Alibaba Campers

[DosTacos]

I have been looking for a pop-up camper for my truck for the past couple years. All the decent ones I have looked at are $15k plus. Anything sub-10k is either DIY or needs a lot of work. Ideally, I'd like a Four Wheel Camper Raven but those are $20k+ most times. Recently I have seen more of the Alibaba campers (Qian and Hiperlion) popping up and wondering if anyone here has experience with them.
I've watched several YT videos and for the cost (~$5k delivered), they seem pretty decent. Specifically, I am looking at the hard side campers like the TP07B.

 

[smritte]

I've wanted a small hard side popup like that for quite a while. I started reading and researching several years ago. I haven't found a review on one of the China campers that was older than "We Just Got This". No telling how they hold up after two years. I did find quite a few comparisons to the more expensive campers. The good things were mostly cost. The bad was material thickness, zipper quality, rusted parts, hinge quality, poor finish............

I gave up on it a couple of years ago and set my sights on Lone Peak Overland. I've compared them side by side with the top campers at the last two off road expos. They didn't cut corners and I was able to talk to one of their designers at the last one. My background includes fabrication, mostly around vehicles. I grilled the crap out of the guy and walked away impressed. I was looking at their base model with one or two adds and was going to build the rest myself. The price came out to a little over a China camper and almost half the cost of a big name brand. This was comparing like outfitted campers.
The also have an owners web site and I was able to read about ones that were a few years old.

 

[DosTacos]

I've wanted a small hard side popup like that for quite a while. I started reading and researching several years ago. I haven't found a review on one of the China campers that was older than "We Just Got This". No telling how they hold up after two years. I did find quite a few comparisons to the more expensive campers. The good things were mostly cost. The bad was material thickness, zipper quality, rusted parts, hinge quality, poor finish............

I gave up on it a couple of years ago and set my sights on Lone Peak Overland. I've compared them side by side with the top campers at the last two off road expos. They didn't cut corners and I was able to talk to one of their designers at the last one. My background includes fabrication, mostly around vehicles. I grilled the crap out of the guy and walked away impressed. I was looking at their base model with one or two adds and was going to build the rest myself. The price came out to a little over a China camper and almost half the cost of a big name brand. This was comparing like outfitted campers.
The also have an owners web site and I was able to read about ones that were a few years old.

Yeah, I have looked at Lone Peak and like them a lot. If they had a full popup, especially hard side, I would be all over it. Hiatus is the closest US brand that I have found but there's lots of talk on forums about the quality not being great.