Ebay MP3's - help please

maccaz

Hi all
I was wondering if any of you could help me.
I want to buy and MP3 player for my son.

I've looked on ebay, too many to choose from.
Is buying one from Hong Kong wise? There are 2gb ones for £40ish, would be a good price, but do you get what you pay for?

Have any of you bought one of these? Or can you recommend a MP3 player that would be suitable.

Sorry for all the questions

SamMoffatt28

maccaz wrote:

Hi all
I was wondering if any of you could help me.
I want to buy and MP3 player for my son.

I've looked on ebay, too many to choose from.
Is buying one from Hong Kong wise? There are 2gb ones for £40ish, would be a good price, but do you get what you pay for?

Have any of you bought one of these? Or can you recommend a MP3 player that would be suitable.

Sorry for all the questions

Don't know about anyone else but I tend to avoid the hong kong ones because I always fear they may be 'dodgy'. Also you could be liable for import taxes and the postage costs are usually over priced too. I saw a guitar dh wanted which happened to be from hong kong and the guitar itself was only about £150 which is extremely cheap, but once you add on the £200 postage costs they were asking it would be cheaper to buy it in the uk. IMO I'd steer clear.

soolin

If you do buy from overseas then make sure you pay only by paypal funded by a credit card, as if it doesn't arrive you need a fall back position to make a claim.

Soo

shutton54321

i would avoid items from hong kong like the plague. Alot of the stuff sold is fake or along that lines!

ckerrd

Must admit have bought stuff from HK and it has been fine but it was all for a couple of quid.

Search this site for alternatives as I am sure there are a fair number of posts

Kilty_2

I bought an MP3 player from hong kong a while ago, for half UK retail price (inc postage, insurance etc)

Stores in the UK still sell the same players for around what I paid back then.

Had no trouble whatsoever with the seller and received the item after about 10 days (as quoted)

cafenervosa_2

At the end of the day all the electrical items that are in our shops have come from that part of the world anyway, china, japan etc.

Check the sellers feedback, if all looks ok and other buyers are happy chances are you will be looked after.

tazzababe

I got mine from HK (Ebay) last year, dead cheap and the same one over here was at a stupid price. Must admit that it took longer than expected to arrive, but I was totally happy with it

sprintstar

I've just bought one of the 2GB ones for just under £40 from Hong Kong and I'm not overly impressed to be honest. It certainly looks the part (just like an iPod Nano), but the screen has really cheap looking menus and is low resolution, and the charger that came with it is for HK plugs, not UK ones. I e-mailed the seller about this, but he just replied saying you can buy adapters cheaply, even though nothing was mentioned in the listing about that. Also it took around 3-4 weeks to arrive, and the slip case broke when I first fitted it. At the end of the day you get what you paid for, I can't complain too much as it was cheap, but next time I will just go for the real thing, as with this one I can't help wondering how long it will last before it breaks.

Just be very careful who you buy from by checking their feedback thoroughly (anything less than 98% positives and alarm bells should be ringing), there are a lot of sellers of these so there's plenty to choose from

maccaz

Thanks everyone.

Will keep looking over the next few weeks and hopefully will get something suitable.

sprintstar

In case it helps, you might want to avoid kgm-accessory, that's who I got mine from