Cheap LENOVO S856 5.5" HD Quad Core 8GB Android Smartphone £59.99 ?

I have recently bought one of these S856 Lenovo's and have it activated with Cricket in the US. They are great for the money, but have a couple of caveats that anyone considering buying them should be aware of. First: despite the fact that they come with an S.D. card slot advertised as capable of accepting up to 32 Gb SD cards, the reality is that many of these S856's (or maybe even all of them as far as I know) will not recognize ANY sd card that you insert, rendering the external storage feature completely useless. From what I've read, this issue is a result of some flaw in the Kitkat 4.4.2 android os, but I couldn't verify it, as the phones do not have anyone on the XDA development community bothering with creating improved operating systems (ROMs) as of yet.
And the other thing is that anyone who purchases on of these had better be ok with a little bit of chinese
lettering appearing in some of the apps, as these are chinese phones (at least the inexpensive ones on ebay are)
Anyway, tl;dr, I know. The bottom line is that you can easily buy them and have them ship to elsewhere than Great Britain, here are the exceptions:

Item location: Kwun Tong,Kowloon, Hong Kong
Shipping to: Worldwide
Excludes: Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Iceland, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, San Marino, Serbia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Switzerland, Ukraine, Vatican City State, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), French Guiana, China

They just don't like people from those countries