Chinese/Electronic and computer goods

Amateur radio

• Baofeng

Battery chargers (for either or both of NiMH and Lithium rechargeables)

• Miller ML-102 v8
• Xtar MC1 (I will add more notes here later, but there are many more Xtar chargers out there I recommend. Generally speaking I think they offer better values than the Nitecore brand)
• Nitecore i2 and i4 (d2 and d4 if you like to additionally have a display or LiFePO4 charging)
• Klarus C2 (also can be used as power bank)
• Opus BT-C3100 (preferably v2.2+)
• Skyrc MC3000
• Liitokilla

Batteries

NiMH AA/AAA:

• Hobbyking's Turnigy (Eneloop alternatives, high-end, check which warehouse you buy from!)
• GP ReCyko (Ikea Ladda alternatives, low-end)

Lithium rechargeables:

• Buy LG/Sanyo/Panasonic. Not necessarily Chinese in origin, but Chinese resellers are often the cheapest way to get smaller quantities shipped.

Bicycle computers

• BoGeer YT-816, YT-833

Drawing Tablets / Digitizers

• Huion

Drones / Quadcopters

• Cheerson
• Floureon H101
• Eachine H8 with Open Source Firmware[1]

Electrical DIY

• Aoyue and Yihua 936 soldering station (double check ground)
• A-BF GS60 and GS90 soldering irons (GS120 uses hard to find larger tips that are expensive & harder to find, better avoid that one)
• All-sun multimeters
• KCX-045 USB voltage meter
• Uni-T (anything, official spec sheets are correct)

Gaymur gear

• Clone headsets

Google "Cardboard" VR Glasses

• BoboVR II and III
• VR Box II

Microphones

There are clones of popular mics found on Amazon (BM-800, BM-700, BM-8000), which are usually (but not always) significantly cheaper and hence what you should be after if you're looking for acceptable value for money out of Chinese microphones.

Note: The microphones mentioned in the parenthesis above all ship with a 3.5mm plug. If you're looking to do live recordings/chat or broadcasting keep in mind that there's going to be a considerable amount of noise (which can normally be removed through editing). A solution to that would be to use a phantom power, which kinda defeats the purpose of buying chink microphones as it's more expensive than those mics themselves.

A simpler solution would be to buy a USB microphone. This way microphones that are going to be used on a PC can draw sufficient power without the use of other tools so you wouldn't have to worry that much about noise caused by lack of power. Go for a MK-F100TL.

Music / MP3 Player

• AGPTeK (alias for RuiZu)
• RuiZu X02 (Flash the AGPTeK's software on it)

Networking

• Xiaomi Mini Router

Sports cameras

• Mobius Actioncam
• SJCam
• Xiaomi Yicam
• EKEN H9

Tablets

• Cube tablets
• Chuwi tablets *Chuwi Hi8 is known to have a few issues. (overheating, low battery life)*
• Onda tablets
• Teclast X98 Pro
• Xiaomi Mi Pad 2

Pros

• Great build quality
• High PPI screen, no gap between device and screen like most
• 9-10 hour battery
• Doesn't get very hot
• Speakers are clear and bassy, no distortion at high volumes

Cons

• 2GB RAM means it lags at having Youtube, Windows store, a couple of tabs and Evernote all open together. You'll see it slow down quite a bit with switching tabs etc.
• No micro SD slot
• Only one USB type C port with no video out support
• Reported screen flickering at higher brightness and certain colours, as well as faint vertical lines at the bottom centre of the screen
• Minor build quality issues; one anon reports creaking noises when cold at the bottom left of screen like it's not fully fitted

Universal programmers

• MiniPRO TL866xx series programmers (works on Linux and Windows)

USB chargers

• Orico. Orico generally makes quality stuff.
• Tronsmart
• Xiaomi's power rail (the version that has USB ports)
• Aukey USB chargers