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No such thing as real housings to be purchased, from SE email. |
fatfree
Joined: Nov 28, 2005
Posts: 49
From: USA
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On 2005-12-30 14:23:39, TheGlassJAw wrote:
ive bought w800 cases from both fatmui and cnn.cn, they were all fakes, i even bought i second housing from cnn.cn thinking it could have just been a one off, the second and third (from fatmui) have all been worse than the first one.
i ordered one from mobilefun but i canceled it because they emailed me telling me it wasnt in stock after i ordered it. if anyone has recieved a case from them please let us know if it is a fake or not !!
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Did you return it to Fatmui, or emailed her? I returned mine, but waiting for her to respond. I'm hoping she didn't rip me a new asshole, because I'll be even more pissed off. | |
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Grimslade
Joined: Jul 25, 2004
Posts: 464
From: London
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I always used to wonder about the cheap goods in Hong Kong and China. The name-brand clothes, etc. Are they real? Knock-offs? What's the deal? When I was in Hong Kong, someone explained it to me.
(Disclaimer: what follows tells you nothing about any particular seller on ebay or anywhere else, but it might help you understand where OEM parts come from, even when  denies that they sell them...)
(Second disclaimer: The repair center on Place Stephanie in Brussels, Belgium has piles of replacement housings. They will replace them for you, but they'll also sell them at retail. It may be that they're not supposed to, but they do, and if they do, I'm sure others do it too...)
OK, so where do the knock-offs come from? It works like this: A factory in HK or China is paid by (or Ann Taylor, or Tommy Hilfiger) to produce X number of housings, shirts, whatever. They are given the plans and the specs, they tool up the factory and make 500,000 of them for their client.
But now they have a choice. They can break everything down and get ready for the next production run for Samsung, or whoever. Or, they can make a little money on the side. Since the cost of setting up to produce W800 housings was borne by , the factory can run off another 100,000, or 200K, or 500K of _exactly_ what they just made for for nothing more than the cost of the raw materials and sell those into the black or grey market.
Is the part (or shirt, or skirt) "genuine"? Well, it was made with (hopefully) the same material, on the same assembly line, by the same company that made the original. But it was made without authorization. It can be sold cheaply because is unwittingly subsidizing the production.
This doesn't mean that there aren't real fakes, if you'll pardon the expression, but it does explain how there can be "real" housings out there, and why they're so cheap.
Hope that helps... |
coo1k3n
Joined: May 04, 2003
Posts: 272
From: Northamptonshire, UK
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Hhhmmmm...
So surely if they're running off just 'extra' batches of say the 'W800i' housings wouldn't they just be exactly identical to say the first batch they were asked to make? Meaning they're mostly real, not fakes? 
So it's just the same but they're simply just making more than they're supposed too?
I wonder if Fatmui sells ones like these?
[ This Message was edited by: coo1k3n on 2005-12-30 17:21 ] |
Grimslade
Joined: Jul 25, 2004
Posts: 464
From: London
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@cool. Yes. That's my point. Of course, it's another question whether any particular housing fits that description. |
optiplex
Joined: Nov 23, 2005
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You could be true, however to reduce the cost even further, they might also be using cheaper material, if SE is no longer involved, then there is no one to control the quality.
So if what you say is true then that might explain the degraded quality in the clones/fakes or what ever you call them. |
chelseaboy
Joined: Dec 22, 2005
Posts: 6
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Just thought I'd say I got a K700i Housing off FATMUI on Ebay...Just as I was looking to have a black case instead of the silver one. I was at 1st very happy, but it all went downhill after 2 days!
1. I dropped my mobile onto the carpet, and the metal battery cover came unglued from the plastic part it was attached to! I re-glued with superglue and it was ok.
2. My plastic screen was 'wobbly'...and after me pressing it to see why there was movement the whole screen fell out!
3. Also I noticed the lettering isn't 'quite' the same as the original...
My advice is...if you wanna superglue your phone back together buy from this man or woman...Otherwise Save your money!
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Posted: 2005-12-30 17:41
