A dozen of years ago in China you could find 128GB flash drives while in Europe the max capacity you could find were 4GB... those actually were reprogrammed 256MB flash drives the same way to show a huge capacity... it’s an old trick!
@samantha tang Because they can sell it for a much higher price than the space it actually has. And as mentioned in the video, by the time they realize there is something wrong with the drive it is already too late. Scum of the earth is what they are.
As a former eBay employee, while 93 sounds pretty good, anything under 98 or 99 percent positive feedback is a terrible seller. Particularly when looking at counterfeits and scams.
Plus they only had like 10 reviews. If they had like 1000 reviews, then it would be like 50% positive reviews, but I guess they would be kicked off EBay before that happens.
I would also take the time to look at the bad reviews. I just got a great deal on a used smart phone for around $9 (USD). I've been pretty hard pressed to find anything really wrong with it besides being older and having minor superficial scratches, it was being sold as junk because of some camera problem, but I have been able to use the camera for photos and videos. The bad reviews for that seller were along the lines of "whoops I clicked bad review" and "some functions on this phone I bought as "junk" don't work", or the seller not responding fast enough to the buyer (even though it is clearly stated on the item pages because of work there may be delays in communications). Some people are overly picky and/or stupid and leave bad reviews for unjustified reasons.
I think they are connected to a tech support company, and so they have a lot of data to store. They have other videos on needing to upgrade their servers
I have named and shamed ebayers and then lawyers threatened me. Seems you have a magic touch I never acquired If I show fake products on RU-vid the videos are now demonetized, sadly the site sux now
@@rob6508 He would only get scammed if he thought he was really getting a 1 TB card. He knew it wasn't going to pencil out to 1 TB. This is an educational video.
To @"iwin" you statement is not really correct (assuming u mean there'd be so much packed into such a small space that it would implode upon itself) is not really a valid concern considering the current stated capacity of the "SD" design specs for "sdxc" a maximum capacity of 2 TB for Micro and regular size (but not mini tho I believe, though I could be wrong since I haven't looked in a while, that they only have the sdHC cap on data size and there are not xc in mini which would make sense because virtually zero currently produced products use mini sds- theyre all micro or full size and even not alot of older ones which most arnt even comparable with SDHC) is 2TB. (Good luck finding them on the market yet tho.)
SanDisk's will read at 170 MB/s, write at 90. It's probably going to be a million dollars. Unfortunately, it seems MicroSD is going the way of the dodo on phones.
I feel like Linus doesn’t get enough credit for his presenting skills. He’s walking around, looking away from the camera/teleprompter, and still manages to do a really good job delivering information.
Another reason they have positive reviews is damage control. I've bought junk off chinese sellers on Ebay before and if you leave a negative review they immediately start hounding you about how it said in the description you're not allowed to leave negative feedback without contacting them first then they start offering you money back and free replacements until eventually they're basically offering money to leave positive feedback ( I let my negative feedback stand)
I experienced this in person while I was on a ship in Shanghai. Talked to a vendor who was selling electronics and asked for an external hard drive. He handed me a "1TB Toshiba Canvio?" and I tested it like you did. Files transferred and opened no corruption until a week later. I opened the case and there was no HDD, but instead 2 bolts and a small flash drive hot glued on one side of the case... At least they added the bolts for weight lol
@@wds3222 I actually got a couple legitimate Razer items and SanDisk Drive for about 75% of the US market at the time. To be fair the drive worked when I tested it.
@@mattholmes8214 I mean ofc they will have some legit stuff over there LOL There is no such a thing as 100% for anything but dont u think its a pain in the ass that u need to be extra careful on everything u bought over there?
Some of these product descriptions are absolutely hilarious, I remember one of them said "new upgraded SD card capacity has been expanded and upgraded from original". When I asked the seller what that meant, they said that they were able to "increase the onboard storage capacity" of these cards. Suspicious...
THE TROUBLE WITH SOME FEED BACK IS people do it even before thoroughly checking things out , so they give feed back as positive and later on find out the stuff actually is bad , others see all the positive feed back and keep ordering things based on it.
In even more words: Buy fake SD card, test for scam, report buyer and invoke Ebay's buyer protection, get your money refunded and a free lower capacity SD card.
I thought i was so lucky when i found one of these memory cards and decided to copy all of my school works on it and it left sleepless nights for a week!
As an ex ebay employee... The reason they have positive feedback over a year is because they shilled it. Ebay checks for this but over a shorter timeframe. Also, they might have made a few genuine sales. However you can be certain that any feedback received for that item is either fake or someone who bought it, copied a small file on it and then left feedback. To be fair, anyone who bought that probably isn't tech savvy enough to realise it's a scam until too late.
"To be fair, anyone who bought that probably isn't tech savvy enough to realise it's a scam until too late." yeah, that's the bottom line, the people who would leave negative feedback for a product like this are by and large savvy enough not to buy it in the first place. It takes a *lot* of photos or apps or consumer quality video to fill up 32GB.
How about the fact that you must wait 7 days from the time it shows the item as delivered before you can leave Not positive feedback on ebay which by that point most people forget about it
As an ex-ebay employee.. Maybe you could also tell why you wouldn't just keep track of obvious scams? (e.g. Microsd cards that cannot exist?) Machine learning could be taught to recognize a lot of stuff too.
@@HoudiniFontmeister the idea with that is to give the seller time to resolve the difficulties. So if something breaks in shipping for example you contact them and the seller ships a new one. You do get prompted to leave feedback later though.
@@rkan2 they do. They remove millions and millions a year. However it looks for obvious risks rather than combos. So it'll check low feedback sellers with higher worth items. Branded stuff and obviously illegal stuff. Now it's been 4 years since I worked there so they've probably improved it. However there's over a billion items on ebay every month. Some will get through.
Bought a Huwei one with the exact same packaging and 32 gb actual storage! Hoping to get a refund... which could make it a free 32 gb sd card. Fingers crossed.
Many scammers offers you, when you report them some problems with any ítem, a full refund if you just don't report any problem to eBay and give them a positive vote. Most people try to avoid waiting time for eBay and PayPal solve a dispute.
I've had some scammer try and persuade me to not put a dispute in and they would sort it. Hell no, the time for them to be honest was when they sent it in the first place, they lost the trust as soon as they tried to scam someone. 😁
I actually bought one who was 32 GB for 4 dollars of deal extreme. xD expecting it would be fake and being able to try it. But It was real, the speeds were 60 mb/s to! :) I used it in my smartphone for 2 years, now my girlfriend is using it for storing music lol. So It can happen. :) Just don't buy the larger ones. 32 GB should be the max you buy.
Fun fact: if you connect the sdcard to your mobile, the mobile will recognize the correct size. 2nd fun fact: if you format the sdcard the sdcard in the mobile will remain the correct size.
Fun fact my phones read 118gb on my 128 cards and 220 on 256gb cards but when i pop em in my laptop boom it reads same as listed on sd with one exception a china knock off rated for 512gb my phones read as 400 my laptop well it dont match up soo the china is a dud
"remember kids, when you get a new memory device, max out its capacity with complete crap to make sure its real before the return window" is my personal takeaway as assuming just from the price you're getting scammed and paying more for one could be a demon in is own right.
Here is why people gave positive reviews: 1. Buy this fake product (preferably from Singapore) 2. Realise that it is not a 1TB drive but 32gigs or so 3. Take screenshots and pictures of the product and also ebay's description 4. Raise a dispute against seller on grounds of "item does not match the description", backed by ebay money back guarantee. 5. The seller will likely try to knock off the price but if you keep firmly answering his/her messages demanding a full refund he will eventually yield (1 to 2 weeks). 6. You get your money back in full and you get to keep the product unless seller pays the shipping back (which is absurdly expensive) 7. Reformat the drive (firmware) to match its actual size or use some other means to prevent the drive from overwriting. But even if you do get sub-par drives free this way it's easier just to get extra work and buy a legitimate drive from reliable sources. Even if you fix these drives it is possible that they are old and will not last long anyway.
@2ByQ this is very true, i would still give a crappy review even though they let me keep it. shady business methods, shitty customer service and crap product.
@@TheByQQ you will be amazed 99.9% of stupid people leave feedbacks JUST BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED THE GOODS (in Aliexpress, if you take the time, half of feedbacks are "LOOKS NICE, I STILL DIDN'T TRIED IT".........probably also 99% of people have no idea they are over-writing their own files multiple times.........they probably will think there was a problem with the file itself......because unless you use it to backup movies, how many pictures you need to take with your camera to reach 32GB of data?...probably they realize the scam months after they bought it, and by then, the seller either fly away, or they can't leave any feedback (eBay has 90 days I think, to reverse or edit or leave a feedback)
@@TheByQQ If you leave a negative review, they will often keep bothering you and annoying you until you change it to be positive, sometimes even offering you money just to get you to change it to positive.
I bought a 256GB SD card from Walmart last year that would corrupt data past 32GB. Wrote a review on the product listing which Walmart removed for "Legally sensitive information"
I'd guess the gap depends a little on the content. Some stuffs comes up faster than others. Scrap Wars for one was a week delay if I recall correctly. And the stream content show up the same time.
There are full time jobs in china that involves giving positive reviews to items on sites like taobao, aliexpress, ebay, etc. This is real, and they send out job offers through text without shame. They send these messages to random emails, and phone numbers in China to get people to sign up. I used to live in China and have received these messages before.
Nope, they r scams intended for people who r willing to earn "easy money". Actuall pro reviewers are non-exist due to algorithms that ban those folks from using taobao.
If you lives in china,you need to face it.There are jobs like leaving fake reviews and making fake transactions.Many online sellers on taobao.com needs that because it will give you a better ranking and if you are ranked,you can get on their front page.
The sale of sale numbers do exists, but there is no pro reviewers. Sellers usually send people big coupons via crowd-sourcing. Then a random ppl buy and no actuall goods is sent or more often sth cheap (e.g: a birck, not the Supreme branded ones) is sent. There is no pro reviewer simply because the reward is really few, just like how much u get when u use GoogleOpinionRewards.And those who connect sellers and reviewers make more money by giving out normal coupons, just like how u2bers do it. Actually it's really a shame that sometimes Chinese can't get real reviews from real customers.
花陽 小泉 What you describe does happen. Although most are for people who are interesting in earning quick bucks, my point is that these sellers really have no shame in committing fraud, and its not good for consumers who are not that versed in online shopping. They are not able to discern between whether something is a good deal or a scam. And I believe that’s something we can both agree on. I just wanted to say that so everyone knows that these kind of things do occur on a regular basis. The key is to caution everyone who is shopping at these sites to be extra careful.
He did say in the Video that it's more dependent on the Vendor, not the website. If you're buying from vendors you can trust (Directly from the maker, Amazon themselves, or a famous brand-name vendor) then you can buy from Amazon... or anywhere else for that matter.
I ALWAYS buy stuff like MicroSD cards directly from Amazon. Not from third-party Amazon sellers or from "Fulfilled by Amazon" sellers. Always check the buying options to know who you are buying from. BTW same applies to phones. Lots of refurb phones get re-sealed and sold as "new" by third party Amazon sellers.
I was after the Hakko soldering station and instantly I was surprised with the massive difference between the eBay 60GBP and Amazon cheapest at 120GBP. After some "youtube research" it becomes obvious, that those ones from eBay were just faked. All of them. Ever since, I do buy my memory cards on Amazon
You can con the seller out of his money if you buy it from Aliexpress and then test it. Then open a dispute and send the the screenshot of the result. 100% refund
Just imagine all those people out there putting them into their smartphones and loosing irreplaceable data such as videos and pictures they take. Their greed really hurts people.
*LOSING* Lose or losing refers to something that is lost or will be lost or will have lost. Loose or loosing is referred to as something that is released, is released, or will be released. Example: I let loose of my rope, I was losing my grip. Thusly after losing my grip, I had to let loose of my other rope so I could keep my balance.
People always forget the golden rule. If it looks too good to be, it probably is. Remember that the next time you're browsing tinder as well. No problem your welcome.
They are on Amazon too. last year I bought 2 "128GB" for 8 bucks each. I knew they were fake i just bought them for fun and re-partitioned them in command prompt. I'm surprised Linus didn't mention this, both his and one of my cards were labeled HC, a standard that's only good for 4-32gb. any more than 32gb needs the XC marking on it.
But why bother repartitioning a fake card? How long will it take it to swap a bit in the controller firmware and die with all your data in it? Also, they're usually small 8GB cards
@@konatadesuka Ya they were 8gb. I was interested to see what I actually get. I don't really use them, maybe to take a picture from a PC to a printer or something unimportant like that. Another thing I found funny was that the picture of the card on amazon was just a Sandisk card that was badly photo shopped. it had a slightly blurry spot where a logo would be, so I put the image into Photoshop and raised the contrast and a couple of pink spots became visible on the totally black card and those spots lined up with sandisk's logo
@@lolindirlink yep, used the clone stamp to get most of the Sandisk logo gone then put in white 128GB, and the card didn't even look the same as in the picture
@@peterpayne2219 what a lot of people don't realise is that Windows is 100% functional *forever* without any need to activate it. You only need to activate it if your conscience says so. But, if you're poor, you can't afford to have a conscience, lol 😛
@Anon 1 Actually those codes are scam, that can be blocked anyday. Second - there are free activators for windows. And third there is legal method to get license for free, which I've found and been using, but won't tell you cause I don't want them to close this "door" ;)
It's not just microSD cards, fake USB thumb drives or those with fancy cartoon rubber claddings that say 8/16/32GB (or maybe bigger) that turn out to be just 4GB or less and are not at all reliable are all over Asia. They're a complete waste of money. Avoid like the plague.
0:54 Who do I feel more sorry for... The guy that saw it in person and had to record it or the guy that had to see it in editing for 10x longer than the clip actually is.
I think they have so many good reviews because most of the people don't realise the files are overwritten. For many it will take months to fill up 32GB and by that time they already left a positive review.
"Chinese pirates, it's like they're not even trying." No, it's just them abiding by the (Chinese!) law which states exactly how close and not close your product may be to an existing one before it counts as a counterfeit. So what you really should be saying is" Chinese lawmakers, this is such an obvious ripoff, why do you let it count as it's own product with such minor differences?"
@@jm036 - Huh? What are you, 12? Who are you talking to? Who said what? Good God, there needs to be an IQ test before people are allowed on the internet.
Donald Person You can't stop people from saying what they want. Everyone knows that. And as for the IQ test, well, it's just unfair for other people who have disabilities and those too old or too young.
I bought a Sandisk branded microSD card through Newegg, came direct from China. I was using it for Raspberry Pi so was using the full capacity. Basically Raspberry Pi wouldn't boot, the card would over right once it filled up, the capacity was maybe half, took me days to figure out what was happening, also I wondered why the paint was coming off and the color was off. Talk to Newegg and they replaced it with a true Sandisk. Sad thing is if someone bought it for a camera and popped it in, they wouldn't know for days, weeks, or months that there was a problem with the card and over writing they're photos.
And this has happened a lot..Mom & Pop bought an SD card for their once in a lifetime holiday to the island, took many pics of their only daughters wedding/grandchilds birth and found out all was over written on a 32gb card which was only 4gb.. ALWAYS run H2TestW before using a card. DEATH to card pirates..
@@kn00tcn Newegg was bought by a company in china. So it is very likely their products can come from china. Nothing is stopping them from lying about their sources either.
Make a video about GPUs that pretends to be a 1060 or any other nice graphic card by using a modified BIOS but they actually have another old graphic processor
girlsdrinkfeck no, he hasn’t, I’m speaking about extremely old chipsets like a 380 or a 480 with a modded bios that makes them appear to the PC like a 1060 for example but obviously they do not have the memory that the PC thinks they has by reading their bios so they just cause lots of graphical bugs in games that uses more graphical memory than the gpu really have since the PC tries to write data where storage does not exists; they are a gigantic scam that can easily fool someone who do not knows much about computers. You can easily find them on eBay, Wish and many other websites.
Bruh, literally every sd card is waterproof and shockproof. Heck, I even washed and dryed (by accident) my SanDisk 32gb and put it straight in my phone
