A bunch of new cheap table saws just launched on Amazon.
Let’s take a look.
The “jobside tabel saw” has a 10-inch blade.
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It also has “Integrated folding legs [that] seamlessly form a folding stand” although the stand doesn’t look to fold from what I can see.
The table saw “can quickly tear hardwood easily.” I’m guessing they meant “rip” rather than “tear.”
It also features an “aluminum tabletop with excellent antioxidant and anti-deformation.”
Is that their way of saying anti-rust?
One brand advertises that their table saw can cut wood, plastics, aluminum, and even mild steel.
That’s not happening – you’re not cutting steel on a saw like this.
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All of the different brands copy/paste a lot of the same claims.
What is a monocular shield?
The “blade guard,” with an image of the riving knife, is said to “prevent the blade from popping once breaking.”
Copper wire, for “start overload protection,” and a riving knife for “avoid blade fragments popping.”
“Shake the handle to adjust blade height.”
This image shows an accident waiting to happen. The user should be distancing their hands away from the blade.
These guys are wearing gloves – a big no-no when it comes to machine safety. Gloves can snag – especially loose fitting gloves as shown here – and then pull your hands into the blade.
It looks like the fence has bolt heads on one side and larger protrusions on the opposite side, looking to render it practically useless.
This guy’s not wearing safety glasses. They should lose the gloves, wear safety glasses, and also – where’s the blade guard??
Here’s another example of unsafe use, pulled right from Amazon product listings.
This user has a push stick, and they’re using it wrong!! Push sticks are supposed to be used so that you can get your hands away from the blade. Their right hand is going to pass too close to the fence – that’s where a push stick should be used.
In a lot of these images, the users aren’t properly guiding wood boards or sheets. You’re supposed to use the fence for rip cuts or a miter gauge for cross cuts.
Just pushing a board through a saw blade is a bad idea, and also unsafe – freehand cuts are dangerous. Freehand cuts could lead to kickback, where your workpiece or cut-offs fly back at you at high velocities.
Also, tuck your thumbs in and know where they are at all times. Use push blocks and push sticks.
Here, a miter gauge is used, but is backwards, which is unsafe.
How do you use a table saw fence that has bolt heads sticking out of it?
I could never trust brands like these.
It doesn’t take a lot of effort for a brand to depict safe use of a table saw, or to have proper features/specs translations. If a brand won’t put in the effort there, did they put any effort into making a safe and capable product?
Amazon recently started applying “frequently returned item” notices to certain products, but that probably won’t help with the “alphabet soup” brands that seem to launch the same products under new names anytime negative reviews start to mount.
Robert
I wonder what the models thought of the poses they were instructed to take. Anyway, the saddest part is someone probably bought some of these table saws.
Rog
As someone who’s been on set for a lot of specific-use photoshoots, the talent rarely has the ability to properly use the product beforehand. They will just follow the instructions given. Not to say these guys can’t use a saw but it seems likely they just showed up and did what they were told.
Andrew
The middle picture of the guy with socks and shoes and shorts, grey hair, squinting, etc looks wholly uncanny. At the very least photoshopped, but maybe AI
Bonnie
Most of these are heads pasted onto unrelated bodies. Unless the dude in the burgundy shirt and shorts is a shapeshifter. And none of them are present in the backgrounds, and they probably weren’t using any of these saws.
Adam
Exactly, none of them know what they are doing in the photos, for one thing the blade is way too high in all the photos, and the way they are cutting a long piece of material, across the grain their going to have an accident with kickback.
Eliot Truelove
The worst part about this is that someone probably bought them and injured themselves on them.
Companies must account for user error to the best of their ability because even with the best engineering people can still find creative ways to hurt themselves.
It’s the exact opposite of those crazy guys who do super sketchy mods to power tools but have the experience to know what they can do and get away with.
Experienced people and sketchy tools often seem to be safer than inexperienced people with well engineered tools, and this is a recipe for the worst of both worlds: inexperienced DIY types using poorly engineered tools with product pictures displaying inherently unsafe practices they may duplicate and descriptions that a high school computer project on AI could write better.
These alphabet soup named ghost kitchen type sellers have zero accountability because it would be virtually impossible to find them to litigate.
I’m in the market for a table saw, but you best believe I’m doing tons of research and waiting for what seem the best of what I need with as much safety features that I can afford.
Robin
Tell me you bought a saw on Temu without telling me you bought a saw on Temu.
Fredrik Rudin
These are quite common here in Europe (Sweden), branded as Einhell, cocraft, Parkside or Meec. Price is usually 50% lower than their big-brand cousins.
Quality is ok, but just ok. Precision is bareable for now and then work. Safety is non-exsitent.
https://www.jula.se/catalog/verktyg-och-maskiner/elverktyg-och-maskiner/stationara-sagar/bordcirkelsagar/bordssag-008804/
https://www.clasohlson.com/se/Bordscirkelsåg-Cocraft-HT-10/p/41-2005
Tom
I want to applaud Cocraft for their bravery in proudly promoting their product with a peeling brand sticker on it…
Jason
The guy in the brown shirt has like 4 different generic guys heads placed onto his body in different shots. Shorts socks and shoes are the same though.
Assuming the attempt is to make it look like a lot of people have used the saw
Paul
Came here to say the same thing, and that it’s likely AI-generated.
Stuart
What does that change?
Chris
I would like to issue a correction on your correction.
“”The table saw “can quickly tear hardwood easily.” I’m guessing they meant “rip” rather than “tear.”””
With that 24 tooth junk blade I am 100% sure the correct term will be “tear” (-up ,-out ,-off).
;P
Champs
I know that this post isn’t for regular ToolGuyd readers, but I appreciate the public service. What that gray haired man with gloves sees when finishes that cut is the last thing I want to see before I die.
My only addition would be to point out the added value of established brands. Just the cut cut quality of a rack and pinion fence has to be worth something, even if you’re not going to get into dados or the many unsexy safety features available for your back, ears, lungs, and fire department.
Al
Brown-shirt guy is faked. Yhe foreground and background don’t match. And each head/face is plopped on top of the same clothes, including breakdancing shoes and striped socks from the 1980s.
The gloves might be to disguise the head swap, or it’s bad AI-generated image that can’t draw hands. Look at the fingers…they’re usually a tattle-tale, because AI doesn’t know what fingers are used for.
Scott K
That’s disappointing. I was hoping that they made each model share the same outfit. Same shirt, shorts, and over-sized gloves.
Stuart
Could be, but what does that change?
Scott K
Just making light of the lack of effort at the marketing photos.
More seriously- I’m curious who the target market is. I would hope that an experienced user would see many of the obvious shortcomings and be informed enough to stick with a reputable brand. Yet, they advertise making bevel cuts and using a miter gauge which are not beginner moves.
I find table saws more intimidating than miter saws. This is not the place for unsafe junk.
Brad
Sharp metal that moves at 3000+ RPM is not the place to take a chance on knockoffs—especially from companies that only produce knockoffs.
For that matter, I do my best to just not buy knockoffs at all, especially on Amazon. Most B&M have at least some safety standards for merchandise, so that you aren’t buying a tool that shatters into projectiles, a power strip that starts fires, or toys that contain lead. Amazon does not.
Hon Cho
The saws may be junk but that’s how capitalism works. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has contemplated Sawstop like safety features for all table saws but the combination of the Sawstop patents and cries of making saws less affordable and therefore reducing revenue by the manufacturers (and other things) have put that on the back burner. However, I like having a full range of products available in the marketplace, even if some are of questionable usefulness and possibly unsafe. As for Amazon’s role in selling, their veil of non- liability for such products sold through their website is slowly being pierced in the courts. Once it falls, they’ll get a bit more interested in policing unsafe products.
Mxx
Please no politics. What’s the COO of those saws? Where did saw stop technology originate?
If you choose to operate a dangerous tool you better know how to operate it or you’ll soon find out and not make that mistake again.
Mxx
To be more clear, where did the concept/idea of copying the Capitalist saw occur, where did the copying occur, where did the production of the copy occur, where did the marketing originate from, where did the award-winning ad design occur, etc.
Hon Cho
Sawstop is a table saw safety technology developed in the United States. It detects flesh against the blade and fires a cartridge bringing the blade to a near instantaneous stop. The patents are at or near the end of their 20 year life so we may see, in the USA and perhaps elsewhere, efforts to make the sensing and stopping technology required for all new table saws revived.
Any tool can be dangerous if improperly used. I, for one, have no desire to see useful and affordable tools regulated out of existence.
Tucker
I would love to know what would make someone purchase one of these vs a Ryobi or similar? I want a tool with basically zero support or warranty? These all looked like ~$200 – and a Ryobi is right in that range – heck the 8″ was only $150
Ben
You may be surprised how many people do not care at all about performance, features, warranty, etc. – the only and final factor is the price. Obviously that’s not the case for readers of a tool-oriented blog, but for the general public who may not be able to tell a table saw from table salt, it holds true depressingly often.
Potato
Maybe simply knowledge or lack of. Before I got into diy tbh I might have considered the no name alphabet soup brands simply because I didn’t know anything about the brands.
Jerry
I agree with Tucker. I got a Ryobi on Black Friday pricing for LESS than these saws are listed for. Granted not a cabinet saw by any means but at least I know who made it and where I could get warranty work or replacement parts.
Mike
The images alone, should ward off anyone with a clue. Unfortunately, there are thousands of weekend warriors out there with more confidence than brains. They won’t have a clue with regards to safety in quality, and will inevitably end up donating blood. Although there exceptions to the rule, you usually get what you pay for.
Jason
This makes harbor freight saws look not too bad…
MFC
When you’ve used a saw a lot your body just knows when bad stuff is going to go down. I need to do some breathing exercises now.
Out of all of my tools I have the most respect for my planer, table saw and router table.
ToolGuyDan
Don’t forget the jointer and lathe. The jointer and everything else you mentioned wants to maim you. A lathe—whether it’s a big, metal-cutting variety or a more modest woodworking model—is *actively trying* to kill you, and is always a little bit disappointed in itself when it only manages to blind or severely injure you.
Even a workaday wood like pine is still more than ten times harder than human skin. Next time you’re using a tool, watch your cutting edge go through the wood, and realize it’ll be ten times faster when it goes through your arm.
The fact that one can buy and use power tools without so much as having to watch a safety video, let alone hold a license, will be regarded as utter madness 100 years from now.
Bob
This is the exact same saw that HF sells for 150. I should know, my stepdaughter bought it and dropped it off with me so I can “adjust” it . Piece of crap?, Yes it is, but it can make a clean cut if the fence is square and it has a decent blade. And they dont sell it with a blade so you have to get one separately.
Mostly plastic body construction, aluminum top and a fairly inaccurate fence. It does have a riving knife so thats a big plus for safety, If she’d have asked me beforehand, I would have waved her off.
As for the ad copy from Amazon, typical Chinese $#!+. Can’t even spell “table” correctly. BS claims and photoshopped pics. Surprised they didn’t have some babe using it wearing a bikini with enhanced body parts to get more clicks.
JR Ramos
Your beef seems to be with the marketing and less so the product (although the point of the machine screw heads on the inner surface of the fence is a good one). From other articles it seems you are way behind on interpreting China-direct marketing with all the weird “chinglish” and definitions. It’s common and has been for many years now. It’s often humorous and ridiculous but once you learn more about the differences in translation and thought processes between English and various Chinese dialects, things begin to not look so entirely terrible (usually)…and you could say that about English vs. Many Other languages as well because the thought approach and processing is just different.
Trust? Never trust marketing and that goes for established actual Brands here or abroad, not just the China-direct stuff. Of course that takes some education about the products and their use, which as you point out is something many consumers these days lack and that is exacerbated by online purchases at times. But go ahead and trust the product if you know what’s up and are ok with the quality level of the products you’re looking at. These cheapos aren’t so different as many that were on the market 30 years ago and in fact some are probably exactly the same with minor superficial changes up top. Many stemmed from the old cheap Delta 36-510 10″ benchtop saw and just cheapened the motor and the table top. They’re usable and fine for many things but a) benchtop and b) cheap-o necessarily limit their value to craftsmen and professionals, obviously.
I think I got my feet wet in “interpreting” the marketing with China-direct products about fifteen years ago…now across many product categories and with a lot of necessary (seriously) purchases from Aliexpress, I can usually figure out exactly what is being conveyed although sometimes I’ll still see a head-scratcher or a poor/inaccurate/dishonest bullet point. Some of those appear simply because of the prevalent attitude of “sharing” (as opposed to our western attitude of “mine not yours”) where the product info and/or graphics/photos are copy-pasted millions of times by every little seller – they are usually selling the exact same product but sometimes not and that’s where things get disappointing upon receipt of the products. One example that always stuck with me was with synthetic insulation. Even to this day some still market it as “cotton” when in fact it is a synthetic material (usually as stuffing or in insulated garments or sleeping bags, etc). You see the same with “copper” an awful lot, and that is because for the most part they still think of the metals as “red copper” and “yellow copper”…the latter of which is brass. Some better “brands” have improved on these things for the US or global markets they advertise in. Flashlights? Same way. Anti-rust, anti-oxidation, anti-whatever…lots of that but you get the message clearly enough.
Message vs. Messenger, often.
Trust? Question everything and if you aren’t knowledgeable about something, research and ask first or take your chances. Safety? Cannot, should not, never have been able to rely on manufacturers for that and fair expectations should be lower for that aspect beyond the generic stuff usually included in manuals (big exceptions, imho, being electric mains products and now lithium cell products, both of which are finally getting some attention).
The only distrust I have with these cheap benchtop table saw is whether the motor is actually crap or not, whether the blade can actually be made square to the table, and if the table is reasonably flat and true. Everything else can be tweaked if necessary or just lived with as lower quality compromises. Just like the Delta, Skill, Craftsman, Ryobi, in days of yore, and Harbor Freight, Wen, and so many others now.
The Chinese seem often very resistant to changing some of this marketing style and the words used…not all but many. Learn to enjoy the folly I guess, ask for clarification from others if need be, see it for what it is rather than what it should be because in the end it’s usually not so erroneous or dishonest.
Shy away from most Vevor products by the way…they have a few gems but most of it is the same old crap at a higher cost and some of it is truly junk. They just have been able to establish the name (in this market) for awhile and put some extra gloss on their marketing. And they’re mostly approachable like Wen, who is a pretty solid outfit, but Vevor is worthy of a hard pass most of the time.
Sorry for the long rant. I think it just cheese me sometimes that people won’t accept some of the differences in culture and language and expect everything to be a certain way. I agree on many points but really the poor advertising is about these couple things for the most part. Doesn’t make the products themselves as bad as the marketing. It’s been ridiculous for two decades, much more prolific in the last half decade I guess, but it’s not likely to change significantly.
JR Ramos
Let me add a few more examples.
In the lighting products for the last few years, you see a push in marketing that says something like “eye care.” Boy that spread fast. This follows the general rebellion against ugly cold white cheap LED emitters as the market has demanded better color/tint from lighting. Ostensibly this “eye care” started out as low- or no-flicker circuits and also quality high-CRI emitters. Unfortunately the marketing gets copy-pasted so much and some of the products are just a warmer color temp and not high-CRI…..etc. But the claims of eye care, health, and some of the ridiculous graphics are widespread now and they will latch on to that forever.
In the same way that aluminum products or aluminum anodizing is so widely touted as “anti-rust”, it seems that now almost every titanium product has included claims of “body safe” or some such health claim. They take a basic property of the material and apply it to the marketing whether it really applies or not. I mean it’s great that my titanium disc brake screws won’t hurt my body but I’m probably thinking more about that if I buy a titanium mug or spoon.
I won’t get started on tool steels…..seek out the quality China vendors there I guess but it takes some doing to find out who those are, and then the pricing may not be what you’d hoped for vs. quality tooling and steels from other countries.
I’ve watched this crazy marketing for so long, and simultaneously seen the real lack of material/product/tool knowledge in this country become such a…a joke?…a travesty?…that it’s a real unfortunate combination. A direct result of having so much less hands-on work or manufacturing jobs nowadays. The lack of knowledge, incomplete knowledge, and even misinformation being disseminated now by so many articles and videos is just astounding to those who actually have the knowledge and experience. But it’s understandably gobbled up by those who don’t know, and it just proliferates…and those are the people that don’t question the marketing or perhaps fall victim to it. Makes product reviews a real treat to sift through or rely upon. 🙂
MM
A lot of the “strange” marketing can easily be explained by cultural or language differences. For example when these ads talk about the saw “tearing”, that’s probably a basic translation error. In the case of fabric “rip” and “tear” mean the same thing, though that nuance does not apply to wood. A non-English speaker or a less than stellar dictionary might not know the difference. I’ve seen the same happen in reverse as well. An American drawing Japanese-style comics (manga) wanted to know what character to use to write the title of their work. They looked up “blade” in an English-Japanese dictionary and found a character, which they proceeded to use. The problem was the character they found was for a blade of grass, whereas they wanted the one for a sword.
However, cultural differences do not explain things like the photos showing the tools being used improperly, like incorrect OPE, using the miter gauge backwards, not having the work firmly against the fence, hand positions, etc. Also, cultural differences do not explain the highly exaggerated statistics that many of these cheapo alphabet-soup branded products have. There are crazy marketing lies about the volume of horns, the brightness of flashlights, the power of audio amplifiers, etc. Sometimes these are just lies that are unlikely to harm anyone, like when a tiny flashlight is advertised at a million lumens. Other times the lies are outright harmful. For example, Torque Test Channel tested some laser pointers that Amazon advertised as safe for kids and pets yet were actually illegally powerful and were capable of causing serious eye injury in a fraction of a second. Flashlights were shown being used by little kids and yet got hot enough to burn. Those kinds of things go well beyond cultural differences or misunderstandings.
There’s also the question of why the first kind of mistakes persist. I can see how they come about in the first place, but why not hire a native English speaker to go over your adcopy before you post it on Amazon? The fact that this is not done shows a lack of care.
JR Ramos
Good points, and I agree. Things like the laser pointers – that’s simply a gross failure enforcing regulations that are in place (and/or should be improved).
Hiring someone…some do, a great many do not. Believe it or not a Whole Bunch of these “brands” are little more than very tiny garages, so to speak, that operate from a stack of boxes and have one person, or maybe 2 or 3. It’s the norm really…so much ODM and rebadging easily accessible and at the same pricing everyone else mostly gets. Vevor should be ashamed about the above ad copy because they are capable of much better but they are not exactly a top tier retailer, either…but they do have the resources.
Additionally, many of these small time operators – and forgive me for saying this bluntly – just do not have the savvy or sometimes the education to make these product advertisements correct. That cultural “sharing” is so vast…they simply copy and paste, and nowadays so much of it is photoshopped anyway, that things get applied where they may not apply and it’s just the norm. Yes, it’s wrong and it’s a PITA if you rely on marketing. It’s actually somewhat better on Aliexpress than it is on Amazon, oddly. But caring vs. ability…it’s not always a lack of the former. There are other factors, too, and the cultural differences shine in those as well, but that’s another subject probably not appropriate here. I’ve had mixed results communicating directly with actually a lot of brands/sellers on this stuff. Some fixed or improved straight away, some gave a friendly blow-off, and there were a couple that admitted they didn’t know how or could not for some reason. Generally they all seem receptive at least on the face. Speaking of “face” that is also huge and gets in the way of after-sales service frequently depending on the customer’s approach…very different and “they” have not all adapted to Western attitudes, or some just partially.
My point – with tools like this anyway – is that marketing is not what anybody should ever rely upon when it comes to operation and safety of equipment/machinery. Never has been proper to do that, never will be, and I’ve seen very few operator’s manuals over the years that are anything like a proper education in this regard.
Stuart
This isn’t about “west vs east” culture.
Even if you accept misspellings, translation errors, and poor documentation as commonplace, the depiction of potentially unsafe machine use practices is completely unacceptable.
Responsible brands will depict their products being used in safe and proper manners, and will discuss safe usage guidelines and practices in their manuals.
Brands that don’t care about their users will do things like show loose gloves worn around spinning blades, push sticks being used improperly, and hand positions that, if followed, could increase the potential for severe amputation-type injuries.
Over the years I have seen a growing divide between tool brands and manufacturers that take pride in their products and care about their end users, and those that don’t.
There’s no excuse for showing unsafe practices that could lead to injuries. To me, that’s a sign of a brand that doesn’t care.
There are definitely cultural differences – I talk with enough people from overseas brands to have recognized this a long time ago. Heedless marketing is not attributable to cultural differences.
Similarly, laser cutters require fume extraction, and I automatically ignore brands that advertise open air laser cutters for use on plastic and other engineered materials.
JR Ramos
Pardon me if this is pedantic, but I don’t see it as a “versus” thing, per se. It is absolutely a cultural thing, though, are you kidding me? Even with the great integration of global sales these days (platforms or direct) there is a HUGE amount of cultural influence that is exactly what you are seeing in this shoddy marketing. Huge…pervasive….and “irresponsible” is something that I might agree with in some ways, but that is also a completely Western perception here.
I typed some relevant comments in reply to MM above. I think my last paragraph is my main point. Marketing/manuals compared to actual user education in both operation and safety of machinery and equipment. The two have never gone together in any comprehensive sense (or very rarely, in my experience)…even the best (or most benign) advertising and the better manuals and such that I have seen just don’t come close to making an operator educated and ready to use the product (talking in terms of things like this benchtop saw and such…shapers or router tables, bandsaw, heck, even bench grinders). So if that’s the goal then it’s best to ignore advertising anyway, which kinda used to be the norm…ish? In the 80s and 90s we were poking fun at bad advertising from American tool companies although not as frequently as what can be done now with companies or “companies” from anywhere.
What you and I and probably all of your readers here know…well, we know, and we see these errors and faux pas elements, so we can choose to look past them or boycott them and get what we need where we like. I guess this is like your flashlight safety post awhile back and my apology if taking an issue with it seems over the top. Actually that flashlight PSA was probably better since that’s an area where people may be less aware of any danger compared with a spinning saw blade. I do appreciate your attention to safety and all that entails. These are very relevant issues in marketing but I think for myself I don’t feel like sounding an alarm over an obviously risky tool like a table saw is the same as a hot flashlight (or perhaps an electric hair dryer that has a mechanism to squirt liquid water onto hair while in operation…..or so many shoddy electric plugs/cords/heaters/etc).
Pride and responsibility…..until some deep rooted things in that culture are completely changed, we may not ever see that in direct product marketing/copy-paste/etc. Those few brands that capitalize on that, support them if desired? Same product, different price but with poor marketing…I’ve chosen the latter more than once as an educated user and shopper. Where it applies, I’m more likely to “support” a brand when they have actual product support such as parts or firmware upgrades and such, even if their marketing is crappy or erroneous.
Longwinded again…apologies. A very happy New Year to you, Stuart! 🙂
Stuart
A lot of Asian companies are very conscientious about their products.
I have spoken with a couple of OEMs based in China over the years, and they also tend to use completely different tactics than no-name junk companies.
I can assure you that some western companies would do the same if they wouldn’t be litigated into oblivion.
In the news today, someone is suing Hershey for millions of dollars because their Reese’s chocolate covered peanut butter football-themed candy is egg-shaped and wasn’t decorated like a football.
Things like hyperbole, inaccurate translations, and misspellings can be forgivable. But depictions of unsafe use? That’s a sure sign no one at a company cares. And if they don’t care enough to adhere common safety practices in advertising imagery, how likely is it they put proper care into their product design or manufacturing?
Happy New Year!
Shawn Yuan
There is a common saying amongst merchants there. “能騙就騙。”
Obviously, common doesn’t mean all.
JR Ramos
That and some others. I don’t know how common it still is these days (at least in e-commerce) but in my experiences it does still exist. Some see it has harsh or not factual to point it out but it’s very much a thing. I saw it in the 90s as imports really ramped up and it was “interesting” to learn to work and barter with reps at the trade shows and then to see how things played out after that order was signed. Crazier and much larger world of that today. I’m no expert on Chinese culture but have learned a lot…sometimes it’s hard for us to conceive what these differences really are and how they can be such. And yet we’re all mostly still the same humans, as people.
Peter Unlustig
These pics can be used on what not to do when training woodworkers. 😉
Curtis
My friend and I got looking at Amazon after reading this article and came across this “Multi-Functional Table Saw Mini Desktop Electric Saw.” It’s only $45 CAD taxes in, so our curiousity got the better of us, and we ordered it. We should get it tomorrow and we’ll unbox it and take a good look at it. Check out the accessories that come along with it!
Power source: gas
Voltage: 240V
lol!
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0CG19T258/
Peter
MORE PORTABLE, MORE SPACE-SAVING,
MORE BETTER
😂
James
That’s what I noticed too! Hilarious.
JR Ramos
Ha. I’ve noticed a lot of those things too on Amazon. Comes down to form work and lazy sellers most often (even many American companies have ridiculous errors there). It’s exacerbated by allowing more than one seller to change product listings/photos/information, so a listing can get out of control and hard to fix just because of one moron.
Do pay attention to the voltage and confirm before purchase…that’s a common error and for some reason people do list appliances and soldering irons and small direct drive motor products like this that may or may not be the voltage shown on the page.
Don’t forget to apply teflon tape to the cord plug….
Adam
These table saws are junk , and the people using them aren’t woodworkers or carpenters, they’re not using the right work practices , some of the photos look dangerous.
Tim
What’s weird is the Vevor branded stuff is usually not terrible.
It’s basically what Harbor Freight used to be. Maybe some of the small tools aren’t gonna last you a lifetime but the value isn’t terrible for stuff you don’t use every day.
Kyle
All of these crazy images are crudely Photoshopped, by marketing people who have absolutely nothing to do with the companies that manufacture the product. VEVOR is the most visible example of this behavior, but they are just a meta-brand that is no different than the alphabet soup listings. They aren’t really a manufacturer, it’s just an import label for selling products from a wide variety of sometimes quite small manufacturing operations. These independent manufacturers make the products, and VEVOR provides marketing and sales to the US. That’s the fundamental disconnect. VEVOR is like a store brand with no store. The hapless marketing folks at VEVOR don’t know anything about actual products, and likely have limited to no physical access to them. They use Photoshop to cobble together “in-use” pictures of products they can’t take pictures of themselves. The photos they use in these compilation images are often sourced from random images on the Internet, other similar products, and stolen from other brands who actually invested in genuine marketing efforts. These table saw pics are so wild (bolts sticking out on the face of the fence, things facing backwards) because they never actually happened, and most of all do not accurately depict the product itself. Importers like Harbor Freight and Northern Tool also buy factory direct overseas and have the items labeled with their house brands, but they invest in taking real pictures of the items and having fluent English speakers write/proof the descriptions. They also provide physical stores/distribution, but it’s all part of a business model that based on buying overseas merchandise and selling it for a tidy profit with professional marketing. VEVOR is based on selling largely the same products, but undercutting the other importers on price by cutting overhead to the bone and then some.
Andrew
Anybody else notice the lotion and tissues on the workbench behind yellow ear-muffs dude? Are we sure this is a product photoshoot and not some other sort?