If you bought a flash memory item from any of these eBay sellers: chenyefeng2010 – 2011simchen – rufus43ss – heberl2608 – trainsland you are advised to test item(s) immediately for advertised capacity. Read: H2testw 1.4 – Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives . You may have purchased a fake flash memory product.
If your memory item fails testing report immediately to SOSFakeFlash . If your eBay seller is deregistered from eBay, it is urgent you report in to SOSFakeFlash. If you do not, they will not be able to investigate and to record in the their database to publish an official alert listing all items sold. eBay is suspending fake flash memory sellers to avoid buyers leaving feedback or recording the truth.
Never use any flash memory item without testing for capacity. If you purchased a fake you could lose your files and data. Read: Why Is Fake Flash Memory So Dangerous?
Please see Validation Memory links for brand names and flash nand memory chip decoding. Reminder, Gb is Gigabits, not Gigabytes. 8 bits is 1 byte. You must divide by 8, if manufacturer lists size as Gb. Exercise care in disassembly of your item to decode.
If you need help and information on eBay read:
Check your eBay Sellers feedback, type in the id: http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs
chenyefeng2010 – China
32GB Micro Mini SD SDHC Memory Card 32 GB @##
2011simchen – Malaysia
32 GB Micro SDHC Memory Card with SD Adapter
rufus43ss – Hong Kong
32G™32GB™Micro™SD™SDHC™TF™MicroSD™Memory™Card™+ADAPTER
heberl2608 – Canada
32 GB™ Micro SDHC™ Memory Card with ™SD Adapter
trainsland – United States
32GB SD SDHC card 32G Memory Flash Secure Digital Card
Published In 2008 – Buyers Are Not Getting The Message. Cnet Asia: Fake memory cards demystified Read this article and leave your message!
SanDisk: Contact Technical Support for assistence. To report confirmed fakes (counterfeits), you can send an email to brandprotection@sandisk.com with the seller id and ebay items numbers attention SanDisk B.P. Director.
Kingston read:
Kingston Technologies Offers Help To eBay Victims Frauded With Counterfeit Flash Memory
Generic Memory Cards
See this video by CollectionReviewer.
Ebay watchdog A warning to ebay users on fakes and poor paypal protection services. Fake Memory Cards On eBay.
Note: eBay rules changed November 2010.
See this video by officerdown.
Fake Sandisk SD card from China
He compares a genuine Sandisk SD card with a fake from China along with a generic SD memory card. Includes camera shot rate comparision and what happens if you have a fake. Is this happening to you?