Exposing Fake Flash Memory on eBay

Former eBay Flash Drive seller "FlashyMemory" talks about the USB Flash Memory scam prevalent on eBay.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• fake
• flash
• memory
• drives
• ebay
• hacked
• flashdrive

[kipper0407]

Hey My Friend

Thanks Alot For The Video

Ive just Bought Micro SD 32 GB Card from ebay for 30$

Few Days Ago

Ebay HAs Removed The Listing Allready (ive paid allready)

Even If This Microsd Card will Arraive

What Can I Do To Get My Money Back?!?

How Can i Proof This Is A Fake One To Paypal To recive my money back?

Thanks Alot...

KippeR

[flashymemory]

@kipper0407 Just file a case with eBay. Go to "My eBay" and then to the "Won" section on the left hand side. Once there you should see the transaction. You can click on "More Actions" to the right of that transaction and you will see a Resolve Problem function. Click that and file a case as "Item not as described".

[mazambulla]

hey i have a kingston 256 gb hard driver i buy it for 22 dollare and it work

[flashymemory]

@mazambulla lol, you're either one of the scammers attempting to lend credibility to your scams, or you haven't actually tried to fill the drive up. 256gb flash drive for $22? Lets use our heads, shall we?

[GryphonHall]

Hello there! I had just been hoodwinked with a fake 32 GB micro sdhc with a fake capacity. You know the story well, but what made me think that I was safe was because of the feedback rating (100% when I bought it, but now 99.2%) and the "powerseller" tag and icon. SanDisk doesn't deliver to my country (Australia) so I had no choice without waiting for them to enter our market perhaps months from now. How do I know the honest vendors from the cheats?

[flashymemory]

@GryphonHall Honestly I wouldn't even bother buying flash drives, or any memory drive (SD cards, etc) on eBay anymore. It's overrun with scammers. I stopped selling those products awhile ago and so did many other honest sellers. Can't compete with the thieves unfortunately. People see those low prices and can't help themselves.

[precious786toronto]

fckin chinesse thieves. the funny thing is that they call them the upgrades. Upgrades to 16GB 32GB 64GB etc.. there is a website where they actually sell as wholesale, lot of 3 to lot of 100s and i was reading these ppls post and he/she actually mentioned " 2GB actuall memory but upgraded to 32GB" and the title of the ad was "Sony 32 GB Flash drive" im glad i read all the comments and didn't buy 10 lots of these things.

[grafophone]

Package too was hacked. Under a grey sticker where 16 gig was writen, peeling it away let show 2 Gig. Learning more about fake cards, I could compare a genuine label vs fake. Transcend has a rainbow at top, color fade gently on real, but poorly on fake. Lock button is white on fake but yellow on real. To me, from a bad experience that was buying this card, it became OK cause I've been learning since 3 days ago when flash card arrived home. Friends, read about fake cards, and be anti-fake fan!!!

[grafophone]

I was a lucky one to get refund. I test card as soon as I got it by ''feedind'' stuff in it. 16 Gig CLASS10 was pretty slow writing. Then I saw very few data were loaded, rest gone in the twilight zone. I've then contact seller, who answered me 9 hours later - 12 hours delay-. He said he was sorry and ready to refund. After few e-mail he realy dit it. Now, how can I say it's fake? Searching about fake cards I discovered H2testw software. Everyone should get it and it's FREE (a must). Read next.

[worth401]

lol oh man ,how do u even make money buying wholesales at 20 a peice.Thats only 14 bucks.I hope you sell like 20 a month

[Rickygt07]

I buy these things at bestbuy so if anything i can just return it.

[namine1293]

And this could be one of the reasons "i am extremely terrified of chinese people" is one of the most searched phrases on google

[namine1293]

Theses Chinese people did this to me too. It was a Datatraveler 200. I use flash drives to transport data from my computer to my xbox 360, I purchased this drive simply because I'd like to have a larger flash drive. I wasn't sure what was wrong since it was showing the free space on my computer, but when I placed it in my xbox, it showed me the actual capacity and stated the device was not configured properly. That's when I knew it was a bogus drive.

[namine1293]

@Kingnothing8585 You stated Amazon was the same. Did you get the product you were reffering to on eBay or Amazon? I'm just couriuos, because I got ripped by Chinese people on eBay. I had a tad more trust in Amazon.