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Beware of Fake USB Flash Drives on eBay

March 7, 2006 by debbie T | Computers • Internet

Been hearing news of unscrupulous Ebay dealers selling fake USB flash drives. In the US, the drives are already pretty cheap. I just picked up a 512mb for $15 and a 1 gb for under $35.

Take a look at the Digg story for more details and also another story on the Australian Ebay reviews site for some tips on how to spot a counterfeit drive.

Beware of Fake USB Flash Drives on eBay

There are 7 comments

  1. Yeah! Already ben burnt by those sellers based in Hong kong and China central.Some of them are will ing to reverse the transaction though(if you claim through paypal its safer).Yet others are still living in a make belief world denying complicity about it. Check out the following site (www.toolhaus.org) where you can enter a sellers name and it gives you a complete list of ALL the negative feedback of the seller. Here’s a list of sellers with fake sized drives in stock :

    digimp4 misumoshi i.celectronics hargaretchimee ztshop sarahsilver1003 bluetooth.depot topgps313

    We need to police and make it difficult for scams and fraud to succeed on ebay.Just my two cents worth.I hope it saves another potential victim.

    Comment by Ash on December 4th, 2007

  2. Great! thanks for contributing Ash!

    Comment by debbieT on December 4th, 2007

  3. yep well and truely had topgps313 sold me one and yes have managed to get full refund via paypal but this took nearly a month with some nasty emails from this seller, so please be aware.

    Comment by treboeminty on January 27th, 2008

  4. i have seen your site to late

    By means of these gone from I a complaint concerning this salesman I 8 gb usb have exclusively bought sticks and paid, the one which I for friends and knowledge have bought its meanwhile all after control by means of a test progr for usb sticks prove to be that it is no 8gb, it am at the most 4 gb hacked to 8 gb, I have for 8gb paid, thus this swindle is, I have them already div grind gemaild and payment asked but krijg no answer on my mails gladly your aid in this question Gr Charles….

    Comment by charles on January 30th, 2008

  5. i have send it to the fbi

    Comment by charles on January 30th, 2008

  6. hahah, just check the below link, after years and years the cheater is still working with no punishments!!!

    http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1100173852&tstart=0&mod=1212393671032 jjajaja

    date . june 2008

    when stupids will learn not to buy to the chinese!!hahha

    Comment by Kastanedowski on June 2nd, 2008

  7. Fake Flash listings are going down. Why? eBayers are fighting back. To see how please visit two sites they have set up:

    http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/

    http://ebay.dybteam.com/

    you can get a list of who is identified with fake flash there. It is the mug shot report.

    You can also report a fake at sosfakeflash and even get links to software for testing..

    Comment by kittyfireflash on October 21st, 2008

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