I would be careful when purchasing MP3, MP4 players from China. I purchased one and it worked for 2 days. The AC charger prong broke off. The support disc would not uninstall off my computer. The MP3 player itself froze and displayed an hour glass icon. My advice is save your money and by a known brand device like IPOD, Zune, Sansa, etc. I am taking the loss on this one. I made the mistake of purchasing a second from the same vendor. This was prior to the first device "crash and burning". Anyone else have similar experiences.
I had the same problem. It's been a bummer. I'm pretty sure we probably bought from the same person. Because it sounds identical. I am no longer buying anything that isn't authorized. Anyways. sorry to hear it happened to someone else.
I just bought a nice looking brand new MP3 player for 1 penny (shipping was 29.00). It would not hold a charge from the get-go. Its not worth my time to look into this and will take it as a loss. Next time I will buy one from the local Dept. Store and keep a receipt to take back if there are problems.
What really gets me is that the seller does not even have the common courtesty to leave me positive feedback as I went thru the motions of paying them for an item that did not even work.
I agree with all of the posts so far. The inexpensive Chinese players are horrible. I paid $1.00 plus $35.00 S&H from Hong Kong. Has anyone else noticed the hissing sound as soon as the MP3 player is activated? The sound quality is much, much worse than expected. The including ear buds are inferior, so I bought $20.00 Phillips ear buds as a replacement. Still terrible quality. The sound hiss is built into the player, likely from electrical interference with the battery. Worthless instruction manual, useless included driver and firmware CD, hit and miss displaying of pictures, videos, and even MP3s. I have not figured out how to format JPGs to actually show up on the screen, all I get (so far) is "Format Error". I can make GIFs display, but the quality sucks, so it's a useless picture viewer (so far). If the MP3 bitrate is low (such as ebooks), forget it, they likely will not play. Shows a battery life indicator, but there is no way to determine what it is actually trying to tell you. Accessing files through the player is very hard to do, due to its inferior operating firmware. I bought the MP4 8GB MP3 player primarily as a USB flash drive for transferring files from one computer to another, it does that just fine since it is plug and play and shows up on all computers as "Removable Disk". Do yourself a favor and spend the extra money to get a decent player. I too will eat the cost of my Chinese knockoff and get a Zune or i-touch. I can't give a auction number because the seller I used is no longer a registered user, so I couldn't even give feedback. I would have had to leave a positive because after all, I got EXACTLY what I paid for.
I really wished I would have read this a week ago. I too got a GREAT deal on this Mp3/Mp4/fm radio and blah blah blah. It was shipped from Hong Kong. I cant get it to do anything other than play ythe radio and then it fades in and out if I breathe to hard. I am eating the $30.00 LOSS. oh well I guess I too am saving for a nice one. You get what you pay for. I just wish there was a way to get the word around about these people. I too leeft positive efeedback because I didnt want to prolong it anylonger.
I also bought a 2gb mp4 back in April 2008 which was shipped from China. The device is garbage. Songs are lost, the USB cord snapped apart, poor sound quality, the "wheel" does not turn, etc. The owners manual is a joke. It's written in broken English. THEN the manual tells you to go to their website but doesn't tell you WHAT the website's name IS. When I tried to contact the vendor, no reply. I paid $.01 for and $30 shipping......I guess I got what I paid for.
I just recently purchased three of them for a cheap price from Hong Kong. $11.00 a piece with free shipping and they won't do anything. The computer doesn't recognize it and can't load anything to it and I get no positive responses when I try to contact the person
These type of MP4 players are hacked! After I reformatted the unit with the included disk Low level utility, I found it was only 2GB!!!!!!! Don't be fooled! They DO NOT make these in 8GB!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WISH I WOULD HAVE THE REPLIES BEFORE PURCHASING....I BOUGHT ONE AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR MY 10YR OLD SON....SO I GOT IT AND WRAPPED IT AS A PRESENT WITHOUT SEEING IF IT WORKED FIRST.....EVERYTHING IS OK BUT IT WONT SHOW VIDEOS....I GET A FORMAT ERROR WARNING.....EVEN WITH AVI FILES.....THIS IS JOKE....I WILL TAKE THE LOSS....SON IS ONLY 10....HE'LL GET OVER IT.........
DO NOT BUY CHEAP MP4 PLAYERS FROM HONG KONG, mainland China, or where ever they are from.
Make this the x# post of "I wish I read this ...months ago"
As of this post, there are maybe a half-dozed to a dozen product postings of this same player -different sellers.
caveat emptor
It's funny, because the seller seemed very response on me getting the product. I paid around $30 for it (.99 + "shipping), and really, an mp3 player of any quality cannot be obtained for that price. No?
I copied a folder of mp3 files from my laptop, and the player seemed work ok. I later copied other folders and went through a couple of iterations of trying to have the player find them.
i bought one 8 months ago works great! the second one is as you describe..it may be a hit or miss thing. the good one gets used all the time and i paired it with sony pro dj headphones-the sound is great! second one lasted 2 months-then froze. i expect we will see more models with more features that we want. also i have a creative zen it also freezes up! but the reset button takes care of that- and sound is no better than the cheap one!
Yep! I agree with all the people who have problem here. I too have been a victim too, and to think that I come from asia myself (OMG this is a shame!) I buy 2 from different seller but both have same problem. I should just have trusted my husband and buy a little bit more expensive but trusted one here in Norway. On top of it if there's something wrong it's easier to go back and complain. I don't need to sit anxiously, if the seller will respond or not. Just a little advice: Think many times before you buy.
Hello All, I have been bidding on these chinese MP3 players for a while and won an item called 32GB Touch Screen MP3 Video Player yday. I have requested some details from seller before i make the payment and then stumbled upon this post. Have anyone bought this item and how have they been? I don't want to lose 20£ on this if it's not going to work? Thanks for your help.
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