Primus / Stove Appreciation

Lid will leak.

Do. Not. Want.

No idea. It's just in my AliExpress hold list. It's basically eBay at this point so have no concerns using it and avoiding the UK seller markup.

I'm personally considering a soto fusion trek

It's more that I would rather someone imported one big box of things than 40 million people order loads of little boxes of things. Plus it's another website I don't have to give details to and there's the EU/UK warranty and QC aspects. Yeah, half the time it's probably the same shit and it's probably not logical but it's how I'm rolling for now.

Fair.

Regarding the big box of things though, these places ship hundreds of random items at a time so it's still one big box of imported things being sent over.

How does that work? They have a local warehouse that then splits it up into normal post or something?

The lid doesn’t leak once you check/replace the seal. It’s just a caveat emptor.

As far as AliEx, what they do now is bulk-ship orders. So lots of bags of crap go into a single consignment and it’s checked and sent on the other side.

Effectively the warehouses shove it all together and it’s dropshipped to Royal Mail/Evri etc on the other side.

I don’t mind it so long as it’s something cheap enough to warrant zero aftersales. That said, aftersales in the UK from ‘proper’ brands can be non-existent as well.

I’ve got one of those springy roll up ones that grip around the mug. Yeah so much better on my beer can burner.

Interesting, I didn't know that. It's like the Aussie wine shipments - they come in a massive bladder and are then bottled on the other side of the world so they don't have to ship bottles. Quite clever (although I'd argue that clever would be buying wine from closer to home in the first place waves at France)

Yea I wasn’t really aware until I’d ordered a few things. It’s more obvious when you order items from the same supplier and get multiple packages, but then from different suppliers and it’s bundled into the same bag.