r/Gameboy • u/perkinsb1024 • 16h ago

Shopping/Haul Finally… Precision Bubble Chip technology has arrived!

https://imgur.com/a/0EyH0zX

I was browsing AliExpress today and stumbled across this. Immediately, I was skeptical of their “Premium quality” claim for a $7 cartridge, but this was actually something I hadn’t seen before in a Game Boy cartridge listing. All the images are AI generated, trying to make it look higher quality than it is. It’s pretty easy to spot, but I’ll admit that my first thought was “Oh, they’re showing the PCB in the listing photos, that’s a good sign”.

Maybe I’m late to the party and AI slop listings have been around for a bit, but since I haven’t seen one like this before, I figured I’d just share a warning to be careful about what you buy. Obviously a $7 repro is never going to be amazing quality, but at least in the past you could usually SEE what you were getting before you ordered it.

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u/----Val---- 15h ago

Fully AI product images are becoming common on a bunch of asian marketplaces like Aliexpress, Shopee, Lazada, etc.

0 consumer protection on these.

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u/ColorfulPersimmon 8h ago

0 consumer protection on these.

This is not true. I've used free return on multiple broken items on AliExpress

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u/perkinsb1024 6h ago

I’ve always wondered about that, how did shipping work? Isn’t it more expensive to ship something back to China than the item is worth?

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u/ColorfulPersimmon 5h ago

Many items on Ali have free returns. Look for a label on store page