[forgotoldacc]

I'll be the voice of dissent here. I've heard nonstop praise for Anker online. Bought a couple keyboards and adapters from them and they all failed within a year. My wife got a mobile battery from them and that ended up dying in under a year as well. I'd be willing to write off one bad item, but I've had no good experiences and the pattern is clear to me.

[pengaru]

It's mediocre trash. But in relative terms... the bar is so low now and the market flooded with randomly named fly-by-night operators that even mediocre trash stands out as exceptional just by existing long enough with a consistently spelled brand name to not be perceived as a fly-by-night operator.

[water-data-dude]

Did you buy them off Amazon, or from a reputable reseller? I ask because Amazon mixes third party inventory together with first party inventory, so it's impossible to tell if you're getting a genuine product or a counterfeit.

[havaloc]

They are on the way of ending commingling, thankfully.

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/after-years-of-backlash-amazon...

[Groxx]

this is great news, but:

>To avoid commingling, sellers have long had the option to apply a unique, seller-specific Amazon barcode — known as an FNSKU (Fulfillment Network Stock Keeping Unit) — to every product. This ensures their inventory is tracked and shipped separately.

... is that really all that was necessary all along? I can see that being a problem for, like, 10 cents worth of stuff, but a lot of the commingling complaints have been around expensive items. It's not zero cost of course, but for your average $30+ thing it doesn't seem very difficult to justify.

[dehugger]

Requiring seperate Amazon only sku's (especially if they need it to be printed on the product label) is a giant PITA.

Definitely worth doing, but keeping up with all of Amazon's compliance requirements requires a fairly robust logistics system.

[hapless]

Amazon charges you for the “privilege”

[auxym]

Unless things have changed, Amazon is the official and only reseller for Anker products in Canada and probably many other countries.

[nfriedly]

I feel like anker combines mediocre quality control with pretty good customer service. A lot of the praise I hear from them includes something like "it died but they replaced it for free".

[devilbunny]

FWIW, after reading a few comments below you, I discovered that their usual warranty is 18-24 months. I've got a power bank that I had assumed was out of warranty (> 1 yr) but I'm still within 18 months so back to them it will go! You might find an equally pleasant surprise.