle that I do believe takes AR type mags. The Czech army has really good quality weapons. Springfield even sells $800 1911 .45 acp caliber pistols that have Made in Brazil stamped on the inside of the slide. Do you want to guess what foundry those frames and slides come from when made in Brasil? Yes Taurus lol I'm not a tard I do use the correct non American spelling of Brasil normally. The other was a quote of the stamping I witnessed. Hope you enjoy as many guns as possible buddy. I read all this info from several gun publications so I figured I would pass along the info. Let's all stay locked and loaded to defend our rights and our am American freedoms.

That is scary

They were close. But not quite.

@@ChrispyThings The true output of that light is about 1,000 lumens. The battery has about 1,900 MAH,,,,,, I test these all the time. You can get the same light off Ebay for about the same.. I've had some last years and give them out to pppl who just need anything. I carry a Surefire Edcl2-t about 150.00.. Just saying.......

Nice

Yep. My watch was broken. I should but one off of Ali express and compare

Lets not forget that people are people. Unless youre a racist or something, then forget I said anything.

I know thanks 🙏

I couldn’t just “pull it out” if that’s what was bothering you. It was legit jammed

Haha I bet they are