3DPrinting
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I learned the other day that anker just rebrands/white-labels alibaba level products.
This is super common in the 3D printer industry - Creality, Anycubic, and most "brands" are just slapping thier logos on the same OEM parts with minor tweeks.
There are many many companies doing this. But the smart brands will use their name as a sort of stamp of 'this is actually a decent product" because the market is absolutely chock full of e-waste.
yeah it's true, but anker has been having a lot of recalls lately. And when the product costs 1/5 the price on aliexpress/baba then it might be worth it for some things.
Sometimes the ones that are a fifth the price on AliExpress are the ones that failed QA testing for the whitelabeller, or they're the same board with lower-rated components attached, so they're not necessarily identical.