Nd16 filter

At £6, you can afford to give it a whirl - it might be utter crap, but if you take a picture of a white card first, then you can balance out the colour cast in PP, by using it to set your white point.
Alternatively, pony up the extra, and grab a Hitech one from eBay for £21 delivered, from Crooked Image, iirc.
Chances are the one on Amazon is the same £1.60 ones you'll see with free delivery from a China-based seller.
If you can wait, you'll waste even less money, but the consensus is these filters are quite poor.
Even if it cost £1 to return the Amazon one, you're still better off by 60p, and get to assess it sooner, since you'll throw the China direct one in the bin, if it was absolutely dire.
So with nothing to show for the amount spent, £1 is minimal risk to gauge whether it's useable or not.
 
It depends what you are looking for from a filter. As a newby I wanted to try one and see if it was something I could use. As I like photographing rivers I decided to buy a cheap one on ebay.

For £9.99 on ebay I got the following item

77mm Variable ND Filter Neutral Density ND2 ND16 to ND400


Now I didnt expect masterpiece photos - Im still learning but yesterday used it for the first time and was very impressed with it across the range of settings, my river shots had a lovely silky feel to them, what I had been hoping for. Ok there was a slight blue cast across the photo but that was easily remedied in processing.

I know this isnt a cokin filter but my point is that you dont have to spend a fortune to get something which just might achieve what you hope from it.

I most certainly will use the filter a lot more now, and who knows in time when I get more proficient with my shots I might bite the bullet and spend a lot of money on an expensive named one - but for now this cheap filter does the job for what I want.
 
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