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be careful with HongKong Sonyericsson hbh-ds970 |
alkoholiczka
Joined: Feb 13, 2007
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hmmm i think pictures won't be needed as it looks same as the fake one.
anyway, i was just playing music, when something happend ....
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here it is, my 'brand new'  ds970:
lcd frozen, buttons don't respond, i can't switch it off, i can't do anything with it now, only wait 4 battery 2 die.
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barrowfordred
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
Posts: 162
From: Lancashire
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My headset, bought from a UK seller, seemed OK when I bought it. So I left positive feedback, silly really because I'd not actually used it.
Now I've tried to use I'm beginning to think it's a fake.
I either have to re-pair or turn the phone off and on the get the music to transfer.
The only time I tried an incomming call with the headset playing it froze (and still is frozen) and I can't switch it off.
I've looked at the pictures and to be honest the diferences aren't really that obvious on my headset. The giveaway appears to me to be the storage case. The real ones have symbols and date indicators moulded into them. The fake one (in the picture) doesn't - mine doesn't  (
I've e-mailed the seller and pointed out that the headset may be a fake. As yet I haven't had a reply. I'll wait a little longer and then post a follow up feedback comment and then contact E-Bay & PayPal.
Not sure how to go about making certain that the headset is fake, other than taking it to a Sony Ericcson service centre, and I don't know where the nearest one is.
p.s. this is the one I bought - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBay[....]m=&item=300074738662&rd=1&rd=1
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marcellos
Joined: Feb 04, 2003
Posts: 28
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As far as I could observe, the fake ones come with only ONE pair of extra rubber earbuds. The originals come with 2. |
barrowfordred
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
Posts: 162
From: Lancashire
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On 2007-02-15 16:27:11, marcellos wrote:
As far as I could observe, the fake ones come with only ONE pair of extra rubber earbuds. The originals come with 2.
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Mine came with 2 extra pairs ????????
Still doesn't work though. |
marcellos
Joined: Feb 04, 2003
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It's quite possible that some of the fakes also come with 2... |
barrowfordred
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
Posts: 162
From: Lancashire
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I've reset mine and tried an incomming call again. Pressing the call button has no effect. Tried again and headset locked up.
My M600i phone is Orange branded. Shouldn't be an issue, but................
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nitro993
Joined: Feb 15, 2007
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I recieved one from seller "ioak"...It is 100% genuine...Bass is excellent....Functionality is perfect (had for 4 days now and have been using it almost every minute of the day) .....Took a little time to recieve in the mail(a little over a month) - but the seller did resend priority post and took 6 days to recieve as promised....
If you're going to order from ebay AND from Hong Kong....I recommend him to ensure you are getting 100% genuine....
My feedback is provide on ebay to him aswell...
Cheers and thanks for the heads up on the other sellers...You guys saved me a headache....
nitro993
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alkoholiczka
Joined: Feb 13, 2007
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barrowfordred,
i checked this link where u bought your headset from and i can tell u only one thing for sure: charger is from china.
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>500
Joined: Jan 24, 2006
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@nitro993
i too got mine from Ioak. I got 2 actually. Both great. Although my brothers battery wastes quite fast, thats because he uses it frequently though 
mine only took 6 or so days to get to me, sorry bout your 1 month wait 
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tonchy
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 188
From: Bolivia
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hello
it is really sad that my first post had to be in this thread, i usually only read the threads and learn from them. The thing is i bougth myself a headset a couple of weeks ago but haven't received it yet. anyways i think it is a fake coz i got it from mlaccessories and someone else mentioned they got a fake from the same seller
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150083249068
However i wanted some of the experts to confirm an assumption i am making. i believe the REAL package comes with the LCD on the left of the earbuds where as the FAKE package has the LCD on the right of the earbuds again i am not 100% sure about this coz i don't have one yet(neither real nor fake) but i am posting some pictures from the supposed good seller ioak(TOP PICTURE) and from my presumed fake seller mlaccessories(BOTTON PICTURE) 
pls confirm.... coz i am not so sure if the actual plastic cover can move around either way, again coz i don't have my fake yet hehehe yip it is better to laugh than to cry i guess i will leave bad comments and follow your recomendations on not buying any accessories from HK (sad since i lived ther for 2 years, andi love it)
cheers and thank u all
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tonchy
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 188
From: Bolivia
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also
i'll let you know when i get mine how it looks like and will try to post some more pictures
good luck to those on disputes
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barrowfordred
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
Posts: 162
From: Lancashire
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On 2007-02-15 22:44:23, alkoholiczka wrote:
barrowfordred,
i checked this link where u bought your headset from and i can tell u only one thing for sure: charger is from china.
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Also, I should have done this earlier, if you check his feedback he bought a HBH-DS970 from Hong Kong a few weeks earlier
I think though that all the headsets are made in China anyway.
I've now filed a dispute with PayPal. I expect bugger all back, but who knows.
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marcellos
Joined: Feb 04, 2003
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Photo of 2 pairs of extra rubber earbuds from the original added to the site.
http://213.19.178.16/se
But as discussed before, it seems that some of the fake ones might also come with 2. |
nabboR
Joined: Dec 03, 2006
Posts: 62
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For those of you having fake/faulty HS, the only way to get them online after it freezed/crasched is to charge it, then it seems to wake up again.
The freezing on incoming calls seems to be the thing that should alert it is a fake.
A week back I sent my second faulty HS back, this time I'm supposed to get a refund. I didn't think about it at the time and now I can't do it, but it came into my mind after buying fake batteri, it may be diff. weigts between ori and fake as it was with the battery story.
So if you have two HS and suspect one is a fake and you have a didi-scale try to messure their weight.
It was 20% diff between the battery 15g fake, 18g. ori. it may be some diff on the HS too.
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tonchy
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 188
From: Bolivia
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On 2007-02-16 11:35:19, marcellos wrote:
Photo of 2 pairs of extra rubber earbuds from the original added to the site.
http://213.19.178.16/se
But as discussed before, it seems that some of the fake ones might also come with 2.
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as u can see from my sellers page he sells it with 2 extra pairs of earbuds, so fakes do come with that too... can anyone confirm on the package issue? pls
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150083249068 |
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Posted: 2007-02-15 01:05
