Hagibis cable scam
Hey everyone, just want to share my story of my most recent purchase that went really badly.
Hagibis has an official store in Shopee (SEA e-commerce giant), and it has this listing as shown in picture 1.
It claims that it is 80Gb/s. So, I bought it because I need two 80Gb/s cables for my Thunderbolt 5 SSD. Waited for a week, and I got the cable as shown in picture 2.
I am always skeptical about these brands, so I used my Power-Z KM003C to test the cable's actual speed. It reads the USB-C e-marker chip to see what's it reporting - and behold! Only 40Gb/s, as shown in picture 3.
I then messaged the seller directly to tell them about it, and they sent me the two images in picture 4. They told me that the 1 meter cable is only 40Gb/s, but the 0.5 meter cable is 80Gb/s. 🙄
I then checked the current listing of that cable on their e-commerce shop, and they swapped the image to show only 40Gb/s for the 1 meter cable. Luckily, Shopee caches the listing during my time of purchase - so I can get the before and after as shown in picture 5.
I got my refund already, and reported to Shopee as a counterfeit product. There is no "false advertising" category so this is the best I can do.
Anyway, I got the Ugreen 1 meter 80Gb/s cable and it worked fine, as shown in picture 6.
Seriously, I have more severe trust issues about cables after this situation.
P/S: I'm not familiar with Reddit. I rarely post on Reddit in general, so I'm not sure if I'm formatting the post properly. Either way, I think this is an important story to share - so here I am.