Fake USB capacityon eBay

Took me a looong while to find this place.  Chinese manufacturers are very cunning.  They change the log file to fool properties on computer to exaggerate Gb numbers.  There is no way to check them until you've received it.  Sellers might or might not know, given the benefit of the doubt.  However, I thought new technology could upgrade the capacity and drop the price dramaticvally via mass production.  Anyway, my 128Gb turned out to be limited at 24 (? but that's what FakeFlashTest indicated after testing).  Although the drive works up to that limit and it's cheap enough, it's false advertising and disappointment for the buyers.  I don't know if eBay has any way to stop/control them.  

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It's not just the Chinese sellers. I remember years ago my friend complaining about the sellers of USB's lying about the capacity.
He eventually worked out that the cheaper they were the greater the disparity between the stated capacity and the actual
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This happened to me years ago. I had actually checked the seller's fb, but sometimes people don't realize that the real capacity is much lower and give positive fb when the USB drive arrives, they insert it and it shows a certain capacity (they don't immediately realize that they have been ripped off).

Anyway, I used a program to test my USB drive and sent the documentation/the results to PayPal (the seller kept finding excuses) and they decided in my favour. You do get your money back eventually, but of course it is an annoying experience.

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mariq, that's a good point to make in that so many buyers just don't realise when they receive an item that it does not have the capacity, quality or specifications as listed. It's particularly important with items related to data (which can include USB drives, phones, tablets and computers), and also with so-called designer items.

 

I cannot remember offhand how many times, for instance, I've told my father that when a Chinese eBay seller states "genuine leather", it's almost certainly going to be PU. I pre-empted his desire to get a men's leather bag by buying him one for his birthday from Maxwell Scott.

 

I gave some "don't buy a phone from an eBay Chinese seller" advice to an old family friend who is a little naรฏve, and ... he bought a supposed iPhone from an Asian fellow in an alley for a low price that was supposedly because he (the Asian fellow) could "get them really cheap". (I'm just guessing about the alley. It might have been a wider street, but it was an Asian-dominated suburb in Victoria.) I suppose I hardly need add that the phone was not a genuine Apple, and that the storage capacity was not as stated, with barely room to save a handful of photos and a few emails?

 

So... it's not just Chinese sellers on eBay who are selling these cheap fakes with a false storage capacity, but also anyone who is operating in Dodgy Deal World (which is a state of mind and behaviour rather than a place)!

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Absolutely! I had bought mine from an eBay shop based in Sydney and it was one of my first purchases, so I was a bit naive... I checked just a couple of weeks ago and that seller is not a registered seller any more, so I guess eBay realized they were scammers... They certainly got their USB drives from China, as they also had a lot of other cheap items, you know, the typical stuff you would buy from China or from Chinese shops in Australia.

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