Alibaba is a scammer's paradise, and their trustpass is a joke since anybody can buy one. There are also lots of middle men and trading companies posing as manufacturers. If a seller on Alibaba offers any top-selling electronics (iPhone, PS3, etc.) for impossibly low prices, it's a scam. Ask for proof-of-stock photos. Get them to write your name on a card and take a photo of it in front of their "stock" of name-brand electronics. They might take a picture of 1 iPhone (probably ⊗⊗⊗⊗) or an empty PS3 box.
Never, ever, do business with sellers from Putian City in Fujian province. This is a scam city with big fraud rings run by organized crime. Most trustworthy sellers of OEM electronics, memory cards, mobile phones, etc are in Shenzhen, with HK registered companies. I have done business with them, not through Alibaba, and only after I visited their companies in person and did my due diligence.
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