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Don't be an idiot like I was.
Before you buy any micro SD cards on eBay, make sure the seller is *not* listed on this website:
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/
In fact, if any mods are listening, could you please pin this thread? I know some of the forums for other devices have threads on this subject, but if they sink, nobody will get the warning.
Thanks.
or you could just avoid buying flash from ebay all together.
Whatever works.
I was wandering around my hometown yesterday pricing 16GB cards. The cheapest price in a shop was EU80 -- nearly $100.
I believe there are reputable sellers on ebay selling for less than half that.
peadarog said:
Whatever works.
I was wandering around my hometown yesterday pricing 16GB cards. The cheapest price in a shop was EU80 -- nearly $100.
I believe there are reputable sellers on ebay selling for less than half that.
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I got my 16gb card for 2.50$
That's great, but be careful. The biggest scam out there is 2 and 4gb cards programmed to look like 16gb to your operating system. The only way to test them is with a free utility called h2testw.
Hopefully your card is a good one. Mine turned out to be 2gb.
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There are a lot of Kingston 32GB microsd cards being sold out of the US via Ebay for $199+, and they're all fake. Only Sandisk have released the 32GB versions.
Be warned..
For those in the US, just buy from Newegg. I got 3 16 GB microSD cards for $41 apiece.
you can also tell by filling up the card
if it doesn't go past 2gb, it's not a 16gb card
MaximReapage said:
For those in the US, just buy from Newegg. I got 3 16 GB microSD cards for $41 apiece.
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buy these things from a reputable company to avoid headaches
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Newegg was selling Fake Intel processors only a few weeks back. No one can be trusted
Amazon for flash
I prefer to buy from Amazon as they tend to shift the fake sellers off the marketplace quickly.. just bought a 16gb micro for £21.00
Jamie
jamiefly said:
I prefer to buy from Amazon as they tend to shift the fake sellers off the marketplace quickly.. just bought a 16gb micro for £21.00
Jamie
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5 week delivery though verb i have just checked my 16gb from ebay and it was fake paypal claim gone in cheers op
Better to wait...
I've not touched eBay memory cards since I bought a Sony from a 'trusted' seller. Turned out to be a cheap knock off. I had my money back in a day after suggesting to the seller that I'd be contacting Sony's fraud investigations team if I didn't get prompt action.
Then I contacted them anyway
cheetah2k said:
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Newegg was selling Fake Intel processors only a few weeks back. No one can be trusted
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They "Weren't just Selling them".
Their supplier sent them a batch of fake CPUs. Once new-egg discovered the error, they refunded money and offered discounts and also dropped the supplier.
It was clearly an accident.
cheetah2k said:
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Newegg was selling Fake Intel processors only a few weeks back. No one can be trusted
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wth. You sound like you work for a certain political spin machine.
Clearly, anyone with half a brain, can see that Newegg expediently rectified the situation. If anything, this situation with the bunk processors would put Newegg in an even more trustworthy position than they were prior to this unfortunate incident.
i recommend newegg we have 4 a-data 16gb class 6 cards from them.. work great.. stay away from 16gb sandisk cards.. i have had 5 failures with these (their 8gb cards work fine though)
peadarog said:
Don't be an idiot like I was.
Before you buy any micro SD cards on eBay, make sure the seller is *not* listed on this website:
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/
In fact, if any mods are listening, could you please pin this thread? I know some of the forums for other devices have threads on this subject, but if they sink, nobody will get the warning.
Thanks.
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I bought two Sandisk 16gb Class 6 cards for £40 each from a Asian in Canada. When I received, I benchmarked them & found that they didn't even perform at a class 2 level.
I put on a claim on ebay & contacted seller. The seller said that there are alot of fakes on ebay & that I has sold thousand in his store without any complaints. I got a full refund.
I bought a Genuine Team 16GB Microsd Class 6 from another seller ebay id: taiwanlien. I have benchmarked it and everything.
If anybody does want to buy memory from ebay buy it from this seller taiwanlien.
Thanks
JAW$
peadarog said:
Don't be an idiot like I was.
Before you buy any micro SD cards on eBay, make sure the seller is *not* listed on this website:
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/
In fact, if any mods are listening, could you please pin this thread? I know some of the forums for other devices have threads on this subject, but if they sink, nobody will get the warning.
Thanks.
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I bought two Sandisk 16gb Class 6 cards for £40 each from a Asian in Canada. When I received them I benchmarked them & found that they didn't even perform at a class 2.
I put on a claim on ebay & contacted seller. The seller said that there are alot of fakes on ebay & that I has sold thousand in his store without any complaints. I got a full refund.
I bought a Genuine Team 16GB Microsd Class 6 from another seller ebay id: taiwanlien. I have benchmarked it and everything.
If anybody does want to buy memory from ebay buy it from this seller taiwanlien.
Thanks
JAW$
Hey there,
Im looking on ebay to buy a 32microsd card but not sure which to get some say TF and some dont, which do you guys recomend for this phone
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I'VE bought on ebay twice, Sandisk SD and MicroSD, and both times they proved to be counterfeit - the crazier part was, they looked real - fortunately sandisk has a page on their web showing the idiosyncrasies to the counterfeit cards out there
something like that i'd suggest buying from a reputable dealer like newegg.com etc
just a suggestion
and there's a thread already started on this topic with some interesting info in it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=693445
What Larry said; don't buy memory from ebay, it's too easy to counterfeit and you have no idea what you are getting.
is that not illegal?
to sell something that isnt advertised that way
yes it's illegal, but there are so many folks doing it it's impossible (i assume) to arrest them all
both of the sellers i bought from had real high "positive feedback" on ebay (one had 10,000+ positive)
I bought my 32gb sandisk from ebay, here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270601021356&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
yours might be legit but check this thread
http://communities.sandisk.com/sandisk/board/message?board.id=ultra2&message.id=28
forget whether it was on ebay or on sandisk's site but there are so many fakes, one of the two sites had photos showing legit ones side by side with fakes so you could see the subtle printing differences on the cards
the two i got would work, but were slow as hell writing
Hy guys, I dont have much experience in micro sdhc. Do you think this is genuine and a good buy?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8GB-Sandisk-C...AsAccessories_MemoryCards&hash=item3a6086a419
Also this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8GB-Micro-SD-...aphy_MemoryCardReaders_RL&hash=item255e2be5e4
Do you have any advise, what would you recommend? Thank you
For a change they both look good. Both have good feedback and you have a UK address for both if anything goes wrong.
i don't think anyone will bother wasting time faking 8 GB cards, they are so small
the only time you want to be sure is when you buy 32 GB
even 16 GB are very common now
I heard good things about SanDisk but cant find for samsung. The problem is that on webpage of San Disk I cant find a card that looks like the one hes selling so a questiond is it genuine.
Both sellers are 'eBay Top-rated seller', my opinion is that the card is genuine.
Just find you local computer store and buy the SD card from them
I don't recommend buying memory cards from eBay unless from reputable seller; too many scams
looks like a genuine and the seller has a good rating
I do think this is genuine
Igor 3 said:
Hy guys, I dont have much experience in micro sdhc. Do you think this is genuine and a good buy?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8GB-Sandisk-C...AsAccessories_MemoryCards&hash=item3a6086a419
Also this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8GB-Micro-SD-...aphy_MemoryCardReaders_RL&hash=item255e2be5e4
Do you have any advise, what would you recommend? Thank you
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Not sure about the Samsung one as I've never actually seen them in a retail outlet, but the SanDisk one looks like the real deal, it's exactly the same as my own, and the packaging is the same as what's currently in the shops here. I'd recommend it, even though it's a class 4 I got read speeds of 16 and write speeds of 11 with mine.
Here's a link to the site I usually buy from, probably not as cheap as UK one's but occasionaly they do some crazy special offers,
http://www.memoryc.ie/
Still looking for a SanDisk CL4 32GB, thanks to supercurio I have to re-rip everything to FLAC now =)
better buy a 16GB card
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-16G...P06K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303786120&sr=8-1
or 32 GB
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDS...WHN0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303786199&sr=8-1
samsung cards are starting to show up, here is one i got from china yesterday,
read speed at 14-16mb/s
write speed at 13mb/s
class 6 high speed, the normal speed version does not state the plus logo.
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This is pretty good value if anyone's looking for a 16GB Class 10
http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/...ct.html?source=9593&_$ja=tsid:11853|prd:60749
i wouldnt buy microsd from ebay. hard to tell which is real and fake.
Hi, i just had a (bad?) idea, since there is a lot of fake micro sd card on ebay and people are being scammed, i were wondering how paypal are handling the fake claims? Do they actually refund you the cards? Or do they need you to send the fake card back? Were just wondering if it would be possible to actually buy a 32gb fake card (which should be around4/8gb?) and actually having a total refund for it since it is not as advertised? (free fake 32gb SD?) Yeah, i know it sounds crazy but scamming a scammer is it so bad?
So were just wondering to the ones who actually got scammed and filed a claim... Is it such a pain in the butt or could it actually be done?
Well just a though i had...
hey there,
do you think thats fake : h t t p : / / cgi.ebay.co.uk/32GB-MEMORETTE-MICRO-SD-SDHC-CARD-CLASS-10-FREE-Adapter-/230588940502?pt=UK_AudioTVElectronics_PDAsAccessories_MemoryCards&hash=item35b02c00d6#ht_4977wt_717
(remove the spaces)
i wish it is not fake.
The fake micro sd card scam works on ebay because in almost every case it'll cost more for the buyer to send the card back then what they paid for it. Paypal won't refund your money until you have proof the item was received by the seller. This usually means tracking and signature is required when you ship it back. Most of these fake sellers are from china or hong kong which with the tracking/signature requirements ends up costing $20+ which you don't get back when you get you're refund.
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I've had experience of fake SD cards bought on ebay.
I was cought myself about 4 years ago, it took ages and eventually I got a full refund and got to keep the card.
Recently a couple of friends had the same problem, this time both got full refunds almost immediately.
I was given the task of trying to reformat to a usable state...
However unlike fake usb memory, which can be reformatted quite easily, with freely available software, SD cards seem to be practically impossible to reformat correctly.
I have on "16 GB" card that I have managed to use as 512MB, but even that causes arror and data loss at random points.
I bought a card that turned out to fake, so I contacted the seller and threatened to report them to ebay and paypal and I got a refund. Kept the card too.
don't even bother with ebay to anyone looking at this thread. I just found out that my card is actually a 8gb card said to be 16gb (i believe they can resize it so the phone thinks its 16gb?) and once i passed 8gb nothing saves on my sd card, and I went back to get my refund but the user is no longer a member! lucky for me...
yup, here is another victim
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=843335
just a few post down
Paypal Australia requires that the item be returned with an online tracking number. Minimum cost to China, $50.
The system seems to be set up specifically to penalise the victim.
After all, that way Paypal gets to keep their commission.
Goresh said:
Paypal Australia requires that the item be returned with an online tracking number. Minimum cost to China, $50.
The system seems to be set up specifically to penalise the victim.
After all, that way Paypal gets to keep their commission.
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As much as I dislike PayPal, it's really not set up to hurt the victim. Who would sell using PayPal when, in the event that someone simply "claims" that item is a fake or not as advertised, they get completely screwed over? I definitely would not be setting up an online business when each and every buyer I have can click a few buttons and receive a full refund and the product he purchased, coming straight out of my pocket.
It's not to rip off the buyers, but sometimes it's hard to please everyone.
Hmm I bought an 16 GB card on eBay but during the uploading of the data on it I noticed the card had already a name and some files on it...So it was not new at all!
A simple mail to the vendor was enough to receive another, new, card and a stamp to send the first card back...
The vendor had a spotless score...
I think you always take a risk while buying on eBay...
I found a great deal on a 64gb micro SDXD card on ebay for $13. The card works fine but is really only 32gb. Although disappointed, I didn't bother sending it back because $13 is still a lot cheaper than I can buy a 32gb micro SD card locally. However, after reading a number of posts it appears that the modify these to read like they are full capacity but begin overwriting data once they reach their real capacity. I see many for sale in the same white and blue packaging and won't buy one again. What amazes me is the high seller ratings these guys seem to have on Ebay.
Paid 80 bucks for this from amazon about a month ago. 40 bucks after i used my rewards. What do u guys think? REAL OR FAKE? Looks official to me. Came from China.
fake. real one comes with an SD adapter which is grey. at least the ones ive seen anyway.
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fake. real one comes with an SD adapter which is grey. at least the ones ive seen anyway.
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They said they are sending me the adaptor seporatly. Not sure why. Here is the email i got through them from amazon.
Hello There My Friend, I Wish that everything is great and You Are Okay, Be Noted that You will get 2 Shipments or 2 Package the first will have the SAMSUNG Micro SD 128gb And the Second will have the Adapter for the SD, If You face any problem with our items Just let us know here and we will solve any problem according to your wish and as you like, Thank you And best wishes!
good to know youre getting a fake adapter with your fake card lol.
It could be that a version of this is sold overseas, which does not include the sd card adapter.
However, what does worry me is the text for '128' looks slightly off imo. You can notice it more with the '2', but it seems a little stretched or elongated vertically.
I would try some sd card benchmarks
Find out easily... http://www.heise.de/download/h2testw.html
Looks fake. I purchased the same card from Amazon (ships & sold by Amazon) and it came with the adapter. If it was shipped from a third party it more then likely is fake.
Plus, why would your model number be 16D when it's a 128GB card?
Here's the one I got:
YEAHP, it's fake lolol. Time to call amazon and my credit card.
Money credited back to my account including my points. Knew amazon would back me up as well as my credit card, so i took a shot at it.
I never, ever buy flash memory from amazon or ebay... 99% of them are fake. You are pretty much stuck buying from authorized resellers as there are so many fakes you are more likely to get a fake one than not (most people just don't know it yet because they didn't hit the upper limit of the actual storage capacity which has been faked).
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Money credited back to my account including my points. Knew amazon would back me up as well as my credit card, so i took a shot at it.
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Just make sure if you purchase anything from Amazon that it says "Ships & Sold by Amazon" and you should be fine.
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Just make sure if you purchase anything from Amazon that it says "Ships & Sold by Amazon" and you should be fine.
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I always buy like that...but i did take a shot knowing amazon had me just incase. When i was ordering it i knew it was gunna be fake but again...i took a shot