{"id":506,"date":"2015-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/droix.co.uk\/blogs\/good-enough-mccoy-or-con\/"},"modified":"2021-09-16T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T12:07:09","slug":"good-enough-mccoy-or-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/good-enough-mccoy-or-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Enough McCoy or Con?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whether using a similar looking case with slower (often older) components, or simply lower quality substitutions for the hardware, unscrupulous dealers out there <em>will<\/em> take <em>your<\/em> money.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>You'll not be getting a good product, and often the support often is minimal at best.<br>If you want to save a few pounds, buy a mid-range device from a reputable supplier.<br>We'd obviously prefer it if the device came from us, but we don't want any more unsuspecting members of the public to find out the hard way that counterfeit and sub-standard silicon do not represent long-term savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you order a DroiX\u00ae device, it should come from us or Amazon. If another retailer claims to have new DroiX\u00ae devices at a discount, they are NOT supplying DroiX\u00ae hardware. To ensure you're receiving the real McCoy order directly from https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/&nbsp;. (This does not apply to second hand devices, though support for these will require proof of the original purchase from us).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get a device from a company in Britain. All staff use these products at home. Some retailers across the world don't take their work home&#8230;<br>Why? If you're selling fakes, you'd not want the following scene re-enacted with your loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Counterfeit Plug Fuse Exploding\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KVJVswLbqaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether using a similar looking case with slower (often older) components, or simply lower quality substitutions for the hardware, unscrupulous dealers out there will take your money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-hardware"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}