topic Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive in Computers & Electronics

Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

darry71 — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 04:44:52 GMT

I'm writing this as a warning for buyers. These are everywhere, the white 64gb toshiba flash drives. I just brought one and tested it, it only holds 4gb. Which is a noticable difference. I regret leaving a positive feedback for the guy as he asked for it when I asked for a refund. At that time I did not know it was a blatant counterfeit, just thought it was faulty. Since then I ran some tests. Will post test results shortly.

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

darry71 — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 06:04:22 GMT

After testing 7gb

The media is likely to be defective.
1012.4 MByte OK (2073586 sectors)
5.8 GByte DATA LOST (12297230 sectors)
Details:7 KByte overwritten (14 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
5.8 GByte corrupted (12297216 sectors)
7 KByte aliased memory (14 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000003f47e400
Expected: 0x000000003f47e400
Found: 0x000000003f4fe000
H2testw version 1.3

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

runninincircles — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:03:52 GMT

good luck getting your money back .. ebay will allow the seller to continue until they don't pay their bill .. you will be told by ebay/paypal to return your item via expensive tracked airmail postage to the seller and politely ask for an exchange or refund at ytheir descretion .. I have been down this road too and have seenliterally thousands of ebay buyers scammed via ebay china on this particular scam .. unfortunately ebay does such a great job of protecting scammers identities that I have no idea which seller you are referring to, but at a guess your seller is located in China, the land of free international postage and no ebay fees ..

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

cq_tech — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:31:42 GMT

All is not lost, however. If you've lodged a dispute with Paypal and it is not yet resolved (or you've yet to lodge a dispute), you need to ring them and tell them that under Australian law, it is illegal for you to send counterfeit items via Australia Post and you are therefore unable to return the fake drive to China as requested in order to receive a refund.

You may need to ask to speak with a supervisor, and they will probably require letterheaded documentary evidence from your local computer shop to prove that the drive is indeed counterfeit, but you won't be required to send the item back to China and will be asked to destroy and dispose of it, and you will still receive a full refund.

I don't know how much it cost and you may not consider it a worthwhile or economically viable exercise, but nevertheless I'd still be inclined to do it purely on principle, and to teach the seller that in Australia, at least, he will be forced to refund regardless, without getting his drive back to sell to some other poor unsuspecting buyer.

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

mckma04 — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:43:56 GMT

I got caught out with one of these Toshiba sticks. I lodged a counterfeit dispute and was refunded without having to return the item.

If you read the wording on the packaging carefully regarding the available size, it is clearly a fake. Toshiba would never put 64gb capacity in large letters on the front, and then tell you on the back that the usable capacity is only 4gb. I mentioned this fact in the dispute. Not sure if it helped.

The guy who I bought mine off sold heaps, and plenty of people left positive feedback without realising they were fake. There's still quite a few being sold now.

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

cq_tech — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:17:14 GMT

I would never purchase any sort of high-capacity memory device from a Chinese seller because the majority of them appear to be hacked fakes. Besides, there's very little cost advantage any more, as I just recently bought a 32Gb Toshiba Class 10 SD card from a local seller in Sydney for only $19.95 including postage, which is not much more than you'd pay from a Chinese seller these days.

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

mckma04 — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:28:20 GMT

I bought mine from a local seller here in Perth, and paid a reasonable price for that very reason. It was still a fake.

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

cq_tech — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:33:52 GMT

Well that's rather unfortunate but at least by having purchased locally it makes securing a refund much easier, and you also have the added advantage of being able to report the seller to the local authorities. Additionally, if you can't persuade Paypal to forgo the need to return the counterfeit item to the seller, it won't cost you an arm and a leg in postal charges to do so.

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

rogevibe — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:08:37 GMT

Hi , as this item is branded by a major oem with commercial interests in high value computer items , I would send both drive and data to them for appropriate action , note also the Seller details including address etc (via dispute data) and also Seller sales (to add gravity to issue from the named oem prospective), allude to not being happy and wondering whether their laptops are of the same quality

(Of course you know they did not manufacture those but is the thought conveyed to them of being type cast that should contribute to overcoming any corporate inertia)

Best if you have won a few to show is a chronic issue although being fake should be enough to galvanize the oem into action

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:04:56 GMT

To true, That's were I bought my 32gb Micro card Straight out of Sydney. Same price. put it into my New Windows Phone and till this day I have had no problems with it. I even wrote a blog on eBay about my experience dealing with the seller in Question.
I started selling Imported flash drives about 4 years ago, then all the (back then when 16gb was the largest drive) 16gb Flash drives were turning up with 800mb of available DATA space, Seller no longer registered. I lost over $80.00 in dud Flash drives and Dud Sellers

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:09:46 GMT

In Reply to: I regret leaving a positive feedback for the guy as he asked for it when I asked for a refund.
It is against eBay Policy for a seller to ask for Positive feedback in order to get your refund. You Should of reported the seller Before leaving your feedback, Plenty of lessons to be learnt here.

Re: Counterfeit 64gb toshiba flash drive

jason.campbellxx — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:21:17 GMT

so hard to watch out... waste of time

I feel for you