NEVER buy memory cards on Ebay ! Warning !!!!!

[dancingpotato]

Warning !!!!!!!!!!! Almost all of the memory cards sold on Ebay are "hacked" cards which have been digitally altered to read false sizes but you wont find out until you try to read the images back from the non existent sectors.

For example ... they take a 2 gig card (very low cost to them) and digitally alter it to read 32 gigs on your computer (high cost to you) ... your PC will read 32 gigs and u can "upload" 32 gigs of information to the card ... but it is not really being written at all !!!!!!!!! ... and when u try to read any data over the real 2 gigs you will get an error in the data transfer.... ... everything over the 2 gigs is lost !!!!!

Read about this huge scam here: http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/

And you can use a free program called H2testw 1.4 to verify any flash cards or devices u may have!

[dancingpotato]

Look at this forum (below) entry to see what happens with a hacked card (UncleJoe1985 did not know about the hacked flash device problem and bought his card from a known seller of altered cards) his link is to a typical altered card from Ebay ... there are many horror stories of people losing really important data !!!! :

32Gb SDHC with bad sectors
UncleJoe1985

Joe bought his card from xoldskool

http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/?s=xoldskool

Posted on August 22, 2009
xoldskool is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash memory cards. xoldskool also sells mp players. Registered in Hong Kong, xoldskool is trying to hide his fraudulent activities with private auctions.

[dancingpotato]

Not every card error is because of a card being hacked to read greater capacity ... but if you bought the card on Ebay ... especially from a seller in China ... and its 16 or 32 GB (or more) it probably is hacked and completely useless.

[StevieDgpt]

Greed is such a nasty vice.