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Buyer Education AI Is Excellent at Finding Products and Blind to Four Specific Things — What UK Buyers Should Check Before Paying AI product research genuinely works — it parses a natural-language description no search box accepts and returns a shortlist in seconds. It is also measurably unreliable on four specific things: current price, stock, […]
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Buyer Education Why Your iPhone Charges Slowly — And Why a More Powerful Charger Usually Isn’t the Fix An iPhone draws a maximum of about 27W no matter what you plug it into. A 96W adapter charges it at exactly the same speed as a 20W one. If your phone is charging slowly, the cause […]
Buyer Education Gaming Headsets in 2026: The Specs That Decide Your Audio — And the Ones Marketing Made Up Driver size in millimetres. Virtual 7.1 surround. RGB lighting. Three of the most prominently advertised gaming headset features, and none of them tells you much about how the headset will actually perform. Here’s what the measurable […]
Behind the Counter What 40000 Orders Taught Us About What UK Buyers Actually Want — Beyond Just the Product After more than 40,000 orders across eBay UK and OnBuy, one thing has become clear at Maibo: the product is only half of what the buyer is actually buying. The other half is the experience around […]
Buyer Education The Refurbished Electronics Question: When It’s a Genuine Bargain — And When the Grade Is Hiding a Trap Refurbished electronics can cut 30-50% off the price of a new device — or leave the buyer with a tired product and no meaningful recourse. The difference isn’t luck. It comes down to who refurbished […]
Industry Insider Before You Send Money to a Chinese Supplier: 23 Questions That Save You Thousands The most expensive mistakes in UK-China sourcing aren’t made when the goods arrive. They’re made before the wire transfer. After 20 years on the supply side, here’s the question framework that prevents almost every disaster I’ve seen — and […]
Industry Insider Alibaba Shows You Traders. Shenzhen Shows You the Factory. After 20 years of sourcing consumer electronics from China, I still use Alibaba — but for a fraction of what I once did. Here’s what changed, and what most sourcing guides won’t tell you about the difference between a screen and a factory floor. […]
Insider What a 20-Year eBay Seller Looks for Before Listing Any Product Most eBay sellers list first and think later. The listing goes live, impressions are low, conversion is zero, and two weeks in they’re adjusting the price hoping that’s the problem. It rarely is. Here’s the process that happens before a single listing goes […]
Amazon Guide Why Amazon’s “Fulfilled by Amazon” Badge Doesn’t Mean What You Think Most buyers see “Fulfilled by Amazon” and assume Amazon vouches for the product. It doesn’t. The badge tells you who ships the parcel — not who sourced it, not whether it’s genuine, and not who is responsible if something goes wrong. Here’s […]
Buyer Education Fake Samsung S Pen: 7 Signs You’re Holding a Counterfeit Right Now The counterfeit S Pen market has grown so sophisticated that even experienced buyers get fooled. Here’s what twenty years of sourcing from Shenzhen taught me — and what the listings won’t tell you. H Halil Ibrahim Tutuncu Managing Director, Maibo · […]
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