You are advised to read up on the new escalation by eBay Chinese sellers who are engaging in flash memory fraud. China eBay currently holds first place for fake memory selling followed by the United States. The reputation of SanDisk is being severely impacted by counterfeiters. Buy SanDisk products from authorized resellers or you risk the utimate price, loosing your photos and your memories.
If you bought a flash memory item from dasb56 – China eBay seller 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 their database to publish an offical 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
dasb56 – China
new 32GB Micro SD SDHC SD MicroSD Memory Card + SD Adapter $13.99 US 17 eBay Victims And Counting
Fake 32GB SD SDHC And MicroSD Cards On eBay. The Sale Of Fake Memory Cards Increasing on eBay.
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?
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.