Xbox 360 Accessories from China - Headsets, Rechargable Batteries etc

Xbox 360 Accessories from China

Hi Guys,

Something I bought a long time ago and have several left over I found in my garage are Xbox 360 headsets, the old style ones, which have the volume control and microphone activation at the end where the jack is and enters the controller. These were incredibly cheap to buy from Chinese suppliers and are great in case of a sudden microphone packing in, which happens a lot more than you might think. I am currently on my first Turtle Beach headset which is wired and it has lasted for 9 months with no problems but up until I got my Turtle Beach for my birthday, I had been using a single Chinese Xbox 360 headset for 5 months solid and it worked perfectly, even to this day, it is still going.

Some people may be put off the headsets because they are unbranded and don't have a name on the side of them. This means nothing really in the long run as lots of stuff, even luxury items, are made in the same factory as the cheaper items, all with just a different name or badge put onto the product, which in turn increases its value.

These headsets are very good and reliable for a cheap replacement if one of your main headsets pack it in. The speaker on them is not incredibly loud but is sufficient enough to hear and make people out without any problems at all. They seem a bit more solid the older designed headsets as some headsets, the newer ones, have a 90 degress angled jack that goes into the controller with a flimsy wire that goees to the headset. These are the ones that I have found break the easiest, especially if you take the wire in and out after each gaming session. As its quite flimsy, you can end up splitting or breaking the wires inside if you keep taking it in and out a lot. The headsets however with the more solid base at the end of the wire have lasted for up to 2 and a half years (the old Microsoft Ones).

The newer model headsets I have went through about 4 of them and got so annoyed with them I preferred to use the Chinese made one and then eventually the beast of all headsets the Turtle Beach which is still going strong. All I am saying is don't be afraid by unbranded Xbox or PS3, Wii etc as they are very good value for money and most of them are very reliable.

Buy one as a tester for around £2 delivered some work out as and see for yourself.

One other great accessory for the Xbox 360 from China is the various rechargeable bettery packs that you get which include a charging lead. They don't last as long per charge as some of the official Microsoft Battery packs, however they do last a few days before needing recharging and all depends on how you are using and what games you are playing etc.

Some batteries feel a bit plasticy and very light which can also be a good thing, yes they are cheap but they will do the job they have been made for safely, as I have not heard of any comiplaints or bad feedback about them. If your strapped for cash don't rob a bank to pay for your Xbox addiction, buy something cheaper from China and save yourself a lot of bucks :)

Check out some of the great deals on Amazon you can get on new and second hand turtle beach headsets which are definitely worth the money. The sound on them is outstanding and can give you the dge in multiplayer games as you know exactly by the sound which direction the next bad guy is coming from:

                                


Thanks.

Henry

Fake perfumes from China like Coco, Davidoff, Hugo Boss Etc

Hi guys,

I thought I would give some people a heads up on some items that look very very real, but don't necessarily SMELL very real when you open them. The Internet has no way of letting you smell an item of course until you have received it, however I think there is a gadget that lets you do this with certain things, but anyhoo if you are ordering any perfumes from China at crazy prices like $15-$25, you can be pretty sure it isn't real.

Common sense dictates a perfume isn't real if someone no one has heard of before offers it at way below what major retail outlets and chemists can offer it at. However some people will be tempted to purchase these items because of the huge discount a seller is offering, only to be disappointed by the lack of smell or doesn't smell anything like the original which they may have purchased PROPER versions from a genuine retail shop.

People usually can tell that a perfume is fake mainly just by smelling it or applying it and seeing how long the effects of the perfume actually last. Most genuine perfumes and aftershaves can last for up to 6 hours some even 8 before starting to dwindle on the scent, whereas a fake perfume will last maybe an hour or possibly two in some cases I have heard, but then just disappear and evaporate into sometimes a nasty musty smell.

This musty smell I heard of intrigued me into what might be in the fake perfumes to replicate the smell of the originals. I looked it up on youtube and found an interesting video below describing some ingredients that go into fake perfumes and nearly threw up as if I knew I had been putting things like traces of urine onto my skin which has come from god knows where, a person and animal, I would rather go au natural body odour than stick that stuff onto me I can tell you know.

Some tell tale signs of perfumes that are fake are told in the video but include: cellophane not tight on packaging, thin cardboard for the boxes used, bar codes in wrong places, some wrong fonts used for the title of the perfume etc.

Check out the video below and be wary when buying Chinese products as the supplier may not answer you or give you a refund. They sometimes get away in their descriptions by saying that it is the China version of the product and this means its not original. I say that is no way to describe a product and if someone sells a fake to you or you even suspect for a micro second something is fake, simply return it and keep hounding the supplier for your money back.

If its on Ebay or through Paypal, submit your case through them as they will probably have dealt with a similar situation with this supplier before and vote in your favour and return your money :D. Check out the vid but don't squirt any perfume or aftershave on till you know whats in it LOL

Buy from Amazon to get the real deal as only authorised companies are allowed to resell the expensive or licenced perfumes. Check out the ones below if any interested you, the only problem is the price :):



Thanks,

Henry

Chinese Epad / Ipad replica with Google Android OS

Hi guys,

One of the first items I remember purchasing from Aliexpress and was very wary of as it cost at the time about $88 and was one of th ebiggest purchases I had made on the site about 2 years ago. I thought a touchscreen tablet PC could not cost that much and felt in the back of my mind that the package would never arrive. However I was relieved when it did and was actually surprised at the amount of technology in such a slim and portable device, which was also provided at an amazing price.

There are many different Epad's available from Aliexpress and from China in general with minor deifferences, not visually, but mainly in the specification department in relation to how much RAM it has, processor speed and what Google Android OS it is using etc.

I remember when I got mine it came in a nice retail style packaged box with the charger, instruction manual (which was written in broken English and was not very easy to follow),travel adaptor and USB cable. I was very impressed and still am to this day about it, however I wish I had kept it as I sold it on Ebayabout a week later after recieving it. I paid about £58 for it and sold it on Ebay for £77. This wasn't a bad profit and I was mainly testing the market on Ebay for this type of tablet PC as the Ipad 1 was the main contender for tablet PC's at the time and thought this would never sell as its unbranded.

The touchscreen on the device was actually fairly accurate and responsive, however nothing as you know can beat a real keyboard than a virtual one. It has little niggles in it now and again when trying to type fast as it can sometimes struggle to keep up, but I also own an Ipod touch 4th Generation model and its touch keyboard is the same so I wouldn't bad mouth the Epad devices just for being not lightning fast as even the to of the range products with virtual keyboards cannot keep up with the speed some people type at.

There is a great range of applications available for the Epad's as they run all  Androids applications which there are literally hundreds of thousands of. One problem with Chinese Epads is that sometimes the version of the Google Marketplace does not work as it is the Chinese marketplace, and when it trys to connect to the internet via wi-fi or 3G, it does not recognise the local settings and so brings up an error. There are some remedies online which you can lookup to install the ENglush or USA version etc of the marketplace and some I have seen the methods have had a reasonable success rate from what I have read in forums and posts etc.

When I got my EPad, I wanted to use it in work mainly to play videos on and it does it very well from an SD card slot. It has an interface like a bookshelf which is on the Ipad 1, 2 and 3 which allows you to choose movies and ebooks, or songs as if they were sitting on a virtual bookshelf inside your tablet. The video playback on these items is actually pretty good as I watched and entire film before the battery started to go down on it which lasted about 2 hours long, and there was no issues with lagging of the picture or smoothness of the film, no out of sync sound and lips talking it was very cool. The screen isn't high definition however I See there are some models now which offer HD screens at a higher price of course. The screen which is standard on most of the Epads seem suitable and produce the lovely colours that the wallpapers which come with Google Android show off.

Lots of acessories can be bought for the Epad from Chinese suppliers which include leather cases, blue tooth keyboards and 3G modems to access the internet on the move. All Epads have Wi-fi built into them and they work very well in discovering new networks within range and connecting to them with ease.

I would not really use the tablet to replace a laptop as it can do a lot more than the tablet PC's however I would use it mainly for entertainment purposes, reading ebooks, watching films, listening to music, editing the occasional documents in office applications which can be downloaded for the EPad or sometimes come with free trial versions of them already installed on the unit.

Overall not a bad purchase and you could easily resell these to people as they are also great organisaitonal companions using the Google calender functions to help plan your day, meetings and so forth. I would recommend one if you had some spare cash about but don't expect it to run games which a laptop would run like World of Warcraft etc LOL it usually comes with Angry Birds, everyones fav game, and has lots of room to download more and keep you entertained.

Interested in purchasing the newer models? Check out the one I have recently bought below for a bargain. Its great for surfing the web, although can slow down now and again, but the screen and touch sensitivity are great on these models. Check them out:


                            


Thanks.

Henry

Iphone 5 Covers from China - Made in advance

Iphone 5 Covers from China - Made in advance

Hi guys,

I was wondering about new ways to make money online and was thinking if you can get the latest and quirkiest Iphone covers on the release of the new Iphone 5 perhaps later on at the end of this year, you could definitely clean up as sales of the device look like they are going to be out of this world!

You should stock up straight away as soon as the covers are released as many Chinese manufacturers of the covers have already been given the plans by several months ago so that they could start early in producing accessories for the Iphone 5.

Here is a photo of the latest Iphone from msn.co.uk and it does look like a real beauty. I will love to get my hands on it but knowing my luck it will be sold out for the next few weeks on release as I cannot stand the que's outside apple shops everytime there is a new product launched.

It can be fun and exciting sometimes getting the latest must have product. but seeing adults jumping up and down and running screaming out of the store because they got an Iphone or Ipad early etc really doesn't do it for me LOL.

Anyhoo if you specialise in mobile accessories online or have your own store, carboot etc you should get your foot in the door early and start earning while the hype is still fresh when its released as Iphone covers are cheap to buy but with a relatively high profit margin as well.

All the best guys just a quick thought.

Thanks for reading.

Henry.

1.8" LCD Wireless Car MP4 MP3 Player FM Transmitter

1.8" LCD Wireless Car MP4 MP3 Player FM Transmitter SD MMC USB - From China

I decided to try out these items from a Chinese supplier for the car to see if they were any cop. I read some good reviews about some FM car transmitters and some bad so I thought it was probably going to end in disappointment this order and didn't hold my breath.

When I recieved the transmitters though I was very very impressed! The quality of them is amazing and very sturdy as in the pictures I kind of thought they were going to be very light and have a cheap plastic feel to them, but they actually feel a very sturdy little gadget for a such a great price.

The interface is fairly basic and when you load your SD card into the transmitter, it organises them into folders which you can name yourself on the SD card, however if you turn it off and on midway through a song, you have to find the song again and press play from the start, as it will not remember like a car CD player , where a song has been stopped or paused before being turn off. Apart from that Small Little niggle, its a great device to buff up your tunes in the car and is very stylish too.

As soon as my mates seen it in my Peugeot 206 going to the cinema or out for drinks, the little screen fascinated them by what else it could do all lit up and looking very cool in my very crappy 206. They thought it was something from the future I had brought back but I couldn't get to the future as my 206 struggles to get up to 88 miles per hour.

The controls are very simple and basic as the buttons on the device are very intuitive and clearly tell you what they do with the symbols on them. One very cool features is that there is a remote control included with each unit. This is good if you are busy driving and cannot find a song you want, where you can pass control over to someone in the back to find the songs for you while you drive.

As everything is on an SD card your music, you can have tons of songs literally 100's on a tiny SD card without carrying around loads of CD's and chopping and changing them every two seconds.

You can get these on Ebay for like £7-£9 and its a very worthy investment if you keep lots of your tunes on an SD card. I suggest testing these items when you get them simply turn you car engine on, stick them to the cigarette lighter quickly to see it power up and see the welcome message. Some people I notice from suppliers feedback do say now and again out of maybe 20 they order maybe one when they plug it in is totally dead. Its a very small percentage but just incase you sell it to a customer and they get a bit angry with you selling broken stuff and they get a bit miffed off about it.

Below is the product specs from one suppliers website.

Thanks for reading.

Henry.

Product Description

This is a MP3 mp4 player special used in car, It can download MP3 formats file from the computer and save them by the SD/MMC/TF. it is used high quality mp3 decoder chip decode MP3 file from SD/MMC/TF memory to audio signal, and transmit them through FM modulator chips change to FM signal, play back the high quality music by the FM radio of car audio system.

BE YOUR OWN RADIO STATION! NOW TAKE THE MUSIC WITH YOU!

Features:

• 100% Brand New.
• Weight: 74g
• Size: 9.5 x 7.0 x 4 cm
• color: Black
• Display size: 1.8 inch
• Car mp4 player
• Support SD/MMC expansion card (1GB-8GB)(SD Card is not included)
• NO Memorizing function
• With SD card slot & USB cable port.
• Support MP3,WMA Audio format, Not Support WAV, MIDI format
• Support SCV Video format only, Not Support AVI, WMV, ASP, RMVB, 3GP, MOV, FLV, VOB, MPEG-2,MPEG-4(MP4 ) format
• Transmits the music to the car's audio system
• With multi-languages selected
• With infrared remote control.
• 7 EQ modes optional.
• Built-in stereo wireless FM transmitter, FM frequency range: 87.5MHz~108.0MHz. Total 206 frequencies optional.
• Play the music automatically when inserted to the 12V outlet.
• Shows FM frequency, the No. name and lyrics of the song. volume, EQ mode, player mode on the LCD Screen.
• Support 7 kinds of EQ music format: Nature, Rock & Roll, Pop, Jazz, Soft, DBB and Surround
• Rotatable in wide angles to adapt to different in-car setting
• Flexible joint for position adjustment.
• Power supply: 12V-24V.

Package Content:

• 1 x Car MP4 player with built-in FM transmitter
• 1 x USB cable
• 1 x Remote control

Smoothie Maker from China - As Seen On TV

Smoothie Maker - As Seen On TV from China - Available in White and Red

Worldwide Shipping now available I have got some for sale on Ebay.co.uk while stocks last:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150832258879?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

This is a great seller all year round as nearly everyone at some point in the year aims to loose weight and thinks of different ways to do it and diets to try. A lot of people like the idea of a smoothie as they are very tastey and can try out different recipies or make up their own with ingredients they have in the house.

The "Smoothie Maker" is an amazing little gadget that you used to see on a lot of late night shopping channels where the commercial had a presenter come on and show you all the things you can do with it like making ice cream, cooking sauces and great tasting smoothies. The thing though that makes this smoothier maker stand out a lot more than any other is the way in which it operates. Check out the commercial below thats on youtube to see it in action and you will think its an ingenious idea.

To make it work you put the ingredients in the large or small cup, depending on the size of smoothie you are wanting, and to activate the Smoothie Maker, the cup and top part of the unit rotate to a vertical position and turns on the blades. When you think it has had long enough to blend the ingredients together (It doesn't take more than about 10 seconds or less) you simply tilt it back down again and a safety switch knocks off the unit.

You can simply twist the cup the ingredients were in and the cup detaches from the unit which you can drink out of right away. There is a plastic lid that comes with the two cups which fits over the top and allows you to drink it like a coffee you get in a garage or takeaway cafe.

Another great safety feature is that to clean the blade of the Smoothie Maker, you do not need to touch the blades, as there is a small quarter sized cup that comes with it that you simply put water into, tilt it up and the blades clean themself in the water. You can see if you fill the large cup with water and turn on the machine that the blades create a unique column of water thats like a whirlpool in the centre, which helps suck all the ingredients down to the imulsifying disc down below which is amazing to watch.

I had bought two of these from a supplier in China and you get everything in the box the Smoothie Maker machine, 1 small cup, 1 large cup, a cleaning cup , one spill trayand the lid to place over the cups for instant drinking. One thing to remember is that ordering this item from China is that you will need a travel adaptor for the plug as its a 2 prong plug and not like in the UK a 3 prong. Travel plugs are cheap enough though to pick up on Ebay or at local supermarkets for like £2 or so.

I have seen the real deal package a friend of mine ordered off TV however the Chinese one does not come with the promised in full colour recipie book which was dissappointed with. There are tons of websites out there for free smoothie recipies you will find no shortage of ideas. It only comes with a black and white instruction booklet which offers some good safety advice I suggest you read first as usually smoothie makers, blenders, food processors (anything with fast moving blades) scares the crap out of me to use.

Just use common sense and you can be enjoying some great smoothies, soups, sauces or even ice creams (made using frozen fruit, very tasty) try it out for yourself.

Try some other models of smoothie makers with great reviews below:

                                    


Thanks for reading guys.

Henry