Beware fake hard drives sold online
Amazon.com shoppers should be wary of fake but positively-reviewed portable hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) selling on its marketplace.
Review Geek recently found several 16TB portable HDDs and SSDs from unfamiliar brands on Amazon...
We bought a bunch of stuff off Wish — and were pleasantly surprised
MyBroadband bought four items off Wish.com with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised when they all worked.
We were impressed to get an entire order with working items from Wish, as we received some fake products from...
I bought a P50 Pro smartphone from Wish — but received something very different
MyBroadband purchased a smartphone marketed as a P50 Pro with high-end specs from Wish, but what we received was a low-end device with fake specs.
The advertisement for the P50 Pro tried to make the phone look like...
1TB memory card bought from Wish — expectation vs reality
MyBroadband purchased a 1TB MicroSD memory card from Wish, but testing revealed that we actually received a 16GB card.
The memory card is advertised on Wish as a Lexar 1TB Class 10 high-speed Micro SD memory card.
Getting a refund from Wish for fake products is surprisingly easy
A recent test by MyBroadband revealed that it is surprisingly easy to get a refund from Wish when you receive fake products.
MyBroadband purchased a 1TB memory card and a 2TB flash drive from Wish, but what we received was a far...
We bought a 2TB flash drive from Wish — but got something very different
MyBroadband purchased a 2TB USB 3.0 flash drive from Wish, but testing revealed that it was, in fact, a 16GB USB 2.0 drive.
Marketed as an “ultra-large capacity keychain flash memory USB stick”, the 2TB drive cost $9...
Buying from Wish using the SA Post Office — surprising result
We put Wish's recently-announced partnership with the South African Post Office to the test and were pleasantly surprised.
Earlier this year, the two organisations announced a partnership promising faster deliveries and an improved...
I use Snowball as my ISP. Recently, our router/wifi has been intermittently (and getting longer each day) taken over by #WISH network, asking to sign in to wish as soon as I connect to the wifi hotspot.
Also, a new #WISH hotspot is being created from our router alongside our normal one.
At...