Xtar VP4 Dragon from Aliexpress?

Hi guys,

Does anyone know how legitimate the Xtar chargers are from Aliexpress? I am after the Xtar VP4 Dragon, and the usual sellers (Gearbest/Banggood) have it way more expensive than Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20180604143344&SearchText=vp4+dragon

I can get it for 60USD from Aliexpress. Just concerned it may be a fake…

Any thoughts?

It is probably legitimate. To make fakes worth doing, you either need to sell a lot of them, or sell them at high margins. I doubt the market for the Dragon is large enough to justify the investment to make a fake, and at $60 a copy, you’d probably have to sell a lot of them to make any money even if you could get the cost down with a fake. The other issue is that $60 is a good price, but there are several sellers on Ebay® offering it with free shipping for $59.99, so the $60 price is simply not any lower, and remember on Ebay the seller is paying 10% to Ebay and about 3% for PayPal®. I have seen a number of ‘deals’ on Aliexpress where the product could be purchased on Ebay for substantially less, and given that Ebay is no longer a particularly low cost place to do business. In other words there are lots of things on Aliexpress that aren’t the bargain Aliexpress would like you to think they are. I suspect if you looked very hard, you might well be able to find a price that is a few dollars lower. You can sometimes find a seller who is getting out of the market segment, and liquidating inventory. I found a Nitecore SC4 that way for $30 a few months ago.