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I've also had good luck with small bluetooth speakers, with LED/PIR closet lights, with landscape lighting, with RGB LED light bulbs, LED lighting kits, charging cables, and a bunch of other things, even including a network tracing/mapping tool (that one I was sweating a little bit as it was expensive).

It's literally better than 95% (probably more like 99%) good stuff and I'm willing to eat the small amount of slippage/breakage/fraud/poor design.



I saw how they make LED bulbs on-site, on the Shenzhen markets, and thus I'm not particularly confident in them. Related, the company my SO works in sells LED bulbs imported from China (among other things). I bought a bunch of them, and had them burn out on me one by one, with an average life time of a bulb around 1 week (one or two were broken already, a few burned out within first 2 days, rest worked for few months).

In a parallel comment I described my negative experience with USB cables, which I tested on-site to find some that actually work for charging a cell phone. I also sourced USB chargers from China and have two burn out on me. Random Bluetooth headset from Aliexpress managed to completely mess up Android on my phone (how that was possible is beyond me, but I guess crappy Bluetooth 2.x firmware).

So, anecdata to anecdata, I don't share your confidence in any kind of electronic products. I stick to sourcing components now.




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