Razer mouse for 20 eur?

[Hehexd]

Hello,

I have found Razer DeathAdder mouse which costs only 20 eur.
I would like to know if it is original? Safe to buy? Looks like their mouse is twice cheaper than in another places

 

[sepheronx]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gearbest/comments/3i2ci6
In Honesty, I had this same mouse and it wasn't good, especially for its price. I purchased a cheap knockoff ones from China through Amazon that work perfectly fine for $15 CAD.

 

[RejZoR]

They do go for that kind of price, but GearBest probably isn't the most reliable source I'd say.

 

[micropage7]

Looks like super copy

 

[LTUGamer]

I have bough Razer mouse from them. Just a different model: https://www.gearbest.com/mouse/pp_1827667.html?wid=1433363&lkid=14997723

It is an original mouse and everything works great. They just take older unsold models from the razer and sold them much cheaper. deathadder in your link probably is the best possible mouse if your budget cap is 25$.

 

[IceScreamer]

I dunno, my brother bought one of these, looked exactly like the real thing, except it wasn't, the Synapse software wouldn't install. He didn't buy it from GearBest tho, but it was a similar site. Although it was fake he said it was a pretty solid mouse.

 

[m&m's]

It's either a copy or a version which was only offered in asia. To my knowledge Razer Deathadder always had 2 side buttons. The mouse linked doesn't have them. Even the Deathadder from 2007 had the side buttons.
So all you get is the look and ergonomy. It uses a infrared sensor while current Deathadders are optical. Visually it looks a lot like the older Deathadder, it lacks the dpi buttons, uses what seems like the scroll wheel and the coating from 10 years ago.

So if you want the look, it should be good but if you want something with a quality sensor it wont cut it, it either uses the old Deathadder sensor (from 2007-2010) or even worse a copy with questionable precision.

 

[Bill_Bright]

I cannot find that same mouse still available anywhere else to see if a good price. There are similar models, but not that one. It appears to have gone out of production years ago. The closest is this Silver Gray model, also from Gearbest but for $37.51 compared to the black for $23.99.

I suspect they are genuine. While GearBest does seem to have some Chinese roots, they headquartered out of New York so hopefully don't deal in counterfeit products.

It looks like to me they just have some of these old products on hand. It seems to me, at that price (for the black one), little will be lost is you buy that one and don't like it.

 

[Vario]

Some of the chinese products are legit, I had an MX518 I bought from china for only a few dollars that was legit. Performance was good, Logitech software worked perfectly and interior circuit board matched a US retail MX518. I know that there are a lot of Razer branded counterfeits out there coming from China though.

 

[Bill_Bright]

Some of the chinese products are legit

Most are, actually. If there is a legitimate brick and mortar street address for the company, the products they sell are most likely legit. Also a good sign is a professional looking website that is not full of grammatical and spelling errors. That, of course, is not a guarantee, but it is reassuring.

I think testing the waters of GearBest with a small purchase such as that mouse is not too big a risk.

In looking at the reviews for GearBest, as expected, they are mixed. Some claim they are the greatest, others claim they are frauds. But I note even NewEgg and Amazon get bad reviews because they sent the wrong one, or it was the wrong color, or the box looked like it fell off the truck.

 

[Vario]

Amazon has counterfeit products as well. You never know what you will get but they do have a good return policy.

 

[Bill_Bright]

Amazon has counterfeit products as well.

True, but they don't turn a blind eye when made aware of them as some retailers might. I would trust products sold by Amazon. It is some of their marketing partners I might have doubts about.