I got SCAMMED on AliExpress 

agreed, if the seller causes any trouble, Aliexpress will step in and sort it out for you.

Very true!

That’s why it’s cheap shit they ain’t gonna give a shit bout sending stuff back

Yep. Its 100% money back garuantee lives up to its claim.

@@wrth very true

Even beyond that, nearly anything you can find on those 2 is on Ali and there is a high chance they are from ali baba as well

Agreed!

Crazy

That goes to show that this this channel is more about novelty and whacky things rather than useful things. I've used AliExpress for so many years now to buy replacement parts for consoles and phones. Its 1000% more useful than Temu or Wish.

Yeah honestly Aliexpress is the biggest Chinese online marketplace. They are surely one of the first as well.

AliExpress and Genuine don't combine.

​@@Gabriel-jf2oqthey are honestly pretty good in terms of refund/return policies, so it doesn't matter.

Was it actually genuine or just a good copy? Seems like everytime I tried to get something "genuine" on ali or wish it ends up beeing fake. Can get some decent stuff but never got anything that's truly genuine even if it's marked as beeing genuine🤷‍♂️ Always ended up getting a refund

@@Gabriel-jf2oq Kinda depends. Something like a decent retro handheld will be genuine.

My bot spidey sense is tingling…..

Oh, that really depends on what you buy... ALOT of electronics I would never buy from ali or wish..

@Oystein87 full on electronics sure, but components to build electronics I've never had issues

@@forsakenparallel I am talking about components

​@@Oystein87you'd be surprised. Got a ps vita screen for over 20 euros. Very nice screen! And it has lasted since 2017 or 2018. But yeah, it depends on the items. Nit everything is great in AliExpress. Also it seems like Austin just gets items instead of seeing if the reviews were bad for the item. I always check for items with more reviews and also the ratio between good and bad reviews as well as read the bad reviews too. Because of that, I've rarely had issues

I hope Austin see this comment and give this handheld another chance I’m curious about it

Yes, thats exactly what happens if it cant detect the micro SD. The screen remains black with the power light on.

Yeah, that's what I suspected. If it runs a Linux distro and not it's own thing, without the SD Card it wouldn't show anything on the screen.

I also came to say, I've had emulating handhelds that you also have to hit the start button or possibly a combo of start and another button to turn it on after the power is enabled.

I thought the same when I got mine. The stupid thing is broken... until I saw the microsd card that wasn't noted anywhere in the instructions, put it in and.. magic. Even if there isn't an update, I hope they found it and got to see what a great toy it is for a mere $15.

Not my experience at all - a product broke after 3 months of usage and Aliexpress was anything but helpful.

I disagree, I've bought headphones that failed on one side and they said my proof video wasn't good enough with no option to dispute

I smell a bot

Their customer service sucks bad

I've had sellers that were great to deal with others that were ass.

Bro why though? 😅

@@VinnytotheK I use it to play both of my Pokémon Go accounts at the same time so it got hot really fast. At least it looks like a beefy Pokédex now though! 😅

@@TimidSylveon Okay that's pretty sick lmao

​@@TimidSylveon i wanna see how that looks like 😂, pls make a video

Haha! That’s funny, you could just buy the fans now and throw a couple on the hot spots

Facts for a 2012 device it takes better pictures than most midrange devices

I'm so used to Amazon having ultra fast delivery though, even non-Prime items arrive in less than 1 week most of the time. AliExpress is cool but I don't have the patience to wait an entire month to get some cheap electronics. AliExpress has "fast shipping" but it takes like 2 weeks and is only on a very tiny amount of stuff.

I had a similar experience when buying from them. They seem a bit shady because there's a bit of "too good to be true" going on, but in my experience they're actually super reliable

Amazon is trash, people are brainwashed

Expensive chinese fishing rods, with them you can wack a friend and they dont break :D

no it most likely doesnt have malware on it all it has is a custom rom and recovery on it so he needs to use odin to update the modem and bootloader to kitkat base and then he can flash lineage os 14.1 along with gapps and magisk if he chooses too but most likely it just has a custom rom but thats a normal warning message when your phone has been modified but it doesnt mean it has malware

@@jontranchida8179 Yup, I know that the message just means that it's rooted. I've rooted phones in the past and I've seen that. However, when you consider that this device was purchased from a seller we know nothing about, and the seller didn't disclose that it's rooted, you shouldn't trust it. Same goes for computers. When I buy a laptop or desktop PC, unless I bought it brand new from a reputable store and the PC is from a reputable brand, I assume it has malware on it and do a fresh install of Windows. In both cases, the device might be just fine and malware free, but you can't risk it with this stuff.

​@@jontranchida8179 Was that phone even a legit one or a fake?

Definitely possible, I buy a lot of parts there tbh probably could have built a good few with how much I order haha

Reminds me of metal gear online…especially playing ps2 online back in the day…

most aliexpress sellers are big inlt supplier so they actually didn’t care that much for some bucks refund, most of them will eventually gave up after several days and just give you back your money without demanding their item back.

If you look for other people selling those modders typically sell them for 2 to 3 times the price he paid

I wish Austin had looked inside the portable GC because I like the idea, but I don't know where the $550 is going. If there's no board fab (besides maybe gamepad interfaces?) is it just the Wii board and screen screwed into the case and the controller parts fitted in along with a battery?

@@AerinRavage you can Google Ashida's Wii Portable to see how to build one of these. It's a rough project (I've done it, it is a genuinely fantastic semi-portable emulation machine but jesus it took forever) You have to mod the Wii main board (in a way that of you make a small error you will completely brick it), you need batteries, a custom sound board and speaker, a modified GameCube controller board split between the two sides, a screen, a custom shell (Ashida's is only a 5 inch screen so this one is larger) and a couple other things.

@@AerinRavage i would assume its more labor costs than gimmicks or features

i mean if you wanted to play those so bad you could just buy an actual wii with a controller and mod it for like half the price or way less even

ye

you already know it!

Why is bro glazing so hard

@@Elatenl Mate Im not a bot

Same

Actually getting a refund on AliExpress is quite easy tho 😅

@@JonLake Yeah, the problem starts when the seller contacts you and tells you "the order's on the way so they cannot cancel the order even though its pass deadline... And when you decide to open a dispute again, the 15 days dispute is over and" sorry you cannot request returns for this order" For the most part I received my orders. Most sellers are genuine. 10/10. But there are some who knows the policy too well and plays you. Thanks now I know about that and seller won't be able to scam me again though.

​@@ltu_aheadwhynot3471if you ever get scam again, do think about opening a dispute BEFORE it expires or you won't have your money back. If you do open a dispute, it's like 70% chance they refund you with no problem and 25% chance they try to play around the regulations in order to make you lose the time limit for opening dispute... Another 5% is like they won't even respond at the complaint and then AliExpress comes in and forces them to refund you 🥂 Some people may say don't buy there again if we got scammed but you need to understand that for the price compared to ebay and amazon we are willing to buy again. I personally buy only with big and high rated sellers now and if there is a problem... Well they try to help you and worst case they refund with some day delays...

@@sevine4667 paying with your credit card on PayPal gives you so much layer of protection, 15 days AliExpress, 30 days PayPal and most credit card offers 90days protection. It's sad that some people still get scammed in 2023 😶‍🌫️

I was just going to comment the same I bet it's trying to load it's OS off of an SD card that's missing or corrupted

Who is the girl near Ken?