BHills
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When you do a search for phones with certain specification key words such as "MTK6582" and/or "Quad core" etc. and then try to sort them in price ascending order, you will see quite a number of phones at ridiculous low price relative to sellers who have sold the most (sort by orders).
However, the low price sellers all have zero feedback rating and apparently have made zero sales.
At the minimum, they have made people take note of certain phones which satisfy the key words and make them likely to do further research on the phones' specifications and actual prices. (This was what it successfully enticed me to do when I wasn't familiar with aliexpress at first).
Apparently, these fake sellers probably have another account/shop selling those phones at "normal" prices and so when you do further research on the advertised phones, you will likely come across their actual shops and sales.
For e.g. this fake seller probably has another account/shop selling Lenovo and CBT.
wholesale 100% Original Lenovo A820 Android phone MTK6589 Quad Core 4.5 inch Android GPS Smart phone black white from xin ning
If you try to buy any of those ridiculous low priced sales, may be it can't proceed or will tell you no stock or never ship at all and eventually just automatically refund by aliexpress when you open a dispute or they will send your an item different from your order.
If the item does not arrive and you fail to open a dispute within the protection period, your money will just go to the fake seller and there is no recourse.
At the end of the day, there is no free lunches. If an offer is too good to be true, don't waste your time and effort and risk your money.
There is no substitute for doing proper research.
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