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Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-20 07:25:18
June 20 2010 05:17 GMT
#1
Hello. So I've been shopping on ebay quite a bit lately I was looking for a new USB flash drive and I found this:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/128-128GB-USB-FLASH-DRIVE-USB-2-0-PEN-STICK-MEMORY-/120585715690?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item1c1377ffea#ht_2873wt_1137

Nothing feels right about it. Crazy Chinese scams. Anyway, I was starting to wonder how far behind I had fallen behind in hardware prices.



"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
ella_guru
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada1741 Posts
June 20 2010 05:19 GMT
#2
No feedback =

Each day gets better : )
DemiSe
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
883 Posts
June 20 2010 05:21 GMT
#3
On June 20 2010 14:19 ella_guru wrote:
No feedback =

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1a_ikfUico

Yea, if there is no feedback, you take a huge risk of being scammed, sad to admit it but it's the truth.
Let's See Who's Stronger, Your Tricks, Or My Skills.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11554 Posts
June 20 2010 05:22 GMT
#4
It's too good to be true.
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
Mindcrime
Profile Joined July 2004
United States6899 Posts
June 20 2010 05:25 GMT
#5
may take 12-20 weeks to ship to Europe

looks legit to me

+ Show Spoiler +
you of friend
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-20 05:30:42
June 20 2010 05:29 GMT
#6
I'm not too familiar with how ebay protects you...

I did a little research, it seems like the 128GB drive may be a 2GB or 4GB chip that displays 128GB, so when you write more than say 4GB on it, it disappears... I assume most people don't notice until it's too late.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
ella_guru
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada1741 Posts
June 20 2010 05:49 GMT
#7
On June 20 2010 14:29 Djzapz wrote:
I'm not too familiar with how ebay protects you...


they dont
Each day gets better : )
hellokitty[hk]
Profile Joined June 2009
United States1309 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-20 05:50:47
June 20 2010 05:50 GMT
#8
Ahh yes, this is a common chinese scam.
They use the low capacity/defective flash chips that get caught by quality control (if they have any) and add in a special chip to display it as 128 or something.

But it will still act as a low quality low capacity flash drive just fine. You might even fit starcraft on it.
People are imbeciles, lucky thing god made cats.
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-20 05:51:04
June 20 2010 05:50 GMT
#9
If it's too good to be true, then it's probably not true...

That's the rule I go by when I buy things from strangers...
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
June 20 2010 05:51 GMT
#10
On June 20 2010 14:50 hellokitty[hk] wrote:
Ahh yes, this is a common chinese scam.
They use the low capacity/defective flash chips that get caught by quality control (if they have any) and add in a special chip to display it as 128 or something.

But it will still act as a low quality low capacity flash drive just fine. You might even fit starcraft on it.

http://feedback.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=sri2414&&sspagename=VIP:feedback&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller

Look at this guy's ratings... most people are completely oblivious to the fact that they got scammed -_-

Sad....
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
HighTimes
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Taiwan342 Posts
June 20 2010 05:53 GMT
#11
http://search.buy.yahoo.com.tw/search.php?hpp=gdsearch&p=kingston dt&catsel=&btn_srch=&z=0&subno=0

if it's not on here, it's not on sale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gvD9G5uDfo
Ixas
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
930 Posts
June 20 2010 06:15 GMT
#12
Bought something like this b4 but managed to flame the seller enough for me to get refunded.
Ixas.parkjiyeon.net
matt09
Profile Joined May 2010
United States21 Posts
June 20 2010 06:31 GMT
#13
its on paypal so you can get your money back if he jips you.
im a zerg guy.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
June 20 2010 06:34 GMT
#14
On June 20 2010 15:31 matt09 wrote:
its on paypal so you can get your money back if he jips you.

Yeah but it's almost certainly a ripoff... Won't go through the trouble for the 0.01% chance that it's somehow a legit drive.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
newvsoldschool
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
428 Posts
June 20 2010 07:00 GMT
#15
If you use Paypal to pay for it, they'lk have your back. I just had a dispute a few days ago worth $99.96, and Paypal gave me a refund a day after sending a complaint.
"I was so surprised when I first played StarCraft 2. I couldn't believe that such an easy game exists... I guess the best way to attract people these days is to make things easy and simple." -Midas, Brood War Progamer
knyttym
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States5797 Posts
June 20 2010 07:01 GMT
#16

Q: hi friend It is real 128 GB??
A: Friend: Yes, please believe, it be true 128 GB You of friend

Q: How long does your item take to ship to Croatia,Europe. Thank you
A: Friend: The item will be 15-20 days and arrive a gram the ground be second, thanks You of friend

Q: do you have this item in now?
A: Friend: Item already at me, at China of processing time need 2 days, send out the United States to need 10-15 days and thank you of letter! You of friend

Q: Does this come in the original, unopened packaging?
A: Friend: The item is first and it have never openned, please trust! You of friend

Q: hi how are you? tell me usd 28.99 is for a 128 128GB USB FLASH DRIVE USB 2.0 PEN STICK MEMORY whith ship to argentina incluid and paypal fee?? and other thing, the ship is by EMS or HKP( hong kong post) thanks
A: Friend: The letter thank you, the item be free to send out whole world, the sea transportation is in the HKP, item of deliver time be 15-20 days.Thanks


I think the seller might me Yoda
danl9rm
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States3111 Posts
June 20 2010 07:02 GMT
#17
are u wanting to get ripped off?

that's like those phone calls i get every week saying i've won a cruize.
"Science has so well established that the preborn baby in the womb is a living human being that most pro-choice activists have conceded the point. ..since the abortion proponents have lost the science argument, they are now advocating an existential one."
nOia.pod
Profile Joined May 2010
Hungary263 Posts
June 20 2010 07:14 GMT
#18
srsly

hi friend It is real 128 GB??
A: Friend: Yes, please believe, it be true 128 GB You of friend

Q: How long does your item take to ship to Croatia,Europe. Thank you
A: Friend: The item will be 15-20 days and arrive a gram the ground be second, thanks You of friend

Q: do you have this item in now?
A: Friend: Item already at me, at China of processing time need 2 days, send out the United States to need 10-15 days and thank you of letter! You of friend

Q: Does this come in the original, unopened packaging?
A: Friend: The item is first and it have never openned, please trust! You of friend

Q: hi how are you? tell me usd 28.99 is for a 128 128GB USB FLASH DRIVE USB 2.0 PEN STICK MEMORY whith ship to argentina incluid and paypal fee?? and other thing, the ship is by EMS or HKP( hong kong post) thanks
A: Friend: The letter thank you, the item be free to send out whole world, the sea transportation is in the HKP, item of deliver time be 15-20 days.Thanks


It's like a fcked up WoW gold seller.
You see? The Drone became an extractor!
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
June 20 2010 07:21 GMT
#19
Plenty of Chinese sellers have terrible English but still do good business.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
June 20 2010 07:31 GMT
#20
Ebay is bootleg heaven, but getting suckered into these kinds of sales never happened to me. Im too critical of these things.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
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