5 ms·

Bought a 64gb Kingston micro SD from ebay, and appeared fine at first but after running some checks was clearly fake. Reported it to ebay and the seller. Was re

by ljf 9y ago

Bought a 64gb Kingston micro SD from ebay, and appeared fine at first but after running some checks was clearly fake. Reported it to ebay and the seller. Was refunded instantly (and could keep the duff card) but the seller is still selling and ebay do not appear to have taken any action. I now realise that no-one would sell for 64gb card new for £12, so ALL the sellers there must be selling fakes - but ebay allows them to make new listings and others to sell. Sad thing is someone won't notice until they get back from their holiday and find their pictures aren't there. And by then the seller will have closed that account and opened a new one.

wtallis 9y ago
Last year I bought a genuine Samsung 128GB card for $25, so what you paid isn't that suspiciously low. Flash memory prices have gone up over the past year, but you probably still paid more than wholesale price for a real 64GB card.
- ikeboy 9y ago
  Wholesale price on these are very close to retail. And the Samsung you bought was probably from a deal and not regular price.
tooltalk 9y ago
This has been going on for almost two decades, or as long as eBay has been around. Back in the days, once you unknowingly bought a fake SD card, you not only had to prove that you had a fake, but also ship it back to China to get a refund! Even though the cheap fake memory card problem was widely known (there were selling in thousands), eBay didn't seem to care and quickly lost me as a customer.
- sowbug 9y ago
  I doubt it's a good idea to knowingly mail a counterfeit product. Crossing state lines, etc. If any seller or retailer asked you to do that today, I'd recommend refusing and instead offering to make it available for them to pick up via their choice of carrier.
ksk 9y ago
People seem to prefer to take the risk online, than shop at their local electronics stores, which have been in a constant decline. I guess I do too.

by ljf 9y ago

wtallis 9y ago

Last year I bought a genuine Samsung 128GB card for $25, so what you paid isn't that suspiciously low. Flash memory prices have gone up over the past year, but you probably still paid more than wholesale price for a real 64GB card.

ikeboy 9y ago
Wholesale price on these are very close to retail. And the Samsung you bought was probably from a deal and not regular price.

tooltalk 9y ago

This has been going on for almost two decades, or as long as eBay has been around. Back in the days, once you unknowingly bought a fake SD card, you not only had to prove that you had a fake, but also ship it back to China to get a refund! Even though the cheap fake memory card problem was widely known (there were selling in thousands), eBay didn't seem to care and quickly lost me as a customer.

sowbug 9y ago
I doubt it's a good idea to knowingly mail a counterfeit product. Crossing state lines, etc. If any seller or retailer asked you to do that today, I'd recommend refusing and instead offering to make it available for them to pick up via their choice of carrier.

ksk 9y ago

People seem to prefer to take the risk online, than shop at their local electronics stores, which have been in a constant decline. I guess I do too.