Is Shein a SCAM?

Lot of emulators are available, which makes sense because they're probably trendy. The G7 is one such emulator, but it's hard to tell if it's actually any good until you try it out. This one was relatively affordable, costing only $11. However, the problem with buying these types of devices is that sometimes you realize they're just full of built-in NES games, which can be lame.

I'm not a fan of NES games because I want to play other things. The emulation on this device is weird, running at a strange frame rate and with washed-out colors. For $11, it's not terrible if you just want a little emulator, but there are better options available.

You can spend a bit more money and get an emulator that can play more than just a bunch of built-in NES games. The screen on this device isn't the worst I've ever seen, thankfully. We have one more option to try out.

Oh no, my ear hurts from wearing those headphones earlier! I've got ringing in my ears, which is no good. Tinnitus is for old people, but apparently not me!

I'm trying to find my pants and figure out who owns them. Now that I've got my fit together, I feel like an infinite man walking through TikTok, trying to get views.

This device is inspired by a fake iPhone, which makes sense because it's relatively cheap - we paid $210 for it. It feels like an iPhone 14 or 15 Pro Max, but it's actually quite large and chunky. The display resolution is the same as you'd find on something like a Z Flip.

I'm still slightly confused about who would spend this kind of money on a device that's clearly not an actual iPhone. However, when we tried to watch a video on it, it didn't feel terrible.

Let's try out the camera and see how it does. This is just a sample of what it's like to record on the Blackview - while the phone might look like the real deal at first glance, you quickly understand why it's not sold in your average Micro Center or Best Buy. It's not terrible, but this device has its limitations.

I've got my pants now! With that sorted out, I feel like an infinite man walking through TikTok again. This phone might look like the real deal at first glance, but trust me, it's not worth the money. You can get a better experience with something like a Galaxy S21 or Moto G.

Wait, what was this device called? Oh yeah, Reteke... and then I found this clear FM radio on it! It's prison tech!

I've got some audiophile headphones from this device, which cost only $6. Normally you'd think that these headphones would be cheap, but nope - they're actually pretty good.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- SHEIN has become oneof the most popular appsin the world for buyingfashion and clothes,much the same way that Temu is for tech.But did you know that youactually can buy tech from SHEIN?The question, though,is it as good as Temu or Wish?Or maybe good's a bit of a relative term.At first glance, I mean, it's, it's,it's clearly clothes, right, like,lots of clothes.Wow. Okay.I think we might have to sensor that one.Well, wait, hang on a second.It is SHEIN.I need to, like, get a wardrobe, right?I'll get that later. I'll get that later.So if you scroll over tothe Electronics section,they do have a pretty good selection:game consoles, power banks.Here, let's go to cell phones.Let's see what kind of phones we can find.All right, so we got ourselves the...Oh, good Lord.The first thing is a fake iPhone.Now, to be fair,they do advertise it prettyclearly as Blackview.But, I mean, it is astraight iPhone knockoff.Like, it looks exactly like an iPhone.Oh, this is all so weird.Man, they got a lot ofweird stuff in here.A handheld game console.So it's another little emulator,but this one's a duplicatehandheld game consoleand battery bank.They literally took a little NES cloneand they slapped it onto a power bank.(upbeat music)Sure, let's do it.Wireless lipstick earphones.What the hell are lipstick earphones?Oh, my god,the carrying case is justlike a lipstick tube?(whimsical music)Oh, that's cool.These are the new K1smart Bluetooth earphones,which they're, you know,normal Bluetooth headphones,but they actually havea screen on the front.And it's 39 bucks.Now, if this is anythinglike what we actually getwith the AirPods later this year,this is not a knockoff,this is a knock ahead,knock on.(whimsical music)All right, you know what?Let me get some men clothing.I need men clothing.High top men's winter insulated shoes.Are these squishy, soft shoe-What the hell?It's like someone took a puffer jacketand made a shoe out of it.Boy, these are ugly.Wow, these are ugly.Well, here, this one's all right,the Tom and Jerry one.I mean, that's fine.It's made by SHEIN,so it's gotta be high quality.Look at, look at...There's a lot of justreal cringe stuff on here.So with that, my friends,I think we have all the techand vaguely tech-related items from SHEIN.So let me hit that big red order buttonand we'll see what happenswhen it all arrives intwo to four weeks apparently.I don't know.All righty, my friends.Let's see what we've gotfrom SHEIN, shall we?Now, I will say that thisis very much like Wishin that what happens is they must, like,ship all the packages tolike one fulfillment centerand they bundle it all together,'cause theoretically Ihave like eight or nineor 10 items in here.All right. (chuckles)(upbeat music)I gotta say,they're a lot fluffier thanI thought they would be.(Austin laughs)Oh, yeah. Hang on a second.Let me...(upbeat music)(packaging whooshes)(packaging boings)You know, the thing is Idon't know how ridiculousthis going to look,but it feels so strange.All right. Behold, my friends.Tada!- Oh, my God.- I heard SHEIN is the placewhere you can get yourself somehigh-quality fashion items.And boy, oh boy,am I a big old fashionable boy today.Fashionable boy, that's me.I can speak too.Look, we all make questionabledecisions sometimes,and SHEIN is all about fashion.And is this not fashion?Are we not running out of censor budgetevery second that I'm on screen?Maybe. I don't know.I might need a piece of tape for my hat.Happy birthday!There's tech in this video,I promise, eventually,if you're patient.The heavy rumor is thatthe next generationof AirPods is going toactually have a screen builtinto the case.Now, that's a strange rumor to me,but people seem to be very sold on it,so much so that companiesare now selling youthird-party AirPod-like headphonesthat actually have a screen on the front.Now, it's strange to think aboutthis from the AirPods side.But why wait for Appleto sell us a $400 pair of AirPods in 2025when you got the real-ishthing right off of SHEINfor the low low price of?(lively music)- $43.- $43! I thought it was 37.Well, close enough. (laughs)Bro!No, no, no, no, no.This is not a new set of AirPods.What are you...Dude, this is so ridiculously huge.This is a pair of Sony 1000XM5s,a nice compact case.And this is my AirPod Chungus 9000s.There's no way...You're gonna have a dedicatedpocket for your AirPods?Are you sure about that?Hello.Okay, how do I activate?Oh, oh, okay, we've got action.Okay, hold on a second.Okay, so it's actually like awhole operating system here.But they're not paired, though.How are they not paired?It's apparently playingThe Weeknd somehow,but I don't know where it's playing it'cause it's not on the AirPods.What? Connection successful.Oh my god. I finally got it.- Yay.- Jesus!- Oh.I could hear that even on my end.Is it just on full blast?Yeah, I could hear that-- Ow.- Pretty clearly.- But let me actually tryto pair the headphoneswith my phoneand see if that helps withany of the audio quality,but I don't think it will.Audio doesn't work.Look, I try to enable...It's for calls and inputs.I try to enable audioand it doesn't do it.It's, like, not a real pair of headphones.What kind of nonsense is this?The headphones wanna be paired to this,the phone wants to be paired to this,but they don't talk to each other.And on top of that,they're shipping copyright musicbuilt into your headphonesand they sound terrible.So you see here,I've got myself an iPhone 15 Proin a beautiful Latercase.But you know what?(lively music)Trying to do this withone hand's way harderthan I thought it was gonna be.Kevlar? No, thank you.I need some real protection.Yes, my friends,SHEIN has a surprisingly large amountof phone cases to choose from,and this is one of them.It's a lot floppier thanI thought it was gonna be.But you know what?That's fine,because I wanna make surethat when I get a call,that everyone knows exactly what's up.So I'm gonna go ahead andjust insert my phone in here.And there we go.So...Oh, sorry, hang on, I'm getting a call.One moment, please.Yeah, what's up? Yep.Uh-huh.Yeah, yep, another SHEIN video.No, no, they haven't caredabout me in a long time.This, how much did I payfor this very fancy casethat already has a hair on it'cause it's gross and rubber?- You paid 10 whole dollars.- If you want to havea real sense of qualitywith your phone witha durable rubber buildand you wanna show off your style,you wanna be like...- Wait. Walk over here.- Yep.- Okay.All right, there you go.- How do you do, fellow kids?(lively music)Oh, sorry. Cinnamon Roll is calling.(lively music fades)(Austin chuckles)Well, this is thematically color matching.This is my game box.Now, something I was alittle bit surprised aboutwhen I was doing the ordering scenewas just how much...Like, SHEIN obviously hasa large amount of things,but there's actually a lot of emulators,which I guess kind of makes sense'cause those are probablykind of like trendy.So this is the G7,which the problem is thatit's really hard to tellbecause a lot of emulatorsare kind of the same thing,but you can't really telluntil you actually get them.So this was, I think,relatively affordable.But the problem is that sometimeswhen you buy these things,you realize they're justfull of like NES games,which, no offense to NESgames, but it's lame.(upbeat music)NES games.(upbeat music continues)- What doyou have against NES games?- Because I wanna play,like, other things.Dude, the emulationis, like, really weird,running at like a weirdframe rate or something.Like,(whimsical music)the color's also very washed out.How much was this?- It was $11.Only one more dollar than that case.- I'll say for $11,if you want like a little emulator,it's not terrible.The problem is, is that youcan spend a little bit moreand actually get an emulator that can playmore than just a bunchof built-in NES games.And the screen's not theworst I've ever seen.But thankfully we have one more.Also, ah,my ear hurts from the headphones.I just, I realized thatI still have the ringingfrom those headphones blasting me earlier.- Oh, no, tinnitus.- Yeah.I mean, no!Tinnitus is for old people.I'mhip.Are these my pants.- I don'tknow. You seem very confused.Are those your pants?- I think I found my pants.Now that I have fixed my fit,I gotta say I feel Manfinity as hell.I'm just, just an infinite manwalking through the TikToksand trying to get the views.So this, I would categorizeas like it's not a fake iPhone,it's just inspired.And if you want everyone to thinkthat you're using an iPhone 11,then this is the move.Now, this one was relatively cheap, right?I think we paid less than $200 for this.- We paid $210.- $210 for it.I know that there were a fewdifferent versions of thiswith different storages.This is one of the onlyones that was in stock.It feels like an iPhone, like,14 or 15 Pro Max.Like it's a very large chunky Phone,but it's also like kind oflike tall as well, I guess.It's not actually going to be, like,the same size as like an actual iPhone 15.You can see it's significantly larger.So it's running Android 13which uses an eight core processorwith 12 gigs of Ram.Oh, okay.So the display is 2400 by 1080,which is the same kinda resolutionas you would find onsomething like a Z Flipor whatever.- Yeah.- I still slightly am confusedon who's gonna spendthis kind of money on it,but it actually doesn't feel terrible.Let's, let's try to watcha video on it real quick.That was some real danger right there.I'm just over herewarming up, getting ready.Speakers aren't good.That package was flung aggressively.(lively music)Did YouTube just crash?Yep, YouTube crashed.Okay, we'll try that again.This is not terrible.Let's try out the camera.So this is a little video sampleof what it looks like torecord on the Blackview.While this phone might looklike the real deal at first glance,I think as soon as you start using it,you quickly understand why it is not soldat your average Micro Center, Best Buy,Target, Walmart, or Radio Shack,'cause it's kinda bad.It's not terrible, mind you.I've seen worse.But, like, this is not some $70 phonethat you buy on SHEIN or AliExpress or whatever for fun.Like, this is actually aquite expensive device.And if I've got the choicebetween this and a Galaxy S21or even like a Moto Gor something, I just,there's no way that I'm going with this,like no shot.Yeah, maybe avoid.Definitely avoid.So this is Reteke-Wait, wait.Ret- Reteke-Rete- Retekess.Is this a clear FM radio?(lively music)(Austin gasps)It's prison tech.(Alex laughs)It's prison tech!We found more prison tech!Look. It's a clear FM radio.So alongside my prison radio,I also have some audiophile headphones.Now, for context, how muchwere these headphones?They were cheap, right?- They were $6.- So normally you'd think,"Oh, $6 headphones, no good."But like I'm telling you,sometimes these, like,like in-ear monitorscan be shockingly good,but you can't reallytell unless you buy them.Okay, I got static.Let me go through my jog wheel here.I will say this sounds good for FM radio.The only real negative I can say about itis that you've got very little space,so when you're trying to tune it,you have to be very precise.Like, this is the differencebetween one radio station and another one.Like, you gotta be real tight on it.I will give the radio a big thumbs up.But, honestly,the fact that this crappy looking radiosounds as good as those headphonesmakes me very excited.Let me actually plug this into a phoneand listen to it.(lively music)What?That's super weird.Okay, so I think they're okay.The thing is they're kinda bassy,but there's like no highend or mid range at all.But it's not like that kind of...You know, like when you listen to, like,really cheap headphonesand they're like just bassbecause they rattle?They're not like that.They actually sound likethey would be pleasantif maybe they had a littlebit more power to drive them.With my little USB-C dongle,I'm clicking like 80% volume,and they sound okay.But it's, like, you know, like,for those like kind of nicer headphonesthat need a lot of power,it's like you'lltechnically get the volume,but they don't sound rich, like,you're missing out a lot.That's what these sound like.I'm gonna give these a soft pass.But I'll give yourlittle transparent radiotwo big thumbs up.It sounds good and it looks cool.You know, I think atthis point in the video,we all need to take a second and relaxwith a dope new chair.Now, it supposedly hasnot only an ottoman,but also a chair.And it was available for a very,very cheap price of...I don't remember, but not a lot.I'm not entirely sure, if I'm honest you,why I purchased a big chairexcept it looked comfy.And, you know, after along hard day of Sheining,I'm not gonna use that as a verb,I'm gonna wanna put my feet upand enjoy a little bit of relaxation.Okay, let's see what we got here.(funky music)Hey.Wait, where's my ottoman?Hey, wait.Oh, there it is.Okay, I found it.All righty, my friends.(funky music continues)So here, I got an idea.Since, you know, we'retrying to, you know,to be funny for the kids,I'm gonna jump and land on this,and we're gonna smash cutand it'll be fully inflated.Y'all ready?- Yeah.(upbeat music)- Oh, wow!That didn't take 30 minutesof aggressive blowings.You know what?I could take a nap on this.Ah, what would I do without SHEIN,besides make better content?So this next item,I saw and I had to check it out.Now, at first glance,it looks like a little emulator yet again.However, this is not just an emulator,it's a 10,000 milliamp hour power bankwith an included controller.Now, if you look at thisfrom a few feet away,it might look okay,but as soon as you start looking at ita little bit closer,you realize just howthoroughly cheap it feelsNow, it does have a cable built in,so I'll give them props for that.So it does have a USB-C cableas well as it has aLightning cable built in.So you don't have toworry about losing those.While I'm charging myphone with this cablethat leaves me no spaceto game whatsoever,let's try and fire it up, shall we?(upbeat music)- Hey, that sounds familiar.(Alex laughs)- I wonder if they were madeby the same company.(upbeat music)Is it at least smootherthan the other one?- It is running at apretty consistent frame rate,it's just the wrong one.(whimsical music)(triumphant music)- Is that the first timeyou've made it through?- No. I've beaten 1-1 before.1-2, though, I've neverbeaten 1-2 before in my life.How much did I pay for thispower bank slash emulator?- Uh, I mean,keep in mind it's botha game and a power bank.- Uh-huh.- $45. (laughs)- Any emulator that only plays NES games,not good enough.You can spend,for 40 bucks you can getyourself a legitimate,real emulator off of AliExpress,Temu, Wish,or even...(faint lively music)Yes, my friends,because that wasn't enough,I got myself a real emulator.This is Anbernic.Now, if you're familiar,Anbernic is a company whomake legitimate, actual,real emulators that will playmore than just a bunchof built-in NES games.How much did I pay for this one?- Just under 100 bucks.- So, not cheap.But considering that thisshould actually play, like,real NES games as well as Super Nintendo,Game Boy, PlayStation,PSP, N64, like, theoretically,this is gonna do a lot.Behold, my friends.Oh, I forgot I got the translucent one!Hell yeah.Good job, past Austin!All righty.So this is the Anbernic.So we've got ourselves acouple of analog sticks,much better feeling buttons,a larger LCD display.And if we come around to the top,we have both USB-C's for poweras well as an additional controller,an HDMI, headphone jack,as well as we've gotourselves two SD cardson the bottom.So the way this is meant to workis that one of thesemicro SD cards has the OSand the other one,you can load up with a bunch of ROMs,which is a cool idea.Okay, we've got PSP, PS1, Vertical Arcade,CPS1, 1, and 2 cabinets,Neo Geo, MAME, Game Boy Advance,NES, Super Nintendo,Master System, Mega Drive,32X, Game Boy Color, Game Boy, PC Engine,Neo Geo Pocket, Game Gear, and WonderSwan.That's a lot of games.Let's try "God of War," shall we?"God of War"...So running a PSP gameis actually gonna be a littlebit demanding, I think.Ooh, I don't love thefact that it's so squishedwith the actual aspect ratio.I think I could probablychange the settings on that.But we're gonna try to play a PSP game,which is a much more demanding titlethan something like the NES gamesthat we've been playing so far.All right, we're in.Oh, that looks like it actually runs.Yo, that actually looks really good.Oh, oh, the audio is kind ofglitching a little bit though.Ooh.The audio is not great.Let's go ahead and try one more thing.Well, let's try somethinglike PlayStation.I think you'll be able toplay PlayStation 1 no problem.There's a little bit of a latency.Well, maybe it's not bad.Actually, you know what?This frame rate is smootherthan the original PlayStation.It's a little touchy on the controls,but that's not bad.Actually it's quite touchy.All right, we got 'em,we got 'em, we got 'em.Stay on it, stay on it, stay on it.Oh, no, we gotta line 'em up.No!No, get back over here, R33.Let's go.Go, go, go, go.Come on, NSX.Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.No! So close.Ah, how much did I lose that by?Also, a 52-second laparound High Speed Ringdoesn't sound right.I lost by a 10th of a second.Ah!All right. You know what?I feel good about the Anbernic.I still think we maybepaid a little bit morethan we need to.But as Alex rightfully points out,these are often sold out,so it's a little bit hardto get your hands on them.So I'll give this a thumbs up.I feel like this is much betterthan this kind of likenonsense that, like,seems like a good ideauntil you actually use itand realize that it'sbig, bulky, and silly,and just not that usefulunless you wanna playSuper Mario 17 all day,which I do not.Now, I have some questions about this one.So this is, at firstglance, a Switch control,but it actually is meant for your phone.So I assume it's got USB-C.But when I look at the top,there's a very interestingselection of things.So it says it supports the Steamdeck,Windows 7 through 11, Android, and iOS.But to my understanding,you plug this in via USB-Clike you dock your phone in.So I don't know how you would use thiswith like a Windows PC.Also it's very squished,so we'll see if it's still works.Oh. Ew.It definitely looksnot high quality.So...(whimsical music)Mm, it's okay.I will say the buttons do light up,which is kind of cool.But let me actually pairthis with my phone and see.And theoretically it...Oh, it's doing things.Okay, well, not what Iwanted, but okay, sure.So after wrestling with thecontroller for a little bitand realizing that Iwas in the wrong mode,we now have actual function.I can press buttons and things happen.So let's give it a try, shall we?So we're gonna play some "Sonic 2,"which I'm sure is gonna be great.Yo! Okay, so the controllerdoes work on Android.Oh, wait.(lively music)I'm just realizing, so it just...Oh, so you do have the touch controlsthat are still overlaid.Oh, oh, what the...B closes the game?What?Uh-oh, it's broken.It's stuck.The B button's stuck pressed down.All right, let's try again.Please tell me this works.Oh my god! No, it does it again!How much did I pay forthe stupid controller?- $20.- No, not worth it.First of all, yes,if you wanna pretend thatyou got a Switch, but, like,it's not built well.The fact that it's Bluetooth only,it doesn't have any kind of wired mode,so you have to deal withall the weird syncing.The fact that it has some button herethat keeps exiting me outta the game.No, this is not it.Now, I've heard a rumor.When it comes to purchasing, legitimate,authentic games for the Nintendo Switch,there are beginning to be fakes out there.Now, from time to timeI will run across itemson Temu, for example,that seem a little too good to be truewhen it comes to the prices of the games.And SHEIN has the same thing.So I have purchased whatis theoretically a real,legitimate Nintendo Switchgame for, what was it?40 bucks?- It was $55.- Wait, like full price?Wait, this has an Amazon on it.(Alex laughs)- Someonejust drop shipped it to you.(upbeat music)(Austin laughs)- Wait a minute, wait a minute.Hold on, hold on.So my... (laughs)I'm so stupid.I have never found aconfirmed fake Switch game.I believe that theremight be some out there,but this looks pretty legit.And it is just the cartridge.And, of course, the most important thing.(lively music)- Does it taste European?Does it taste like stroopwafels and-- Ooh.- Nope.- No, it's bitter. It's bitter.Yep, that's a real game.(lively music)Probably shouldn't just lick random thingsthat I purchased on SHEIN.But you know what? What could go wrong?- No, please don't, don't...Anybody at home, do not,do not do that at home.- You know, I do the sniff test,but with a Switch game,it's the lick test.(Alex sighs)Okay, I think it's pretty safe to saythis is a real copy of the game.I don't think that thislooks, like, fake in any way.So I would say everything we foundcould have either been foundon something like AliExpressor Temu for cheaper,but more importantly,it's just higher quality.Like, even though there's a lot of techthat actually is on SHEIN,it's pretty clear that itis an afterthought at bestand almost all of it is justrandom drop shipped nonsense.I don't know why I'm surprised.Sometimes when we do these videos,we actually find, like,legitimate deals or something.But, like, this stuff is just bad.Like, I don't thinkanything we got was good.Actually, no, I takeit back. You know what?There's one good itemhere and it's the chair.And I think that I'm justgonna sit on this chairand chill out with my giant weird shoesand contemplate the good old days when(lively music)Wish was popular.(lively music fades)