First post on BLF… I’m Ben, living in the south of France, not far away from Spain. I like knives, especially folding knives.
Since few weeks, some of us noticed many “budget” knives are disappearing from AE
I lauch this topic in order to list alternative online shops where we could find chinese knifes
Plz share your adresses !
HENGSHENG (owner by AE vendor John Li (HK)) http://www.sh0142-hk.com/
one transaction in progress (and one transaction on AE few weeks ago)
Paypal or Alipay accepted
Many clones and some Enlan
No free shipping
The Aliexpress store is now just a front. He no longer is selling any merchandise there. Instead, he seems to have opened this new store, Hengsheng, and he offers Aliexpress as one of the options for payment.
I suppose this is to provide some measure of buyer assurance to the customer.
I figure on saving over 50% when compared to the next lowest vendor, even after including shipping.
Now the long wait …
Note: The risk in this deal isn’t non-delivery. Such loss would be covered by Paypal or my AmEx credit card. The risk is that the product delivered is of woefully poor quality. I’m not sure how Paypal or AmEx would treat that situation, because the seller’s terms expressly states that they will reimburse a maximum of 20% of the purchase price in such an instance.
I’m wondering if - on the clone knife “market” - for a specificated clone knife, there can be several manufacturers or one manufacturer/factory that will make all the copies of a specificated knife ?
Took a gamble too. Ordered 3 all on the biggish side. Doubt they have the advertized steels, but I don't think the site is false advertising. Actually, the site seems refreshingly honest about the steels. I just think they have limited info on these. Would be very cool if they were actually as advertised.: