QuickCharge Pro is a SCAM (It Gets Worse) - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk

2 and a half years after my last charger scam-buster, there's a new one on the horizon—QuickCharge Pro—and I believe it is WORSE than the other two. But at the same time there might be some… redemption?

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00:00 Introduction
00:41 Video Ads (Overview)
05:20 Video Ads (Breakdown)
13:49 Web Presence
16:50 Purchase
17:35 Dropshipping
18:53 Product Overview / Checking Specs
20:47 Let’s Open It Up!
22:48 Product Test

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[SabrinaConstance]

I've been seeing a lot of ads for a "bulletproof vest" that is made of neoprene. Nothing screams safety about a BF vest than a YT ad that 100% text-to-speech, AI generated, and full from stolen video footage and grammatical errors.

[gswdeclan]

These scams go so far back, I remember as a kid 30 years ago seeing a late night TV ad about some device that would improve your car's performance and 3x your fuel mileage or something similar. It's always "these evil companies are trying to stop this groundbreaking invention because they have a financial interest in the status quo." The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[angybean]

That giant charger with 100 lightning cables attached to each other is a real youtube video and that ad is stealing footage from it

[DaveTexas]

Wait, they used an actual human voice instead of a terrible text-to-speech voice in their ad? They were working with a big budget! Must be totally legit. I’ll take a dozen!

[KaneLivesInDeath]

"Nanotechnology"

They aren't even TRYING anymore! 🤣

[scrumbles]

They don't use the brand name in the video so they can reuse the ad every time they rebrand to avoid bad publicity.

[CanMav]

Oh no, Old Man Ken forgot you only need 1.21 gigawatts for a flux capacitor.

[Connie_cpu]

"programmed extinction" sounds like a bad google translate copy-paste of planned obsolescence

[TheBitGuy]

Great video! I love your scam busting!

[malcolmhutchison]

Regarding patents - if you are shipping a product then if someone files a patent then their patent will be invalid as your product would be classed as prior art

[Vladimir_Kv]

I think the myth about lithium battery "healing" is born from the real ability to "regenerate" car lead acid batteries.

[BaIlincat]

"Programmed extinction" is the funniest misstranslation

[FireMageLayn]

People need to think. Planned obsolescence is a thing... not in the sense the scammers are using, but in the sense that devices are made to be difficult to repair when something breaks to make you buy a new one... but if someone really DID come up with a miraculous device to "undo" it, they'd make far more money selling the patent to a smartphone company so they can sit on it.

[MattMcKasty]

I buy these chargers off Aliexpress for $1.99. They're can charge a single device at maybe 18 watts and it goes down as you plug in more devices. The total output for everything is 65 watts.

[easyway]

UGreen : can we sponsor you
ken : sure let me dig an old scam
LOL

[everyhandletaken]

😂 this is the most elaborately described phone charger of all time.

Excellent work, as always, Mr Ken 👏🏼

[maximrukinov]

Holy Molly, I have a couple of them, bought for $3 each. This model is pretty common on Aliexpress, fits fine for parallel charging of small electronic things like smartwatches.

Fast Charge port is dangerous, though, makes this brick extremely hot.

[nojustno]

The qcpro websites for other countries are probably done that way because of better consumer protection laws about false / misleading advertising than the US.

[Cryowatt]

It's important to note that this device isn't even a charger at all, it's just an AC to DC wall wart that just happens to use USB-A ports instead of a barrel jack or some other proprietary port. The actual "charger" on every phone is in the phone itself, which takes the 5V USB power input and manages the battery charging (often called a BMS, or battery management system).