Scambay
Buyer Beware! I just bought a mini SD card off of eBay for my new cell phone the other day only to find out that it’s a counterfeit! They had me fooled–it looks exactly like an original, but apparently it’s some foney-bologna knock-off memory card. The branding/logos and everything are spot on. I was contacted by another user on eBay who told me that he got a fake card from the same seller I bought mine from. Sure enough, I checked the serial number with the manufacturer and they said it wasn’t in their database!
I tried to reformat the card (which was supposed to be 2GB) and it only held 1GB of data! I guess you get what you pay for from the lowest price seller on eBay. Next time I’ll have to be more careful, but who’d a thunk you’d get scammed from a user with >5000 (99%) positive feedback ratings.. Somebody did have a good point thogh.. once you have that many feedback ratings, that 1% of negative feedback could be up to 500 people! Don’t buy anything from eBay user ‘webd’!! We’re getting a small possie together and gonna nail this sucka! 😉 One guy’s already contact the FBI. Hopefully we can get this guy’s account suspended and put him out of business.
Here’s a picture of a real mini SD card (left) and the fake one I bought (right): (I accidently cropped off the right edge of the fake memory card.)
The major difference that I can see is just the spacing between the “2.0” and “GB” is way off. Other than that, the counterfeiters did a pretty good job copying the original.
September 10th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
Bummer.
It appears Amazon has 2 GB miniSD cards for about the same price as Ebay.
-ryan
September 11th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
What a #%##!!8!, Nail his caboose! FTC is a good one to report him to: ftc.gov and then hit complaint link. The guy that screwed with me is now behind bars in Portland OR, eating processed unidentifiable food by-products! Sic’im Rover!