Taobao store: 白金宫殿 DO NOT BUY FROM THEM
I believe they are not the only one supplying fake NITECORE chargers. I am not surprised if they are been sold in eBay or Aliexpress as well.
Taobao store: 白金宫殿 DO NOT BUY FROM THEM
I believe they are not the only one supplying fake NITECORE chargers. I am not surprised if they are been sold in eBay or Aliexpress as well.
Thanks for the warning!
Still I am not buying any at all since Nitecore states copper yet no copper where they claim it and that makes even the genuine not as advertised. Bye bye nitecore for future buys for me.
I understand that you may be doing this on principal. With that said I don’t think it’s normal to use pure copper on sliders like that, regardless of what Nitecore states.
Sure and if they would just say “non magnetic metal” I would not have any issue with it
Fair enough.
I think the problem,as Wight points out, Nitecore are possibly not describing their products correctly and if you contact them to clarify, they don’t reply. So I understand The millers point.
My D2 is fake according to the magnet test, 240v input socket, verification number doesn’t exist and it won’t charge AAA eneloops without taking them to 1.59v. But when I emailed Nitecore, 3 times, I didn’t get one reply.
I now avoid Nitecore products.
I just received 8 Nitecore UM10 chargers ( for gifting ) and found the negative slide contact instantly grabs a magnet, while the positive contact does not. I have done some researching to learn if “all” Nitecore chargers use non-magnetic metals, without any success so far. I was going to contact Nitecore until reading a members post mentioning Nitecore did not reply to his correspondence, so I hope to save time and learn the answer here. If they are fake I of course need to contact the shipper right away,and also update you who the supplier is.
Thank you
I got a (really good) fake i4 from EdisonBright on amazon, but that was about 2 years ago so no refunds, and the packaging is long gone.
It fails the magnet test and there aren’t any nitecore caps.
Edit: 3/3/16, since I’m officially in the OP reporting a fake, I thought it would be a good idea to say that the purchase date from EdisonBright was 11/11/13. I believe this to be one of the earliest fakes to be reported.
Freeme,
Thanks for the illustrations!
Your post prompted me to check my charger. Fortunately, it passed all the visual and magnetic tests.
Here is a link to answer the magnet question for “all” Nitecore chargers.
http://charger.nitecore.com/identification-guide-nitecore-charger-users
I just received Fake UM10’s. What would be the best solution to resolve this, viewing it as a BLF member and satisfied Banggood customer? Is there a BLF member that is also with BG?
I took mine apart all of my parts are labeled with Nitecore on them but i did buy mine in 2014
My D4 has internal parts labelled Nitecore & my positive contacts are non magnetic (as Nitecore say they should be), however my negative contacts/rails are magnetic which Nitecore state shows a fake ?
My unit also passed its authentication code test so I believe it to be genuine even though my negative contacts/rails are the complete opposite of what Nitecore state they should be.
I do not think that their magnet test advice is 100% correct.
My D2 fails the magnet test, the verification test has a 240v figure 8 like freemes fake. And it HAS killed 6 AAA cells. 2 eneloop, 2 energiser, 1 Panasonic and a Recyko. In all cases it has taken them to 1.59 volts. The fist couple of times I did not realise what it had done until I saw 1.59v on screen.
We may not have seen anyone house burn down yet and it is unlikely but, if I pay for a real item I expect a real item otherwise people would not be complaining about fake Cree LEDs.
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Awww… you don’t need no pic’s to mock, you’re doin’ jes fine!
Please look at the icons (Right) that I have indicated again. Negative contact plates of an authentic charger do attract magnet. I have confirmed it with D4, D2, i4 and i2 so far.
Thank you. I see 3 points-of-contact. Only the positive is not magnetic on mine. Both negative points are magnetic.
What result did you get from the validation codes? I have not heard of any fake um series yet.
No code testing. Magnet is enough for me at this point. I’m having to spend more time with this than I really should be considering other life’s immediate needs. No disrespect meant and I appreciate your help. For some reason everything seems to hit at once when we are already too busy, so further checking doesn’t seem to be immediately required but I see your point. I can check a couple codes asap and post. Thanks again.