Teardown of Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max (A3365)

Re:Teardown of Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max ... by Reason077 on Sunday September 21, 2025 @08:38PM (#45328003)

AliExpress offers lower (subsidised) prices for first-time customers. So you often see very low prices when casually browsing, but when you log in with an existing account, the price goes up. When shipping to my country they also don't add sales tax / VAT until the final confirmation page, which is illegal.

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Re:Teardown of Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max ... by seec on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:44AM (#45335047)

Yep. AliExpress things, it is rarely as much of a good deal as it first appears. I have been burned many times. For things that you don't care about or don't need to rely on it's fine but there is too much fuckery going on to trust it for anything of importance.

That being said, Amazon isn't much better nowadays and I have been pleasantly surprised by some items from AliExpress. However one should not expect western quality standard for most things...

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Re:Teardown of Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max ... by londons_explore on Monday September 22, 2025 @01:22PM (#45336621)

Oddly I find the reverse. They apply random coupons only at the final checkout stage and I often end up paying only half for the items I'm buying, especially if I order many items.

I seem to get the 'delayed delivery' coupon every time even if the delivery is on time for example, and sometimes that coupon is worth more than the item itself for low value items.

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Re:Teardown of Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max ... by seec on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @01:37PM (#45350306)

I haven't made any purchase recently so maybe that's their way to subsidize the cost of various laws put in place in the EU recently (tax and shipping). But maybe it's also because you buy from the US?

It doesn't matter much anyway; I stopped buying there because I am a bit tired of too random quality that doesn't make the "savings" really worth it. For example, I bought a connected outlet that was half the price of ones from an EU brand but the app is pretty bad (data logging and display is terrible) and build quality worse. I also bought various RCA cable for an old amplifier and all of them were producing noise, I got a good one from Amazon (made in Germany) and no problem.

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