Okay, I'm going to do something I've never ever ever done before, I'm going to review something my GF brought on ebay. So, my GF tells me that she's bought the cheapest possible mouse on ebay so that she can find out if it's her old mouse cutting out or if something's wrong with her USB ports. The mouse only cost £5.00 (inc postage) so I thought fair enough. She then goes on to tell me that it's supposed to be a gaming mouse that comes with additional weights etc with a 3.5g infrared sensor with a 3500 dpi. By this point I'm starting to have my doubts, but hey, it's only a fiver. So the mouse turns up in a padded envelope and no box. She takes it out of the envelope to reveal it's wrapped in what looks like sticky back plastic. She says it feels too light so I come over to her desk and take a look and she's holding what looks like from a distance to be a Razer DeathAdder (I feel I need to point out here that I wasn't wearing my glasses). Then I realise that where three snakes should be are three dragon's heads even better I thought (Ryu means dragon in Japanese) then I pick it up and realise that the KitKat I had in my other hand weighs more than the mouse. I turn it over to find a quality control sticker holding a slideable panal shut. I open it to find it's an area to store the weights - which are missing. I then notice that the mouse has the name Eplon stamped on the bottom. By this point I'm trying not to choke to death on the KitKat as I try to swallow and laugh at the same time (not a pleasant thing also apparently not what they mean when they mention death by chocolate). She plugs in the mouse and it starts to install drivers it then starts to work partially (the scroll wheel doesn't seem to register) then the final nail in the coffin for this mouse - the three dragon heads start to change colours at a ridiculous speed and not just between one or two colours, I've managed to count seven colours so far. She says that it's the slowest, most sluggish mouse she's ever used, and there's a huge delay when it tries to register any kind of clicks with both the left AND right mouse buttons. So the point of this review is simple we may all moan about the cost of our fancy gaming keyboard and mouse set ups or about the high cost of our macro enabled keyboards etc but consider the alternative we could all be using a £5.00 mouse made in china by Eplon. Needless to say I will be getting her another mouse rather rapidly. Oh and the answer to the question of; When's a Deathadder not a Deathadder? That's easy, When its an Eplon!
I've seen quite a few blatant ripoffs of popular / high end gaming mice recently- never worth it though as they will indeed just be piles of shite...
Congraturation! You experience first Chinese knock off product! Be proud it was only cheap mouse. ssd with 'raid' off brand sd cards in it, (imagine with 'legit ssd brand' sticker over the text... I can't find the relevant article) or counterfeit baby formula. Of course the world is also full of 'So-ny' DVD players and 'Guuci' shoes.
They look neat in theory, but a lot of them only can read up to 4gb per sd, and the performance is terrible as most of them only can run in PIO. Even the 'decent' ones that won't set your pc on fire are pretty worthless.
It would last a few months as a SSD drive. SD flash memory does not tolerate nearly as many rewrites and Windows' page file writes would be a killer. I've also seen Chinese laptop adapters weighed down with a lump of lead to make them seem more substantial. It doesn't stop with technology though. China also has a teeming trade in fake honey (corn syrup), fake eggs (yes, really; complete with shell, egg white and egg yolk) and even fairly credible grapes made of gelatine with some sort of cellulose coating as skin.
My missus made the mistake of buying GHD's online from a store named something like "GHDOFFICIALUK.co.uk". They were £70 instead of £110, and she made the grave mistake of not speaking to me first. A WHOIS showed it was owned by someone in China and it had only been setup within the last week. Now the mistake was telling me to be honest, because I ridiculed her for months about it! Either way she safely learnt her lesson!
Okay I can't find my camera to take any pictures but some one else who brought one has uploaded a video to youtube showing the insane flashing lights that I now never stop flashing. anyway here's the video;
The company I work for is supplying specialised equipment to China for their environmental stuff or whatever. I don't know exactly. Anyway, we're going into it fully knowing that as soon as they can make a cheap knockoff, they will, and we're just gonna squeeze the mangrapes as much as we can before they manage it! Luckily the chemistry of our products is fairly complex, so we have a few years, and the company is held in good repute and won't be knocked off of its spot in the industry
