Fake USB Flash Drives on Ebay

[Ronshere]

I have learned that a LOT of the USB Flash Drives being sold on Ebay, From foreign sellers, are fakes.
It sems that they are selling extremely small capacity, usually 128mb drives, and they put a small program on the drive that fools your comp-uter into reporting that the drives size is 2gb or 4 or 8 or whatever.
However, when you try to transfer a file onto the drive it slows to a crawl and seems to never transfer onto the drive!

Here's a link to the warning on Ebay:
http://reviews.ebay.com/FAKE-SanDisk-Cruzer-USB-Flash-Drives-Exposed_W0QQugidZ10000000001456613

It wil give you tips on how to spot counterfeit drives.

 

[spazntwitch]

Great information Ronshere. I stick to Mwave, Newegg, and Buy.com for these though so I can always return them easily.

 

[JerryP]

Imagine that. Thanks for the post. I did recently get a 1 Gig flash from E-bay but it checks out OK, whew!