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I'm trying to find some for a reasonable price at a reputable seller.
Seeing as these have always been a fakers favourite i'm loathe to take a chance with Amazon or Play who are both using 'marketplace' sellers not themselves. (edit - in fact, they're both using the same one Best Digital Market) (edit 2 - especially having looked through amazon's reviews, the last few months have people complaining of poor build quality and no bass, two traits I certainly would not expect to see attributed to genuine items. "So I bought these again, the design had changed slightly, and they didn't even last a month." That just screams of suspect items currently as I don't think Sennheiser have changed them at all.)
I'm sure somewhere must be doing them for sub £20 that isn't completely dodgy?
If not I might just get some MetroFi 220s. I heard the Sony XB20s were meant to be a very good alternative to CX300s but having looked at a pair the bit outside the ear is HUGE so i'm avoiding those.
I know a few people here ended up getting some a while back, where did you end up purchasing and how much were they?
LeperousDust
12-03-2010, 17:41
I just wait till they're on offer, between the cx300 II's and the cx500s theres always something on offer direct from play or somewhere else for about £20. last time i managed £17 for the cx500's you just need to keep an eye on hotukdeals. After buying the fake cx300s and them susequently disintergrating, i've been more careful now and i've got 3 pairs of cx500's floating about that are more than good enough for general use :)
Moral of the story is just check hotukdeals a lot :p
LeperousDust
12-03-2010, 17:46
Quickly checking HUKD i've seen these:
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/10852716/Sennheiser-CX300-II-Precision-ECO-Headphones/Product.html?P36=KXWSQC&affid=hotukdeals&awc=buyat&_$ja=tsid:11516|prd:hotukdeals
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002EL3P5U/ref=nosim/?tag=hotukdeals-21
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_7&products_id=106750&PHPSESSID=e8ba03badfcd552a0ff6eb006f846606&source=webgains&siteid=20363
Just in the last few months as "decent-ish" earphones :)
£14.49, these not direct from Amazon then?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sennheiser-CX-300-II-Precision-Noise-Isolating/dp/B001EZYMTK/ref=pd_sim_ce_3
"Items for dispatch to UK will be sold by Amazon's Preferred Merchant."
Which is basically an undisclosed third party of Amazon's choosing, but not through the Amazon Marketplace system, so could still be coming from anywhere. If you then look at the page displaying which merchants Amazon will pick from, the one priced at £14.49 is indigostarfish.com.
A product held in Amazon's own stock will read:
"Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk." as seen on these TripleFi 10 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Ears-Triple-10-Earphones/dp/B000JFJDAE/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=electronics&qid=1268418772&sr=1-5) earphones for example.
This sort of stuff really annoys me actually, you have to be so careful with Amazon and Play nowadays if you want to be sure you are actually buying from them and not just some random other place. Alex's first link to the white headphones from play.com is the same, looks like Play but as soon as you hit Buy you realise you're actually buying from a Playtrade seller called 'dealhunters'.
LeperousDust
12-03-2010, 19:46
Oh sorry man, i didn't actually check properly yeah, it was a quick search on HUKD i hoped someone else would have sorted wheat from chaff on there, thats pretty shocking actually... Now i'm starting to wonder about mine... Haha :D Although they sound far far far better than the other fakes i had so i guess i can't complain, but i was listening to my old cx300s the other day and was suprised by how good i thought they sounded. So now i've got doubts =/
//Edit: Wow yeah just clicked buy on play, ok i've never bought anything by being tossed to resellers on play so im happy mine are real.... i hope. Whats wrong with the kiplsch ones from amazon, they've be pretty decent won't they man?
That's the thing, I'm just not sure I want to take the chance and I won't really have any definite genuine ones to compare to so I think i'd always have a slight doubt in my mind :p
I'm wondering whether to resign myself to either a set of MetroFi 220s or buy some CX300-IIs from somewhere like HMV in town which i'm pretty sure will be a genuine item but cost £30.
edit - The Klipsch ones look ok technically but i've seen a pair of S2s in the flesh and they're a very odd shape (same as the X1s), they look kinda like they'd stick sideways out your head about 2cm. I'm a bit undecided on those in general. I think the X1s are an old discontinued range too, which may explain the 'dispatched in 1 to 4 months' on Amazon.
LeperousDust
12-03-2010, 20:53
To be fair my searching was fairly **** it seems :D My original CX300's were bought in radioshack for £30 because i'd lost my earphones and was getting on a train in a few hours and HAD to have some form of music for my journey, i never initially realised how much hassle i'd saved myself until i bought some more a year or so later! My oriignal CX300's are still going very string though, bass heavy just how i like it ;D Can recommend the CX500's as well if you're looking not as bass heavy as the CX300's which is nice i guess in most cases but which is possibly what sometimes leads me to believe they're fake even though i don't think they can possibly be... Where was that link you had ages ago showing the differences and what to look out for in fakes? Did it include the CX500's too?
This seems a fairly good site, with a recommendation on where to get decent genuine items!
http://www.fakeheadphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=392.0 - a genuine set of CX300-IIs from mymemory.co.uk
http://www.fakeheadphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=285.0 - seems the stuff from 'Best Digital Market' are indeed fakes as I was worried about them being.
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/In-ear-Headphones/Sennheiser/Sennheiser-CX300-II-ECO-Noise-Isolating-Headphones----Black
£27 isn't horrific I suppose, seems high having seen £15/£16 plastered everywhere at Amazon and Play but considering those were all seemingly actually fakes it's not surprising.
I bought some CX300-IIs from HMV today, they're definitely real and they sound pretty good, happy enough with that! :p
LeperousDust
13-03-2010, 17:31
:p thats what counts, £30 still isn't that *much* for decentish earphones anyways they last long enough in most cases :) Hell my old cx300 originals as i said are hanging in there as my spares, and really i'm still more than happy to use them :)
You made the right choice. Having been done by fake CX300-IIs myself, it isn't worth penny pinching on them (though obviously genuine deals from genuine suppliers are sometimes out there to be had - I got two pair of CX500s that way).
Streeteh
14-03-2010, 09:53
Slightly worried now! I picked up a set for £15 from play (actually from play though, not a playtrade seller), i've compared it to the fakes photos on that forum and they seem legit. They're nearly a year old now and still going strong so i'm going to just tell myself they're legit and forget about it :p
Good earphone though to say the least.
Play themselves are safe. I got my CX500s from them too. PlayTrade on the other hand are not (I've had a few things via PlayTrade sellers now and had no trouble but I wouldn't risk it for things so often faked).
LeperousDust
22-03-2010, 16:58
Tada :D
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/638312/sennheiser-cx-300-ii-precision-nois
Shame it's a week late :p
Sold by i2Have :p
They'll be fakes then I expect :D
LeperousDust
22-03-2010, 20:21
No look at the ones for 12.36 theyre sold by amazon jersey, so they'll be real :p
Indeed, the same ones Jonny linked to earlier, which I avoided after people put up fairly recent reviews complaining of poor build quality along with a lack of bass and so on, which just screamed fake at me.
I'm not convinced the stuff from indigostarfish is definitely genuine.
Well I just got burned with some fakes, so that's me out of pocket for a few quid. Forgot about the information we spoke about here and foolishly just bought them on Amazon. Definitely fakes and have fallen apart. Luckily I've been able to return them, but I'll be out of pocket for two lots of postage :(
After all this faffing over the bloody things, i've given them away now.
They got replaced by some UE Super.fi 5s which dabs were knocking out at £35 a while back. Far superior headphones and so the CX300s never got used all that much anyway.
Gave them to my gf when she lost her iPod headphones.
I got some CX200's in John Lewis today. Was expecting to pay a lot for them but they were only £13.99. Not a lot of dosh for the real thing :shocked:
I much prefer the 500s to the 300s, I think they sound a lot better, in fact I never use the 300s any more since I bought the 500s.
LeperousDust
20-04-2011, 00:02
After all this faffing over the bloody things, i've given them away now.
They got replaced by some UE Super.fi 5s which dabs were knocking out at £35 a while back. Far superior headphones and so the CX300s never got used all that much anyway.
Gave them to my gf when she lost her iPod headphones.
Funny that i seem to always be gifting my headphones away like that too!
Yuck, my ears are way too manky for me to give my earphones to anyone. They could catch anything ;D
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