Originally Posted by sjanzeir

Play the game, man! Have you tried buying anything brand-name from any Western World vendor in the past year or so? It seems that in these dire times, Aliexpress might be our friend and savior. But then again, with a place like Aliexpress, our choices are harder to make: Try choosing between a Shimano MT200 brake set ($80) that may or may not be counterfeit and a Meroca M4 brake set ($60) that you know is a knockoff (of the Clarks M4, in this particular case) that may or may not have an issue or two out of the box.