You know whats funny. Some teenagers asked me (i work in PC shop) the pricing of 2TB kingston USB stick. When they heard price ( witch was around 1800$) they laughed and say something like... we have a "source" we buy them for 50$ I laughed....hard, and say that he scammed them.
This is the scam most stores that you get ads on Instagram use. "Get this bracelet for free and just pay shipping" and usually they would be discounted from 30$ to 0 but shipping is like 10$. What they do is just order the cheapest stuff from AliExpress and just put in your address. The stuff usually costs about a buck. And some are straight up scams that don't even deliver or deliver something fishy or just something else
I work for a memory vendor and it happened that end users were buying 2TB USB pen drive while our max capacity was 128GB. Mainly from wish or ebay. I informed ebay about sellers selling fake products but it was extremely complicated get them removed. Thanks for making this video.
It's been 4 years but let me give you an update. Amazon has a policy against fake items and they refund the item fairly quickly and take down the listing. Ebay has adopted that to a lesser extent, they are bitches about refunds but they'll take the listing down. The only thing is neither platform bans sellers permanently. They ban one account, they make another and the process continues forever.
My mom bought a 20TB Hard Drive for $8. She started blaming me for ruining it when I reverted all formatting. She actually thought that I "Deleted the storage" Edit:Returned to this video after 10 months. Top comment :). Anyways, I learnt how to do this and proved it was a scam after all this time, and now she's WAY more careful buying online products and responding to suspicious emails.
Parker Hamilton but now it’s under $100 for new m.2 1TB SSDs, and that’s even more unbelievable! I paid $160 for mine, but it’s one of those 3500MB/s read and 3000MB/s wrote maxing out PCIe 3.0 4x drives, so about 6x faster than what the fastest SATA 3 drive can do. Right now storage and memory are dirt cheap ($45 for 16 GB of DDR4 desktop memory, and not the generic green PCB sticks, last year or two I think I had to pay $180 or maybe even $220 for similar). And 64 GB of name branded high speed SD cards are like $20 (I was benching 90MB/s read and write) My ratings are in MB/s, if you are comparing to label, they typically use Mbps or Mb/s, so multiply my rating by 8x (8x bits in a byte), I prefer using something closer to the GB we are used to using (so like that SSD is 3 to 3.5 GB/s, but an internet provider would call that at least 30 Gigabit per second) But you’re right, for real 20TB consumer drives it would cost $480 (2x 10TB NAS drive), haha, yeah a little bit more than his mom paid...
well, wish isnt always a scam, and as much as i like to ignore it, i still use wish, because in my country, some things are limited (for me anime merch) so i buy then from wish,
You could say the exact same thing about Amazon as well, because as the video stated, this stuff is sold on Amazon as well. What you people don't understand: Wish is not one seller, but a a marketplace with literally thousands of thousands of sellers. Many legit and more than enough are scammers. Just like on Amazon Marketplace or ebay...
Thanks for doing a public service. I also found this out on my own. I thought the phone was losing the data. I spent hours copying data to a 128gb card. I would occasionally check the last data was there allright but the first written data was being removed. Writing and deleting at the same time. Good video and thanks again.
Damn, man...I just watched your scam bait videos & this one, & I have to say I'm genuinely impressed. You've done a great job exposing these frauds & I'm sure you've helped many people avoid losing their hard-earned cash. Kudos to you, kind sir. ✌😃
I LOVED the explanation of the spare storage blocks and why they shouldn't be used even at a lower capacity. I've bought a couple too- good-to-be-true drives over the years (this scam is as old as thumb drives). Glad to know now *why* they failed. Thank you.
@Magil lB it is a thing and you should always choose Amazon brand because they are releasing their own 400 gig expansion for their new fire 8 computer which is on Xmas sell.
Ebay have immunity from the products they traffic due to them being "a platform and not a publisher". They make the rules work but only for their own benefit.
I ordered eye masks from wish, several different ones at £2 each. None of them arrived and were all from Chinese sellers. When I contacted wish some of the people said they would refund, but they never. Basically they take you through so many days of back and forth emailing till you’re over the 30 day limit. Wish don’t care. It was only £14. But imagine how many people they do that to? They will make a fortune purely by advertising small things for small prices and never selling them. I don’t even try things from there anymore. I’m done with it 🙄
I ordered the 512gb on Wish just an hour ago. Something made me think to check it out after the fact and here I am. Dumb-arse me, but I managed to cancel the order. Lets see if that works. Thanks for the heads-up.
Brandon O'Sullivan there is drama here. You stillstupid no matter what hat u canceled this order. My dog is 13 yo and my dog would have know this is a scam. Go on internet and tell your story make you only double stupid. Allah ng with allof that showin your kido photo here makes you propa idiot. Feel sorry for family.
barta235 sure 512GB for couple of pounds. Its like walking inside the train and waiting for thing to fly away like a jet. Tellin someone that he is stupid is not trolling. Your political correctness 😅 this make you even more stupid. Glad non of you are my parents that would be mega sad story.
Another big scam is rechargeable batteries with huge capacities. These are all over Amazon. If you see an 8 pack of 18650s with a "9000mah" capacity . . . for $19.99 . . . yeah, that's a scam. (18650s typically top out at 3600mah and cost at least $12 apiece).
@@AtomicShrimp the capacity of the portable battery banks and throughput are always exaggerated. items sold as 5a fast chargers only pulling 2.1 or even 1.
@@AtomicShrimp Or just batteries, like 18650 cells. The best actual 18650 cells today are not even at 4000 mAh, yet there are cheap 4800mAh ones available on Ebay. I bought one of those and it's ridiculously light weight compared to any genuine 18650 and, you guessed it; it's a scam, the real capacity being around 10% of the advertised. With the portable chargers, at least the working 18650 cells in them are good ones, just that the other half of the "cells" are just tubes filled with sand to add weight.
@@lollllloro there are also fake 12V 20000mAh batteries on eBay which only have around 7000-10000 mAh in reality. For their price, they're still decent, though.
I've been scammed one time, the scary part was that I bought it on CDiscount (a very famous French marketplace), and it wasnt even a ridiculous product, it was a "8 GB" Micro SD Card for 5 Euros, which is not that far from the regular price. Fortunately, I tested it immediately after receiving it and realized it was a scam, and I got my money back.
I just stumbled upon your channel by one of your scambaiting videos and I decided to check out what other types of videos you post. I am very impressed with the quality of all of your videos! I subscribed
No, it doesn't. I have some fakes, and I were able to fill it with files in a way, that it were safe to use:I wrote full the fake part with the program in the video. However, the card forget the data after several weeks, and became unpartitioned. Also, these cards tend to be very slow.
@@RelakS__ The point was that it would've made a nice 16gig card if its controller were properly programmed to make use of those reserve sectors and to present the card as a 16gig card to the host device; if every part of the supply chain would have been honest. That could definitely be a nice card.
@@ferrumignis Of course it would, I would assume that is exactly the way smaller card sizes "get produced". For example, if I had a main goal to produce 64 GB cards, to be efficient I would have to attempt to manufacture the flash chips as something like 80 GB, then for each card determine how much of that is usable and sell them accordingly: if more than 64 GB is usable, set controller "show as 64 GB, here's all these sectors you can use to do that" and sell 64 GB card. else if more than 32 GB is usable, set controller "show as 32 GB, here's all these sectors you can use to do that" and sell 32 GB card. same with 16, 8, 4... to how small sizes I would want to sell and dispose of the rest (apparently this is where the scammers get a hold of them). The amount of excess sectors could mean the card could be faster and be sold as such.
I’ve bought items from Chinese Sellers on EBay, Wish, and Aliexpress- all art supplies. I think it’s a matter of having common sense- is it too good to be true? Then it probably is. It’s hard to smudge the books on a pencil, eraser, and markers. They are what they are, but I wouldn’t ever buy any digital tech from these places. I bought some earbuds last week, looking forward to testing them next month lol
I've seen people buying clothing and makeup on these Chinese websites. Waste of money. It's tempting to waste money on Wish but... Tech items are always a scam and clothes are a gamble because 99 percent of the time you will waste your money, the item will be a copy of something more expensive but they use cheap materials. In regards to makeup, it would be common sense not to use these things, they could contain lead or otherwise toxic/irritating ingredients. I've seen people with rashes because they used thongs/flip-flops from China. Even earrings would be unsafe in my opinion because they could irritate your skin somehow. Checking reviews help a bit but I'd still be wary of bad materials. I actually told a girl I know about the quality and she still spent a fortune on Wish.
The Weirdo Yeah, the sizing scale is different in China so I just don’t find it worth the hassle, though my mom bought a pair of boots she really likes. I wouldn’t ever buy something you ingest/apply to yourself, especially when you think about the transit , and quality in general like you said
@@qwerty_artist Yeah exactly. There's the sizing issue too! I would probably try a clothing item or shoe, but I also don't have disposable money for these kinds of things. They tend to give out refunds but even then, it takes 2-3+ months for something to be shipped. I don't know. Not worth it. In regards to makeup, not only the ingredients can be dangerous but the product might be awful. Like, lipstick that doesn't show on your lips, or with a weird chemical smell etc. And funny thing is, I use Chinese products on the daily, like most of us. Even phones are assembled in China. But these things on Wish aren't actually as cheap as advertised, and considering I'm in South America, I could get better stuff for the same price or less in stores. No real difference for me. There's one thing I might get however, which is a designer jacket I came across on Romwe. It turns out it was an outrageously expensive jacket 'released' in 2011. I found copies of it in Chinese reseller websites but it doesn't include the same patch on it. It would probably be good enough for me though since I can't get the original. The jacket was a Komakino Autumn/Winter one.
Bought cardreaders, voltage regulators and even a CPU from china on ebay. It was always around the expected price range and all of it worked. Just as said at the end ov the video: "If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't true"
My son got sucked into this. He bought, if I remember right, a 1TB flash drive from Wish real cheap. It looked great on Windows but when I tried to write to it, it would not take more than 32GB.
I worked in an Amazon warehouse for a bit and they gave us the exact same SD cards and they suck bad. Seems everything in that warehouse was sucky as hell. We had to read a list of items go fetch them bring them back to the people who package and mail them. I worked in that too and I rather go get the items than package them. Anyway instead of giving us a jacket or maybe a company coffee mug for Xmas we got a crappy SD card and I just threw it away after I tried using it. None of my devices would even accept it anyways and just about everyone said the exact same thing.
Also, be very careful about buying type-c micro USB cables. I have bought several from multiple companies over the past two years, and all but one either took 8 hours for 1% of charge, 0% charge after an entire day, or, in one case, actually lost 1% charge while plugged into a functioning outlet for nearly 8 hours. Fortunately, I was able to return all but the ones I tried from Best Buy, but I had to pay a shipping fee for the ones from Amazon, meaning I paid $18 for the shoddy cables, and they refunded me around $13. They probably just repackaged the cables and scammed another sorry person like they did me. The one I finally found to work (and works just as good as the factory cable that came with my phone) is the BrexLink USB Certified Type C Cable. Good luck.
It's not only the Type C that can be the issue. My phone got a Type C port for charging and the cable is not fixed to the charger but can also be unplugged for use as regular data cable. When I use the same cable on a different charger, it charges slower, wo fast charge, around 6 hrs for a full charge. While the original charger does it in around 20 mins.
I can vouch, I think Type C is just a broken ass model tbh, my port is starting to say fuck off to my Type C earphones as well. It's just a broken model
Hmm, I'm kind of troubled by the number of comments that are either "ok but mine is totally real though honest. what? no I didn't actually test it" or "I know it's fake but I don't care, because reasons." It's interesting how the brain can post rationalize being scammed.
Super strange, I know. I think some of the people who say they don't care, are not aware that data loss can happen even if you never exceed the true physical storage capacity in these fake drives, because the firmware is broken
The sad thing about all these low cost cards are that many people would buy them anyway at the right price, as even though they are not particularly large in capacity they certainly are useful for small storage, but only at the right price of course.
Congrats on 500k! Just found you thanks to my obsession with scam baiting; you have a unique style & I love your narratives. I hope you keep posting scam baiting content, Cheers!
I bought a 128GB MicroSD card from Amazon last week, and sure enough it too was a counterfeit. At first glance the packaging seemed okay, but when I saw that my transfer speeds were 3-4MB/s instead of 90MB/s, I became suspicious. Some closer inspection of the packaging had letters that had rainbow fringes (an artifact of scanning) and seemed too thin. The adapter it came with too also had smudged text. Luckily Amazon was pretty quick to resolve the issue, and the second one I received was genuine.
YUP! I ordered 4 chips via Ebay. 2 128Gig and 2 32Gig. Actually EXPECTED the 128 Gig to be fake, but the 32 Gig good. I bought 2 from each supplier to just prove it wasn't a random bad chip. ALL 4 were bad. As is shown in this video you can format and even write, it all seems to be OK, but the data isn't actually written. I feel bad for the people who THINK they are saving files for archive, taking pictures, recording sound, etc. They often will not discover the data they think they had isn't there until months later.
Thank you for the video I was looking at a 1tb on the internet and I was surprised how cheap they were and was going to buy a couple. Not now thanks again
That was amazing man thank you straight to the point love it we need more people like you I don't subscribe to hardly anyone but soon as your video finished I thought yep need him
The best advice: regardless of where you bought the card (bad things can get into the supply chain of normal big-box stores, too), always test it before use. Test it for both the capacity and the speeds, to make sure the speed agrees with the label -- for use in video cameras the speed is a real requirement. You might include a link, visible QR code on the video, for h2testw and similar things for other platforms.
Thank you sooo much I just bought one yesterday and after watching this video I cancled the order imeddiately! Thanks to you It was cancled in time! I subscribed
What's terrible about these scams is that people who fall for them by simply trusting what OS shows them in drive properties don't loose all that much money, but they might easily end up loosing important data by trying to back it up on such drives.
I got scammed aswell. 256gb sandisk ultra bought from China. Showed up on my phone later it crashed on my pc and stopped functioning altogether. Lost valuable data. Unbelievable.
Had the same with a 32 GB card, bought locally at a store, from a reputable brand. Guess I just overexhauste it with too much writes. (swap and mount for some old phone) so it's my fault for what I did with it.
This is why I never buy memory cards or hard drives from anywhere than a physical shop front who is a reputable dealer. You'll never go wrong. Data is worth so much more than a few bucks.
Especially when you compare the times involved, the time wasted in your lost data, vs the time invested in that extra money you spend for a genuine memory solution.
No need for the physical part. I mean you get what you pay for from amazon as long as you get the stuff sold by the manufacturer or amazon recommended. Though often Amazon recommended is a product direct from the reputable maker.
Ebay sellers: sinceritytrading, courtesytrading. I have bought only legit stuff from them, including 512GB microSD, and they way cheaper than the Hungarian prices. Of course, not that cheap as in the video :D
I actually bought the 2 tb thumbdrive on geek about 2 years ago and I knew I shouldn't have trusted it. I used it about 6 months ago (finally) and it did absolutely nothing. Anything I'd put on there would be deleted by the time I tried to transfer files to another pc or say the content was locked. I hope it's enjoying it's new home in the way back of my closet.
Unfortunately, my father was a victim in this type of scam which is a 2TB USB stick that's very cheap and too good to be true. Luckily, he managed to recover some of his works, but it scarred me and my dad for days.
back in the mid 2000s there were usb drives on ebay that friends of mine fell for. title said "64GB drive". price around 20 bucks. trick was, that it was just the brand name, not the capacity. this was when 256mb sticks were around 50 bucks
Brilliant, very well presented, I recently bought my £45, 128 Mb UHS [1] SD card at PCWorld rather than chance my money on ebay, I have downloaded H2testw and will check it. On ebay A Samsung 256 Mb @ £46.00 ** item Image UHS [3] description type [10]??? So sent question to seller as to what I would receive, got NO reply.! Even when the capacity is genuine, the performance may not be what is required. These scumbags rely on our ignorance of SD card, types and markings.
Yep we got the same scam off of Ebay! In our situation we were recording on our video cam and found out the card wouldn't even hold half of what it said. Opened a return case with the seller. Time and hassle to wait for the seller to respond within 5 days per Ebay's terms n conditions. Like often times, seller never responded. Ebay then had to issue a refund. By this time, nearly two weeks have passed since we initially placed the order whereby taking 4 days till the seller shipped it out, 3 more days until it was actually delivered at our house, the 5 days of waiting for the seller to respond, and then a couple days until Ebay actually issued the refund and the money showed back up in our account. We tried again buying the same sd card but from another seller and got the exact same BS of it wouldn't hold even half of what it said. So had to go thru the whole thing AGAIN of opening a return case. After the garbage of this happening a second time, we said enough was enough and reported it to Ebay right on their website as well as calling to inquire why isn't anything getting done with the thousands upon thousands of fake items on their site especially when this isn't even close to the first time we have been ripped off by products with fake descriptions, but AGAIN we were only given their BS formatted reply of "thank you fo choosin Ebay. We value customers and are do everything make certain customer be assured to get real items" I said "THATS' A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT AND YOU KNOW IT...please excuse my language and tone of voice mam but me n wife as well as COUNTLESS others have been reporting fake items for years whereby proving their fake without any doubt whatsoever but yet you're still allowing those exact same items listed all over your ebay site. We then got the other formatted reply that's adopted by countless companies including Ebay of "sowwy fo incovenience and we take note of situation. If that is all, thank you and have good day" Just look up blue watermelon seeds that the scam capital of the world, china, is still selling on Ebay after several years they have been UNCONDITIONALLY PROVEN fake! Can also look up the COUNTLESS other seeds n such sold by China that are PROVEN SCAM
Ebay and Amazon are liable. Maybe it is cheaper to refund the money to the few customers that jump through all the hoops than to test the thousand of items.
I've been looking online to buy a microSD card, preferable 256GB. The crazy thing is, there are so many sellers even on sites like Lazada and Shopee that sell them very cheaply, like $10 for 256GB!! Right there and then we have red flags. And then they have Samsung, SanDisk, Kingston and even.. Huawei! Take your pick! And here's the sad part: the folks who purchased them posted reviews swearing that they're authentic even if the font used for '256GB' on a Kingston packaging is obviously fake (many folks posted photos)! If you look further though, there are also many reviews saying their files got corrupted but recovered, they only got 8GB usable, etc., obvious signs that they're fake, and yet no one even mentioned that they thought they were fake!! Either the seller removes reviews that say they're fake or people are just stupid or in denial that they got swindled!! Be careful guys, if it's too cheap you know there's something fishy, even if the seller absolutely guarantees their authenticity.
What really got my goat was how aggressive some of the comments have been on my videos exposing these fakes - people believed they got a working device specifically because they were fooled by the technical nature of the fakery - the devices typically report high capacity, and accept files (which are just lost as they are copied in), so buyers think that's evidence that they got what was advertised. The whole thing is a textbook example of the Dunning-Kruger effect really.
32gb is still a resonable price for 8 quid. The problem is if it is a factory reject which is likely then you never know what youre being sent and getting a resonable capacity is going to be luck of the draw. And theres no garuntee there aren't other issues either. You can get resonably priced high capacity cards.......but there is a price cut off that if you go below then you realy should be expecting a scam. Unsupprisingly the best way of finding the deals is on gaming pages. Specifically those that concentrate on raspberry pi boards. As people buy' test and then reccomend sd cards. You would struggle to get 64gb for under a 10er. And even in that ballpark youll be getting generic or unbranded stuff that has a lower write/read speed compared to the all singing all dancing sd cards you get on uk highstreets (wilkos seems to offer some of the better deals on those). If you pay peanuts then you realy shouldn't be blaming anyone but yourself when youre shipped peanuts. People do though and quite often at that lol. One of my chinese sellers of choice back in the day was fasttech. They were pretty legit for their products. Mainly as they don't charge unrealistic prices. Ebay is also a good way of saving a buck or 2 on legit memory cards. But you realy do have to read the reviews before hitting that pay button
Yep - i'd never trust one of these even if it was reset to its proper capacity - because of the way these things are made (I mean the legit ones) - they are manufactured with more blocks of memory than spec, then QC processes identify and flag bad blocks, replacing them from the onboard spares - the capacity scam that has been done to this SD card will have destroyed that tuning.
@@MishMoves yeah iv bought batteries and vape gear from fasttech in the past. As a general rule iv had no issues. The only times i have had an issue was when items went missing or never turned up. But i either got them replaced or refunded. It just takes a sodding long time when that happens lol
I usually just buy brand products; for SD cards, I’d get SanDisk or in the case of switch, get the Nintendo SD which while more expensive, I will get the product I bought.
Great video. Didn't know this was a thing scammers did. But what if the scammers start charging more to make you think you're getting the real thing because it isn't so cheap? How can you tell if you've been scammed?
That is a real concern - in fact, the item on Amazon that was (very likely) fake wasn't cheap.I imagine it won't be long before these fake items manage to work their way even into the supply chain of bricks-and-mortar stores. I think the answer is: buy somewhere that has some semblance of trustworthiness, where there is a satisfaction guarantee - always test the product on receipt, and complain, and demand a full refund if it's fake.
Ebay has this issue with fake video game cartridges and CDs. They used to be $5 pieces of crap. Now they retail for about the same as a legit copy, making it very had to determine if you're buying a fake unless you know what to look for.
This explains a lot I’ve bought quite a few memory cards wish I’ve had some problems with them presuming it was my own fault which are their own worst enemies now people know about them are likely to lose customers I’m deleting the app from my phone
Heh. I just realized I have bought some microSD cards from China, lol. I wonder how much I got scammed, damnit, although they were small ones and prices were about right. 😋
found you randomly. keep it up, haters are everywhere. your videos are kinda enjoyable and you know what you're talking about, maybe not a deep expert, but not an ignorant
My mom bought me a high capacity flash drive for a photoshop camp, it said all 300 of my photos loaded onto it fully, only 26 were there and the rest was lost
My sister found Wish a few years ago and bought some knick knacks from shows she likes. She was happy with the service so she started buying almost EVERYTHING from wish and it got to a point that her house was filled with stuff that LOOKED like it should work but didn't actually do what you wanted it to. She had a blender that's motor was bad so it never blended. She stopped using wish when she purchased a laptop and what showed up was so utterly horrible it was finally enough to make her stop using it. Just a few months ago she had a talk with my mother about Temu and how it's the exact same thing so I think she's finally come around.
Huh. A year ago I bought a 1TB SSD for around 80$. The sticker and plastic looked cheap and I failed to open it, but the product actually exists, I plugged it in and it worked fine. I didn't test the full capacity though, just the first 200GB or so. The scam to make it look legit and fake capacity and file list, but loose the data is such a dick move. Even if you don't buy one from scammers yourself, when put in a pile of other memory chips, it looks the same and seems to behave the same at first.
Geez I realize just now that this memory card that I bought from an electronics store was maybe fake the whole time. No wonder my files keep disappearing every now and then. Geez, I've had it for three years now. Dang it.
@@SyphistPrime Oh its VERY possible to do it, it's just stupid expensive. After all DNA has the kind of data density that we would VERY much like to have.
@@mrbuttocks6772 I know DNA has a high data density and I can't wait for us to get storage to that size. I worded my original post poorly. I just didn't realize it was possible with today's technology.
Two weeks ago I bought 1 x 1tb usb 3 stick and 1 x 2tb usb stick from EBay, I won’t to increase the memory on my PS4, however, it wouldn’t accept them, both where under £10 from different sellers. After watching your video, I’m wondering if these two memory sticks are fake, and the PS4 wouldn’t accept them because were fake. How can I test there capacity to see if they are fake so that I can contact eBay to stop other people buying them.
decades ago "shopping rule" was simple : if you could afford buying something (radio ,portable audio tape player , video cassette player and so on ) you bought it . if you couldn't , you had to get a job , borrow money , or save money till you had the required amount . Now it's different , there is a huge demand for electronic goods , people can't wait . and here come counterfeiters with their poor quality goods , they meet that huge demand
ThermaL1102 True, but for us smart people to exist there has to be people for us to be smarter than. I wish everyone would open their eyes, and not need me to explain everything.
I bought some stickers and a purse from Wish and two purses from aliexpresss, and surprise, I actually received them! It took like 3 months but they are what I ordered. But no way would I ever order anything electronic, or any musical instruments. Way cheap and too good to be true! Thanks for this vid!!!
I tried to buy a fake one too just to see how simple it was to resize it. I said it was fake to wish and got my money back, so now I have a free 14GB drive, not bad!
Would do the same. Buy the fake stuff. Get my money back, keep the fake stuff, make it usable and use it That way the seller doesn't get money for their fakes and I get free stuff. I'm a tinkerer, so no issue fixing stuff myself. If I had the devices needed for it, I would do the same with the faked graphics cards.
I told EBAY the same thing and they wanted me to return it to the dealer first. I fucking refused hard and told them why. They'd only resell it and EBAY will do nothing. This went on for a week with me asking whether they would punish the seller. The cunt is still there.
Yep, I once got a fake high-capacity microSD as well on eBay. The price wasn't too unreasonably low, so I took a chance on it. Fortunately, I tested it before using it for anything important - because it also had less than 32GB of usable space.
Fake maybe. But some are better quality than others, we've bought a few plushies for our kids before and with the exception of the label the fake is spot on to the original. Considering kids are destructive anyway. I would rather see our daughter destroy a cheap fake plushie than a genuine branded one.
some stuff ive gotten on wish tbh. especially the pokeball spice grinders for my brother and his gf. they are the real thing too. i dont trust everything on wish just like ebay but i always look at the reviews, stars and see what im expecting
@@ImperfectionGuaranteed alot could be falsified but theres ones with pics. just like aliexpress, i bought things legitly from both sites however some things on said sites can in fact be scams. but this isnt just these 2. amazon and ebay too
Where I live weekly night street markets are pretty common. I went to one and they were selling Kingston 32GB SD cards for 10 rm (2.38USD). I'm not sure what the average price was at that time but around 50 rm (11.92USD) is a safe bet. I bought one. When I used it in my phone, it just doesn't register the card. The card I was using at the time worked fine so it wasn't my phone problem. I tried it on another phone and it still didn't work. They were there the next week. But the week after, they were gone. So that sucks. Ever since then, I've always been super consious about SD cards. Like a year ago I got a 32 GB SD card from a shop in a mall. I have bought an HDMI cable from them in the past and their shop seems reputable. The price was about 70 rm(16.69USD). I asked him if I could test it on my phone first and he agreed. Everything seemed fine so I bought it. I used it until it was full. I had looked online and there were cheaper, a lot cheaper. I looked on Alibaba, Wish, and Shopee. There were a lot of mixed reviews. Some say it works perfectly, some say it works perfectly at first but data got corrupted, some say it's a scam, etc. What scares me the most is that it might work perfectly at first then it gets corrupted and I lose everything. And it's not like I can talk to the seller face to face if anything happens. I'd rather pay more and feel more safe. I found a seller on Shopee and the reviews seemed pretty good. The seller also seems reputable. I got a San Disc 64GB SD Card for 38.80 rm (9.25USD). I have about 44.07 GB left and so far it works fine. The shop that I bought my previous SD Card from told me they had an ongoing promotion. 99rm(23.61USD) for a 64GB SD card. I'm pretty sure the normal price was around 120rm(28.62USD). I think SD Cards are quite easy to scam people. They're small, quite expensive, and a lot of people need them. And you can't really tell if the SD card is authentic until you actually use the item. I've always wondered why it's very expensive? I guess a good rule of thumb is that if something is really cheap, there might be a bad reason why. 🤷
I bought a 128gb SD and it ended up being a 128mb SD card and when I tried to complain about it the sells shop was closed down. Be careful with what you buy on wish
I just watched the fake 2 TB drive video, wish is such a stupid app/website, it was advertised to me so much before and i knew it was to good to be true, because your obviously not getting a car for 100 dollars.
My father bought a 500GB hard drive very cheap, actually opened the thing up and it was just a small card and a big block of metal to simulate the weight of a hard drive. It was quite hilarious
I bought lion keychains from wish and they sent just those dumb puffballs for keychains and purses. you know the ones. I got a total refund though, but the lions were so cute....wish i could find where they stole the photo from so i could actually buy them
Just go on a computer, save it, go to images.google.com, click the camera icon in the Google search bar, upload the image, then click on "visually similar images", try to find images that look like the bracelet, and finally go to the website and see if they are selling it
Thankyou so much for sharing your knowledge. I will be honest I don't understand certain things,I am still learning. But you make it easy to understand. Thankyou so much,really appreciate you doing video's like this to educate us. Stay well & safe,takecare. Sending big hugs & loves,xx
I got it on a stationery shop, tested inmediatelly with a big file (incidentally the only big file i had was porn lol) and the stationery shop employee almost spit in my face when i asked a refund, i don't go there anymore. Always test your sketchy no brand usb sticks
Incorrect. The FAT32 file system supports storage up to 2TB and Windows supports FAT32. Windows 7, 8 and 10 just have an artificial, arbitrary restriction to prevent you from formatting that high capacity as FAT32. XP would happily format it as FAT32. Certified SDXC cards do come formatted in exFat but there's nothing preventing Windows from using the card if you decide to re-format it as FAT32.
