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When dealing with 99% of china know that once they have a international consumers money they will disappear, there is simply nothing you can do even if you can prove every aspect of fraud they commit.
Oh and by the way, if you go through Aliexpress (And I am sure there are other ways out there...), your money is handled like an escrow service, so they don't get nothing until you receive your item within 30 day's of payment to Ali (Whatever it be, 30 cent toothbrushes, or party balloons, for all that matters...), as well as giving you the option to dispute the payment if the item received is un-satisfactory/ not up to PAR laughing: I made a funny...)... Common sense would dictate to study up before making any major purchase, check the manufacturers history/feedback, talk to them directly and see if they are knowledgeable, and make sure you know what you are ordering. Most of these seller's are actually smarter worker's at the factories moving inventory off the back, they can make a profit still selling it for hundred's less than distributor's, thus so they also make good money on having return customer's.
I find it funny so many of us ("Horticulturalist's"...lol) feed into this ish. I mean it's kinda like an analogy of what got most of us into this in this first place. We were sick of buying sub-par product (Nobody beside's the Cree panel mfg's really innovating/impressing...) at stupid prices (See HGL), so we seeked out the knowledge to do it ourselves (DIYer's rejoice!). I mean how many of us would drop 5 bill's for a zip of GSC (Yall dropping $1k on china parts and thinking you better then the rest, lol)? we ain't stupid lol, it only took the same soil and lighting (Diodes, cooling...) as the next elite done right(Growblu, HGL, Diamond...), and clone's aren't locked like Fort Knox anymore (Can't hide spectrum's/current spec's forever, lol...).