DON'T LEAVE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON THE PEN DRIVE YOU BOUGHT ON EBAY WITHOUT READING THIS.
Ebay is a wonderful global world and I hope I'm not making you think that you shouldn't buy there or that everything chinese is bad.
now my story and advice:
I needed a usb flash memory for easly share information between computers. I was looking on ebay and found out some really cheap and nice ones with 4 GB memory and good writing speed for around $12 USD.
The user had a 100% positive feedback with lot of buyers saying the product was good and fast delivery.
So I bought one and 7 days later it was in my home ( and I live a far away from china). I formated it on windows xp and tryed it with some small files (mistake 1) . Every thing was fine so I gave a positive feedback to the user (mistake 2).
A few days later when storing some big files and reading them they appeared as corrupted.
I searched for this problem and found a software - iformat .
It fix and formats your usb flash drive to its original size. The pen drive problems were fixed but it had only 462 MB.
Some google search show I'm not the first to have this problem:
"There was a taiwaness news article which suggested that the controller provider (ie, the IC design house) helped flash card/USB flash drive manufacturers in China to cheat the size":
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitimes.com.tw%2Fn%2Farticle.asp%3Fid%3D0000050613_B6TLI47WP40NCFW4Q9HFB&langpair=zh%7Cen&hl=pt-BR&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
TO STOP THIS AND AVOID THIS PROBLEM PLEASE FORMAT YOUR PEN DRIVE WITH IFORMAT BEFORE LEAVING A POSITIVE FEEDBACK.
4 comentários:
Same problem here.
Bought an "8gb flash drive" from seller manny7008. I checked his feedback before buying and it was close to 100%, with more than 400 feedbacks.
It turns out ALL these people left feedback without even trying the pendrive, which is a 256 megabytes drive hacked to look like it's 8Gb.
DO NOT BUY FROM SELLER MANNY7008
All the pen drives like this:
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7134/8f802ds4.jpg
This
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/9610/d5402ux8.jpg
or this
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5229/2c8c2xk0.jpg
ARE FAKE!!!!!
I don't know how ebay don't close all this accounts! This is FRAUD!
Do not buy from: expert_exports and i.c_electronics (there are so many others)
BTW, if you want REAL pen drives @ good price check: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/FlashMan852
Hi, what a lot of people don't realise that this problem isn't just affecting the end consumer, its also wreaking havoc on small business who sell flash memory products. Small businesses like mine (GetITinaFlash.com) are also often victims of this "upgrading" process. As a result, I personally have to test and verify each drive we purchase before reselling in order to protect our reputation. Due to this extra handling and time, our prices go up! Meanwhile the "Fake" sellers can undercut us even more, by simply using smaller and smaller memory chips! If you'd like to help fight against this growing epidemic on ebay, I'd recommend visiting http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/ or any of the Franken Flash Projects pages.
I have also written a guide on testing drives http://www.getitinaflash.com/is-it-fake.php which may be of use if you think you have been a victim!
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