This is in reference to the Linux Handheld Emulation-device commonly known as "New PocketGo".
An OpenDingux-based device used to emulate 8bit to 32bit consoles.
Wolsen is the official AliExpress store of the manufacturer.
Link to original listing: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000402526977.html
Everyone who buys a certain number of devices gets to brand the devices.
Wolsen calls them PlayGo
Retromimi calls them PocketGo
other Chinese markets call the device Miyoo Max (As seen in Youtube videos by Taki Udon)
The hardware in all those cases is the same. From the same factory. Made by the same people.
The company decided to sell the first 50 production units using their own AliExpress store.
Which is where the controversy started, because retromimi thought that would hurt their business.
All 50 units (50 Units sold to 43 Customers) were manufactured on the 25th of November and are Final Retail Production Units. The manufacturer intended to sell those for 50USD (aprox. 10usd discount) but decided against it so as not to hurt Retromimis business by undercutting their own Dropship resellers.
Which makes retromimi's following behavior even worse.
After that happened Retromimi put a disclaimer on their Listing of the handheld:
Link: https://retromimi.com/products/new-pocketgo
Retromimi neither verifies, nor handles or ever checks these devices.
That is not how their business works.
They are a simple Drop-shipping operation. At no point do they ever have any items in inventory at their location.
You order from them and they pass your order on to the manufacturer who then ships it to you.
Manufacturing the device itself costs around 27usd to 30usd. That's how retromimi profits by simply redirecting orders.
They say they cant vouch for any of the units with different branding.
Of course they cant. They cant vouch for the ones they sell either!
How could they? They will never get to see any of them, since they aren't the ones who manufacture, test or ship them out.
All of this is terribly embarrassing for retromimi, because they now accuse Wolsen, the shop of the original manufacturer, to be the fakes. They just hope that no one who knows about this says anything, so it wont eat into their profits.
Retromimi has paid the manufacturer (possibly with money from the pre-orders) so as to claim 10.000 units of the upcoming production, so those 50 Units the manufacturer sold by themselves will be the only ones they sell directly until that contract is fulfilled. Especially since there are only 5 People in the entire assembly-line.
An OpenDingux-based device used to emulate 8bit to 32bit consoles.
Wolsen is the official AliExpress store of the manufacturer.
Link to original listing: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000402526977.html
Everyone who buys a certain number of devices gets to brand the devices.
Wolsen calls them PlayGo
Retromimi calls them PocketGo
other Chinese markets call the device Miyoo Max (As seen in Youtube videos by Taki Udon)
The hardware in all those cases is the same. From the same factory. Made by the same people.
The company decided to sell the first 50 production units using their own AliExpress store.
Which is where the controversy started, because retromimi thought that would hurt their business.
All 50 units (50 Units sold to 43 Customers) were manufactured on the 25th of November and are Final Retail Production Units. The manufacturer intended to sell those for 50USD (aprox. 10usd discount) but decided against it so as not to hurt Retromimis business by undercutting their own Dropship resellers.
Which makes retromimi's following behavior even worse.
After that happened Retromimi put a disclaimer on their Listing of the handheld:
Link: https://retromimi.com/products/new-pocketgo
Retromimi neither verifies, nor handles or ever checks these devices.
That is not how their business works.
They are a simple Drop-shipping operation. At no point do they ever have any items in inventory at their location.
You order from them and they pass your order on to the manufacturer who then ships it to you.
Manufacturing the device itself costs around 27usd to 30usd. That's how retromimi profits by simply redirecting orders.
They say they cant vouch for any of the units with different branding.
Of course they cant. They cant vouch for the ones they sell either!
How could they? They will never get to see any of them, since they aren't the ones who manufacture, test or ship them out.
All of this is terribly embarrassing for retromimi, because they now accuse Wolsen, the shop of the original manufacturer, to be the fakes. They just hope that no one who knows about this says anything, so it wont eat into their profits.
Retromimi has paid the manufacturer (possibly with money from the pre-orders) so as to claim 10.000 units of the upcoming production, so those 50 Units the manufacturer sold by themselves will be the only ones they sell directly until that contract is fulfilled. Especially since there are only 5 People in the entire assembly-line.
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