If you bought a flash memory item from any of these eBay sellers: dankingdan336 – king-size-smoke-stop – mabelpost – heather.y – marty28645 – wewex777 – yorktrader 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
About No Returns:
dankingdan336 – United States
32GB MICRO SD SCHC TF CARD W/ADAPTER FREE SHIPPING!!
king-size-smoke-stop – United States
32GB Mini SD SDHC Memory Card
mabelpost – United States
32gb MICRO SD MEMORY CARD WITH SD ADAPTER
heather.y – United States
Kingston 32GB Micro SD Memory Card w/Adapter
marty28645 – United States
32 GB Kingston Micro SD Card, refurbished in package
wewex777 – United States
Lot of (10) Sandisk 32GB MICRO SD Memory Card’s Class 4
yorktrader – United States
32 GB MICRO SD CARD + ADAPTER
Fake 32GB SD SDHC And MicroSD Cards On eBay. The Sale Of Fake Memory Cards Increasing on eBay.
Kingston read:
Kingston Technologies Offers Help To eBay Victims Frauded With Counterfeit Flash Memory
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.
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?