
Originally Posted by
zackmills
Yeah, I agree. It is basically Chinese Ebay. If you aren't careful, you'll get screwed. If you don't have common sense (i.e. expecting a real authentic for $20), you'll be disappointed. Asia is well known to manufacturer a TON of fake stuff.
Kinda off topic, but it deals with buying stuff from Asia. A few months ago I bought a new "Genuine Microsoft Xbox Controller" for the original Xbox off Ebay. They are nearly impossible to find cheap brand new in the States. After shipping, it was something like $14. The seller was in China. I knew there was a decent chance the thing wouldn't be real. I got it, and it was obvisouly a cheap fake. The right analog stick was broken. I went through the Paypal resolution center. The problem with that is if you escalate the claim to Paypal to review and win, the buyer still has to pay for return shipping to ship it back to the seller. That is great if you bought it from something in the U.S. Shipping it back to China would have cost me something like $20 and obvisoulsly wouldn't be worth it. The guy ended up giving me a half refund. I learned my lesson.
That IMO is the main drawback from buying something from China. Going through things like Ebay and Paypal (I dunno if dhgate does) offer "some" coverage in case you get screwed, but if you have to end up shipping it back, you're going to lose out.
There was a guy on here last year that bought some jerseys off dhgate. I know one seller was "aircommando." He attested to the quality of the jersey. That is really the only way I would buy a jersey off of that site, or Ebay for that matter. I would have to have heard and seen good reviews from people I trusted.