Fake Charger

[Simon G]

Does anyone have good photos of the box these came in?

 

[Mitz]

weird ..... to me that all looks genuine inside ...nitecore branded pcb, parts etc.

I wonder if he bought these cheap with USA/Foreign mains leads and then bought a load of very cheap 'UK style' cables to package with them?

Then why do they fail authenticity checks?



By the sounds of it Josh old son, you belong in jail.

 

[Superaereo]

Does anyone have good photos of the box these came in?

https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/forums/posts/1605124/

 

[haich]

The plot yet thickens...

For the sake of customer security, I'm not going throw names out here but i believe all of this to be both relevant, and likely useful for the future.

I've been contacted by "others" over the course of this morning. Two in particular has sent me pictures of a counterfeit charger claimed to have been bought from Next Day Batteries. They've also included a picture of the paypal receipt which interestingly displays the name "M & T Partners Ltd" as the recipient of the payment.

Looking at the website, mtpartnership .co.uk, it bears a striking resemblance to that of NDB. In fact, looking into the source code for the website, they're identical selling the same products. The source code on the page shows it was almost certainly built by the same person/company with only changes being made for branding.
Further to the above, the bottom of the website displays the name "The Complete Startup", a company/business with which the owner is NDB is/was affiliated with.
Looking up the details of M & T Partners, the owner/director of this business has an affiliation with "GeoTee Apparel".
The owner of NDB had himself listed as a Director of GeoTee until very recently when GeoTee popped up on Facebook to denounce it and said he was merely going to be an investor, and for various reasons this was no longer the case and had requested it was removed from his profile in order not to be caught up in this.

Make of it what you will, but there is clearly more to this than initially thought and someone is far from coming clean...

Strange that a battery/charger supplier has not got 1 charger in stock.....
maybe more fake products?

 

[greenbrucelee]

The plot yet thickens...

For the sake of customer security, I'm not going throw names out here but i believe all of this to be both relevant, and likely useful for the future.

I've been contacted by "others" over the course of this morning. Two in particular has sent me pictures of a counterfeit charger claimed to have been bought from Next Day Batteries. They've also included a picture of the paypal receipt which interestingly displays the name "M & T Partners Ltd" as the recipient of the payment.

Looking at the website, mtpartnership .co.uk, it bears a striking resemblance to that of NDB. In fact, looking into the source code for the website, they're identical selling the same products. The source code on the page shows it was almost certainly built by the same person/company with only changes being made for branding.
Further to the above, the bottom of the website displays the name "The Complete Startup", a company/business with which the owner is NDB is/was affiliated with.
Looking up the details of M & T Partners, the owner/director of this business has an affiliation with "GeoTee Apparel".
The owner of NDB had himself listed as a Director of GeoTee until very recently when GeoTee popped up on Facebook to denounce it and said he was merely going to be an investor, and for various reasons this was no longer the case and had requested it was removed from his profile in order not to be caught up in this.

Make of it what you will, but there is clearly more to this than initially thought and someone is far from coming clean...

Good digging. Me thinks someone needs to contact trading standards

 

[Simon G]

Then why do they fail authenticity checks?

because the boxes are fake too?

I dunno, they aren't right that's for sure.

 

[eyeball kid]

TBH, I haven't got time to waste on somebody else's lack of responsibility: I will get a new charger from elsewhere at the first occasion and warn all my vaping mates about this.

24 hours later, still no answer to my email...

Do us a favour bud.As you've been effected personally by this can you put a brief outline in the negative vendor feedback section.
It concerns me that the casual visitor will go straight their to check a vendor and not see this thread. I'd hate someone else to end up with one.
https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/forums/product-reviews/vendor-seller-mod-maker-reviews/

 

[Mitz]

because the boxes are fake too?

I dunno, they aren't right that's for sure.

The guy is as straight as a roundabout. Everything seems very shady. I wouldn't trust a single word out of his mouth any more. Hope Trading Standards or even the Old Bill look in to his shady practices.

 

[Simon G]

I guess what I was thinking @Mitz considering what a dodgy dealer this guy seems to be ..... buy fake new boxes, cheap UK mains cables and package them with genuine chargers that were 'reconditioned returns' or something shady like that.

I've never seen a fake with nitecore branded parts, sockets, PCB etc, not to say it's not fake, because Chinese cloners are getting damn good,

 

[Mitz]

I guess what I was thinking @Mitz considering what a dodgy dealer this guy seems to be ..... buy fake new boxes, cheap UK mains cables and package them with genuine chargers that were 'reconditioned returns' or something shady like that.

I've never seen a fake with nitecore branded parts, sockets, PCB etc, not to say it's not fake, because Chinese cloners are getting damn good,

One of these chargers should be sent to Nitecore for feedback.