Sellers of chinese tablets

[Henrik Nordström]

mån 2012-04-09 klockan 21:50 +0200 skrev Till Harbaum / Lists:
> Am Montag 09 April 2012 schrieb Ian Stirling:
> > The makers never (?) sell on ebay.
> We don't know

There is some, and you do know when you see one. But most would not
dream of selling on ebay directly. It's different worlds, manufacturing
and end-user sales.

> > You are dealing with a small Chinese business that's bought a hundred or 
> > a thousand tablets.
> We also don't know that.

That is usually easy to identify.

> > They will have limited ability for any redress with the maker, beyond if 
> > they are lucky returning actually faulty hardware for warranty replacement.
> You also guess here, don't you?

No.

> > If the sales in china are large compared to the west, then all of these 
> > small firms going to the wall because of poor ebay feedback doesn't 
> > really concern the maker at all.
> That's possible, but also just an assumption i assume.

No.

> > They've already got their money - and the sellers were selling the 
> > competitors product too, anyway, so screw them.
> Why shouldn't the seller then just sue the vendor?

They are in no position to sue. Much less so than you are.

> > The court systems generally work, and in some cases the volumes will be 
> > enormously higher than the thousand the ebay seller may be ordering, 
> > meaning they may have better leverage.
> Yes, that's a possibility.

It's a reality even. Done a couple of times.

> There's a connection from me to the chipset vendor and this unfortunately goes via
> the seller. You still wasn't able to convice me that the seller is not the one to address
> here. Your arguments just contain too much guesswork even though i understand them
> and agree that approaching the chinese seller might be futile as well. The point is: We don't
> know this.

That connection is very thin. You'll have better reach trying to call
the factory directky,

> I once gave a negative review for a device on amazon (i did this two times and no, it's not
> my hobby to give negative reviews. I actually up to now never did this on ebay). This was an imho
> objective review of a few unexpected limitations of the device in question. A few weeks later a
> different seller contacted me and asked if i could delete my review as the device has since been
> updated. He claimed my review basically destroyed his business with the device.  These reviews are
> a more powerful thing than one would expect. 

Yes, but not for the reasons you want to pull.

Regards
Henrik