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Our competition exposed: Chinese Portable magnetic stripe readers.

This is only our initial finding. More to come.

The manufacturer of these products approached us to sell these products as well. We test and review products before they are sold by this company. Look at what we found and judge for yourself.
Chinese number 1
They say the Chinese #1 is smaller than the MSR400U/Mini400. What do you think???
 
Chinese number 2
In the picture above on the left is the back of the magnetic heads. Not attached very well to the case. The wiring is not soldered well either. To support the solder joints hot glue was put on to of the wiring. In hot weather conditions this glue melts, "we tried it". This could cause the wires to short out.

On the right side of the above picture, you can see the battery is soldered to the portable. The consumer can not replace the battery if it fails. These batteries don't come from Wal-mart or Radio Shack.

On the left is the MSR500M/Mini123. On the right is the Chinese #2. The circuit board on the Chinese #2 is much larger and the parts to be less efficient than the MSR500m. To most people this doesn't make very much difference but we found that the Chinese #2 power consumption is much higher causing the batteries not to last as long.
 
This is only our initial finding. More to come.