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Hey everyone
What is your worst experience with someone?
Mine is, funnily enough, related to an XDA that I bought off eBay...
I sold my XDA Orbit 1 to a friend of mine for £167
After I had collected a decent amount of money, I found an XDA Orbit 2 on eBay for £257.50 including postage. Auction said brand new factory sealed xda orbit 2, with pouch, charger, box, co pilot 7, and it listed all the features for the xda orbit 2. Seller had 100% positive feedback (115) and was from Essex. Seemed pretty decent.
Bought the item...a week later. No emails, no item. Had to call their house multiple times and everytime I would call, someone else would answer and I could never get to speak to the seller (he was always at 'work').
Eventually I get an email from the seller....'sorry I couldn't send the item any sooner, my account had somehow messed up and I needed to reset the password. Item will be sent tommorow'.
Great! So I should be expecting the item soon. I go to school next day, and when I get picked up to go home I ask 'did anything come in the post for me today?'. The reply I got was: 'Yes, a parcel'. YES! The orbit 2 has finally come! After about 1 and a half weeks of waiting its finally here!
I rush home banging my knee on the way in (im soo anxious!). I look past the door and see a big, brown parcel addressed to me. I grab it, run to the living room and rip the packaging to shreads!
I have removed all the packaging, and take the box...I turn it over only too see it say: 'XDA Orbit' with the picture of the XDA Orbit 1 on it. Thats right, the seller sent me an XDA Orbit 1 and not the XDA Orbit 2! He sent me a Artemis and not a Polaris! He didn't even include the memory card for the CoPilot 7, or the USB cable for the PDA, handsfree kit, pouch, etc. All missing!
Nnooo!!! I paid £250.00 for something thats worth £120.00!
I sent the seller an email and got a reply soon after. He said sorry just return the item if your not happy with it.
Posted it off today, so I should be expecting the refund.
Oh well, it happens and it will happen to everyone some day!
So whats your worst experience with someone? I bet people will mention alot of stuff to do with eBay aswell!
NEVER buy anything off ebay. people have recieved fake chinese mp3/mp4 players instead of ipod nano.
when you see unexpectedly low price, just don't bother yourself.
i bought my athena from here, £260 with blocked imei, great price at the time, as i alredy had a phone for calling...
paid through paypal, and it came a day later by special delivery.
When I sold mine, i made the mistake of selling to italy, and it didnt arrive. it might well have arrived but he said it didnt, and the post offiice said i couldnt post a phone recorded to italy, so no tracking number, and me with no money and no athena
but i guess it wasnt really an ebay prob...
Also, i bought a psp from ebay when I was like 13, and the guy stole 75 quid off me... luckily i got some back, but not all of it.
In fairness, ebay generally is good, i picked up a 5m gold plated 2 rca to 3.5mm jack for 2 quic including postage...
so its if you wana take the risk on big things...
Rory
i bought a faulty hdd TV recorder second hand which didn't work from an eBay seller.
mariner_heart said:
NEVER buy anything off ebay. people have recieved fake chinese mp3/mp4 players instead of ipod nano.
when you see unexpectedly low price, just don't bother yourself.
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hmm i wudnt totaly agree i bourt my HTC TyTN off ebay ages ago for £100 quid....i was convinced it was going to be rubbish probly with bustted buttons and stuff hanging off it u know the drill....
....i was completly wrong it came like it was brand new! id say the only thing wrong was that it didnt come with earphones and it had a small dent in top left but it is unnoticeable
but i do agree it is very hard to get cheap stuff without it being fake!
Tell me about it...
I've had loads of problems with eBay, not just the one with the XDA.
Once I bought a remote controlled BB tank from a business seller. He was advertising it as 'BRAND NEW'.
When it came, it was opened, the BB pellets were scattered all over the box, clearly second hand, when I tried to use it, it literally broke after 10 seconds! Someone tried glueing the wheel back on as it had broke!
It was so crap aswell, it didn't even fire that good! The remote control sometimes didn't work aswell!
Another time I bought a 1/6 scale electric rc car. It was massive but after literally 12 hours of charging the battery it would only run for 15 minutes - It would considerably slow down after the 3 minutes! The rest of the 12 minutes it would be slow and then after that it wouldn't run at all!
I was driving it and it skidded on some ice, and smashed into little pieces after it hit a parked car! Lmao as funny as it seems now, it was kinda annoying back in the time!
Another time I bought a slingshot which snapped after a month
I bought some rifle mounts for my air rifle scope which were advertised as 30mm, but when they came they were too big!
And just now I have found out that a 2Gb memory card I bought is fake!
I don't even do much transactions on eBay aswell! I've only bought about 30 items from there!
Anyway the moral of the short stories are...don't spend any more than £15.00 when buying from eBay! That way when it messes up you won't kick yourself as hard!
Also you should know, don't SELL on eBay either. You get stupid buyers who will buy the item, leave you good feedback and then a month or two later issue a chargeback on their credit card! People even try and scam you to get your items!
By the way I have just noticed, I have exessively used the exclamation mark in this post (!) LOL
I went to and called 10 different stores yesterday, and couldn't find Nook in the NE Atlanta area :-(. Only one I found was from someone trying to sell one a month old for 267.00 but its was raining and he didn't want to meet because of weather =(. Really can't wait til valentines day. Oh yeah even Amazon has them @ 281 + shipping, lol did xda drive up demand?
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I just picked up one at the Walmart in Ellenwood, GA ....they still have 2 left.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939589
See this thread for more details.
Walmart sells them?
john10101 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939589
See this thread for more details.
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The recall turned out to be a rumor. They're just moving inventory around.
I live near the Mall of Georgia and the BN there had them in stock last time I checked a week or so ago.
Yes, after christmas they dropped the sony readers and started carrying the nook. That is where i bought mine.
our walmarts here dont carry nooks. our B&N has a whole cabinet full of them though
Yeah, my local BNs seem to have enough to go around. When I checked about a week ago, they said "we have plenty!", and I bought one from them
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Yes, after christmas they dropped the sony readers and started carrying the nook. That is where i bought mine.
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The WalMart near me in Alpharetta has had them before Christmas. My wife said that a few weeks ago they stopped having them. Probably B&N prioritizing selling through their own stores first.
The one at the forum on peachtree parkway (peachtree corners) had them last week.
You could call and check.
It was one that was never updated. 1.0.0 out of the box.
Daily Steals has Nook Color for $134.99 + $4.99 shipping. I have not purchased
from them but the cheapest I have seen for the Nook Color.
You beat me to it!
I had posted this a little bit ago in the "members found deals" of the market place.
I've ordered from dailysteals before with no issues!!
The link is http://www.dailysteals.com/?utm_sou...1_Tuesday_5_Deals_10_17_2011&utm_medium=email
I thought i was going to break the news... maybe next time.
Yep, the time to sell my NC was 2 months ago
Beat me too. Got my 3rd from them 2 weeks ago for $149! Took my son to B and N to get a gel case.. still $250. Amazing. She did hint that there would be a price change in a few weeks.
This nook color offer says "90 day warranty". The one I ordered 2 weeks ago from steals said "1 year warranty". Why the change or just a misprint?
B and N brought down the refurb ones on EBay to 149$ free shipping...
Daily steals says:
What You Get:
Barnes & Noble NOOK Color
Factory Refurbished
1 Year Warranty
Ridiculously good deal. Almost as good as the BlackBerry Playbook I got for $100 last week lol.
For that price, I'm tempted to get a second nook.
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Thats not a bad price but what I paid for mine is the kill all of deals....
Ready....?
$36.48 damn I love working at a store that purchases walmart.com returns for dirt cheap lol
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SCrid2000 said:
Ridiculously good deal. Almost as good as the BlackBerry Playbook I got for $100 last week lol.
For that price, I'm tempted to get a second nook.
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Playbook? Where from?
Stay away from DailySteals!!!
I ordered a NC on Sept 30.
Oct 6 showed a UPS tracking number.
No updates since then.
Last communication (after several e-mails) I had was on Sunday Oct 16 that they were "looking into it".
Nada since then. They don't answer their phones. E-mails get an auto response claiming they will respond within 1-2 business days, then nothing. Absolutely the WORST customer "service" I have ever encountered!
i bought one from them a week ago for 167 crap...
Yeah, dailysteals shipping is ridiculously slow, took like 2.5 weeks to receive mine. And you can't cancel it once it ships.
Not exactly a daily steals fanboy, but I bought my NC from them. It took a couple of weeks to get it...but no drama. Rooted it with CM7 and 15 minutes later...good to go. Had to alter the build.prop for Netflix. Everything good so far.
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They *finally* admitted that mine was "lost in transit" and will refund my money.
I got my wife and I's last night. I have her running CM7 off of microSD card, and I installed to internal memory. Everything went smoothly and the performance of both is great. Both overclocked to 1.2 Ghz.
Got in on the deal, received mine last evening... haven't had time to hack it properly yet, but guess what's going to happen when I get home tonight?
And yes, they took 8 days to ship, and it was another 4 or so in transit.
DailySteals is a bloody nightmare. Took forever to ship, and then to the wrong
address (not even the right state).
They do not answer their emails unless you start a paypal claim which I have, since
it has been over 2 weeks, and there is no chance I will ever receive it.
After all the hassle with Daily Steals (they actually *did* process the refund), I finally got around to ordering one for $139 with free shipping from buy.com. Ordered yesterday; UPS tracking shows delivery tomorrow.
Buy.com has them for $139 and free shipping
http://www.buy.com/prod/nook-color-by-barnes-noble-wifi-ereader/221376447.html
Anyone else in the same boat? Have you gotten the email from the escalation team yet? If so, how long did it take for them to contact you?
I am still waiting for the email the rep on the phone told me about last night. I explained that my speaker is too low compared to my GFs N7 and he mentioned a lot of people were complaining about this with the 16GB versions (go figure). He said that they'll ship me a new one and will send packaging labels to return this one. He said I should expect an email from Google some time this week and after that they'll send me the replacement with 1-day shipping. Is this accurate?
At least I can play around with the N7 for the time being. However, it's quite annoying knowing ill have to redo all my setup again. Só many apps, layout changes, settings changes, etc.
Oh well...
PS - Today at work I compared the screens between my 16GB and my coworkers 8GB and his was noticeably brighter when maxed out. Weird and sad that there is another thing I need to worry about now. I guess I expected these QC issues from Asus as an original Transformer owner.
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Nice! Wish they would fulfill my order before sending you a second one though... no offense.
I don't really mind the wait for my replacement. I just want some confirmation that they'll indeed be doing it. Don't want to run out of my grace period without getting to test out the second unit.
I'm sure you'll be getting yours soon.
6pm tonight will be 48 hrs since I contacted them, I don't have high hopes of getting a proper 2nd email.
I called them on Tues about the lifted screen and I got an email from them earlier today about getting a replacement. It seems that I will have to order a new unit (my card will be AUTH but not charged) and then the replacement in. They need to get the device within 21 days so that my card doesn't get charged. I've already placed the order through a special URL and now just waiting to see when they will ship.
akarol said:
I don't really mind the wait for my replacement. I just want some confirmation that they'll indeed be doing it. Don't want to run out of my grace period without getting to test out the second unit.
I'm sure you'll be getting yours soon.
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Oh, I completely understand. Mostly just poking fun anyway
I ordered early but changed it from 8 to 16gb on the 12th, so I have another week to go. They wouldnt honor my original order date despite giving them more money.
I'm too busy looking for a job anyway. Seems veterans aren't as quickly hired as I had previously thought.
I waited 48 still no reply. I tried to call they tel have to wait for escalation team.
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Has any else on here been contacted by asus. I guy emailed me said seen a post on here on my tab and wanted some pics. Happen to any1 else.
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Anyone else in the same boat? Have you gotten the email from the escalation team yet? If so, how long did it take for them to contact you?
I am still waiting for the email the rep on the phone told me about last night. I explained that my speaker is too low compared to my GFs N7 and he mentioned a lot of people were complaining about this with the 16GB versions (go figure). He said that they'll ship me a new one and will send packaging labels to return this one. He said I should expect an email from Google some time this week and after that they'll send me the replacement with 1-day shipping. Is this accurate?
At least I can play around with the N7 for the time being. However, it's quite annoying knowing ill have to redo all my setup again. Só many apps, layout changes, settings changes, etc.
Oh well...
PS - Today at work I compared the screens between my 16GB and my coworkers 8GB and his was noticeably brighter when maxed out. Weird and sad that there is another thing I need to worry about now. I guess I expected these QC issues from Asus as an original Transformer owner.
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I contacted them on Tuesday sadly only a few hours after getting my N7. My speaker is defective as well, and like you said when I brought it up they mentioned its been coming up lately. Same deal, told me they would ship out a new one for me within 24hrs however they didn't mention anything about 1 day shipping. That would be great.
Just under 24hrs later last night I received two emails back including the return shipping label info and another with a link to a custom play store checkout with my 16gb replacement. I put in my order via the link they gave me but I was greeted with an error on the next page, however I promptly received an email confirming my order so I guess it went through anyways.
All that's left now is waiting to see when it ships..
I hope it's soon.
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I was wondering if my 16GB version suffered from low volume levels. I'm still on the fence about it. That would be the only possible defect my device has.
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I contacted them on Tuesday sadly only a few hours after getting my N7. My speaker is defective as well, and like you said when I brought it up they mentioned its been coming up lately. Same deal, told me they would ship out a new one for me within 24hrs however they didn't mention anything about 1 day shipping. That would be great.
Just under 24hrs later last night I received two emails back including the return shipping label info and another with a link to a custom play store checkout with my 16gb replacement. I put in my order via the link they gave me but I was greeted with an error on the next page, however I promptly received an email confirming my order so I guess it went through anyways.
All that's left now is waiting to see when it ships..
I hope it's soon.
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So you already got an email from them regarding the exchange? I still haven't gotten any response since I talked to the rep on Tues night.
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called yesterday received email from rep yesterday saying it will be escalated to a specialist still waiting hope this ain't BS
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I haven't gotten a response either and i contacted them yesterday morning.
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I called Tuesday night (and I emailed them Tuesday afternoon). My Nexus 7 arrived with a cracked screen.
I just received the email from google. They sent me a RMA and a prepaid shipping label. There's also a link to have them send me a replacement unit.
The link takes me to my google wallet account, with a new 16 GB in the cart. They don't charge shipping or tax, but put a hold for $249 on your credit card. I have 21 days to return the defective Nexus 7.
I'm a little worried that I am basically buying a new Nexus 7, and not getting priority over someone who ordered today. If I have to wait 3-4 weeks, I will feel like google mislead me about this Nexus 7 replacement process.
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I called Tuesday night (and I emailed them Tuesday afternoon). My Nexus 7 arrived with a cracked screen.
I just received the email from google. They sent me a RMA and a prepaid shipping label. There's also a link to have them send me a replacement unit.
The link takes me to my google wallet account, with a new 16 GB in the cart. They don't charge shipping or tax, but put a hold for $249 on your credit card. I have 21 days to return the defective Nexus 7.
I'm a little worried that I am basically buying a new Nexus 7, and not getting priority over someone who ordered today. If I have to wait 3-4 weeks, I will feel like google mislead me about this Nexus 7 replacement process.
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Same thing through office Depot. They do next day shipping though but they do that ludicrous credit card hold. Probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard of and makes me not want to order online anymore. Walking into a store you don't pay shipping nor get a hold on your card. Very very inconvenient.
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Shaquiel Harris said:
Same thing through office Depot. They do next day shipping though but they do that ludicrous credit card hold. Probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard of and makes me not want to order online anymore. Walking into a store you don't pay shipping nor get a hold on your card. Very very inconvenient.
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My issue is that there are many other online vendors that handle things fine... mainly Amazon.com. How google is handling this issue is terrible. "oh man, phones are getting flooded, TAKE DOWN THE SUPPORT NUMBER FROM OUR WEBSITE"
I have said this in other threads.... This is the last time I ever buy a device straight from google. Hardware issues can't be their fault 100%, stuff happens... It's how they are handling the problems that is frustrating.
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I called Tuesday night (and I emailed them Tuesday afternoon). My Nexus 7 arrived with a cracked screen.
I just received the email from google. They sent me a RMA and a prepaid shipping label. There's also a link to have them send me a replacement unit.
The link takes me to my google wallet account, with a new 16 GB in the cart. They don't charge shipping or tax, but put a hold for $249 on your credit card. I have 21 days to return the defective Nexus 7.
I'm a little worried that I am basically buying a new Nexus 7, and not getting priority over someone who ordered today. If I have to wait 3-4 weeks, I will feel like google mislead me about this Nexus 7 replacement process.
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Same thing with Office depot. You basically buy another one then you send the old one back then they refund. Dumbest thing ever.
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Called this morning, got the initial email shortly after, and now await further instruction.
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rocchioo said:
I just received the email from google. They sent me a RMA and a prepaid shipping label. There's also a link to have them send me a replacement unit.
The link takes me to my google wallet account, with a new 16 GB in the cart. They don't charge shipping or tax, but put a hold for $249 on your credit card. I have 21 days to return the defective Nexus 7.
I'm a little worried that I am basically buying a new Nexus 7, and not getting priority over someone who ordered today. If I have to wait 3-4 weeks, I will feel like google mislead me about this Nexus 7 replacement process.
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This is what they told me that would happen. I'm still waiting for the RMA email but at least they are sending them out.
Bad news if you're technically buying a new one at zero price. Here in the UK, they've said that pre orders from June 30th are shipping next week, so I'm looking at a week Monday shipment at the earliest. Over a month since the initial order!
On a related note, just how low is this "low speaker volume" problem? I'd say mine isn't the loudest tablet ever, and now I'm wondering if it's possible to get one with louder volume. I have a tiny bit of screen separation and was going to keep mine (everything else is fine, and my screen's just the tiniest bit higher on the left than the right). However, if the volume is lower than it should be...
Also, anybody notice headphone volume also isn't very loud? Just loud enough to be acceptable, but not loud enough to be too loud. I'm used to devices starting to get too loud at about 75%.
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So you already got an email from them regarding the exchange? I still haven't gotten any response since I talked to the rep on Tues night.
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I did receive all the emails in regards to the exchange, I'm just waiting on any sort of shipping notice. The only thing that bothers me is I checked my card and I have 3 pending charges from the play store in the amount of the tablet. Not just one, I know I won't be charged if I return the defective unit in 21 days but why 3 charges?
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http://www.amazon.com/T-Flash-Adapt...TF8&qid=1344186320&sr=1-1&keywords=sanoxy+otg
i don't need one but got it just in case, works out to be cheaper than those 5-10 pack sellers on ebay
in for 1. don't really need it at this point but for 58 cents why not. thanks op.
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http://www.amazon.com/T-Flash-Adapt...TF8&qid=1344186320&sr=1-1&keywords=sanoxy+otg
i don't need one but got it just in case, works out to be cheaper than those 5-10 pack sellers on ebay
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Just one note for those who order from a Hong Kong shipper, it may take 10 days or more for the package to be delivered. When I ordered this same OTG cable on July 26th (it was $1.13 at the time), it supposedly shipped on the 27th but the shipment confirmation email stated the following: Delivery Estimate: Tuesday August 21, 2012 - Friday September 7, 2012.
If you click on "New" link you may be able to find shippers in your own country that may be able to deliver it faster, all be it probably for a little more money.
Edit to add: A second USB-OTG cable (SANOXY USB 2.0 Female to Micro USB Male OTG(On-The-Go) Cable Adapter for Samsung Galaxy s2 i9100) that I ordered on July 26th also indicated the same estimated delivery date of August 21, 2012 to September 7. That cable is now $0.81, when I ordered it the price was $1.31. This order did come with a USPS tracking number which currently shows the package was last scanned (departure scan) in Jamaica NY yesterday afternoon. The package tracking showed an initial departure scan on July 28th from Shenzen China.
I ordered one of those on July 21st... still no show. Hong Kong via Boat I think.
Ordered two at $0.58 last night but they stated at confirmation of order an estimated delivery of August 29th through September 17th. So who knows haha. Free shipping it's bound to take awhile from the other side of the world.
I order 2 on august 23 @ 0.94 each. Can't believe the price with free shipping :good:
Awww man... I just purchased one the other day for 83 cents w/ free shipping. What a ripoff... ;p
just ordered one for $0.53 w/ free shipping. ETA end of the month/september lol.
seems like they are shipping this from the moon, 1 month transit time are you serious!? lol
Just picked up one even though I already have one, you can't really beat the price
I dont really care about shipping since I already have one.
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seems like they are shipping this from the moon, 1 month transit time are you serious!? lol
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A lot of these Chinese sellers quote 1 month so you don't complain when you don't get it in a few days
Usually I get my deliveries under 2 week from these Chinese sellers and I am in NYC
Already have 4 of the small ones, but this angled connector cable looks good, at this price, shoot why not..
Thanks,
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A lot of these Chinese sellers quote 1 month so you don't complain when you don't get it in a few days
Usually I get my deliveries under 2 week from these Chinese sellers and I am in NYC
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It appears others have gotten their cables when ordered from China in about 10 to 12 days. The order with a tracking number that I mentioned in my post on page one of this thread currently shows it was scanned into a USPS location in my town this morning, yet the Amazon tracking page shows an estimated delivery of September 7th. :laugh:
My second USB-OTG cable did arrive, however the first cable (same as the OP's link) has not arrived yet, both were ordered at the same time, and shipped on the same day (or so the Amazon email claims). The cable that I did receive is shorter than the one pictured by Amazon, see pictures attached. I've posted my experiences with this cable and various USB devices to the External Storage Device Compatibility Review thread.
For what it's worth the one I ordered from said its shipped but didn't have a tracking
Since it is so cheap I don't mind, hope it wont take too long for it to arrive
I bought one of those OTG adapters from Amazon, I paid $0.98 which includes shipping... just got it, took about 3-4 weeks to get here... but I can't believe I overpaid by 33 cents! what a rip off!
I ordered when it was about $1. Took 10 days to get to CA from Hong Kong. Works like a charm. Added USB storage is fantastic!
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i went back to order a bunch to gave to friends, looks like it is 64 cents each now
Got mine about 10 days after I ordered
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I just ordered one for .99. dang, I will send it back and buy 1 for .58 lol