Caveat Emptor - "Let The Buyer Beware". Dozens of vendors on {www.DHGate.com} are claiming to have 1,000mw (1 WATT), 2,000mw (2 WATT), and 3,000mw (3 WATT) Red and Green LASERS for sale at ridiculously low prices. There are dozens of vendors on this particular Web site making identical claims, and the site has first-page Google visibility for the search term "1000mw LASER". There is a 1,000 Milliwatt PEN LASER (powered by two AAA batteries) - with a "star cap!!! What a joke!!!
Obviously, this entire site (DHGate.com) is a rip-off - at least where LASERS are concerned, since there is NO WAY that dozens of vendors would make identical typographical errors in their descriptions, adding an 'extra zero' to their product's power rating. I only show a few examples here, but there are many more on this one Web site alone, and hundreds more on the Internet as a whole.
Everyone is trying to cash in on that 'magical' four-digit power number. One Thousand Milliwatts - and even Three Thousand Milliwatts - It has a nice 'ring' to it, doesn't it? There are thousands of people who know shinola about LASERS, who may purchase their first LASER there... And get totally ripped off.
Now, one might say that I may have jumped the gun in my judgment here, but let me tell you that I've dissected so many LASERS, that I know from whence I speak. What is shown on their Web site is FRAUD and MIS-REPRESENTATION.
Their own ads are a contradiction. I'm surprised none of the forums warn of this, and if you are a member of such a forum, or blog on the subject, perhaps you would consider linking to this page and alerting those who aren't astute enough in their new hobby to be aware of what to look for.
The dead give-away for even a novice LASER Enthusiast is in the ads themselves. A great LASER Web site at has posted screen shots of the actual ads, and tells you how to spot a fraudulent power claim.
In every case except in these ads - which are numerous on DHGate.com, you will note that it states "Safety grade: Class IIIb" - or "Class B". Well, a 1,000mw LASER is Class IV; NOT Class IIIb, and certainly NOT "Class B" because there is no such category as "Class B". 500mw or above puts a LASER into Class 4 - an entirely different 'animal'. A mistake? A Site-wide type-o? No, I don't think so. Ad #4 avoids listing the "class" or "Safety Grade" entirely, probably because the seller knows that a 1,000mw Class IIIb LASER is a non sequituer. A lie of omission is still a lie.
If you want REAL LASERS with CERTIFIED power outputs, don't deal with China... You're liable to get ripped off big-time.
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