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omGARY · Jun 21, 2006, 9:53 PM

Can someone please educate me why memory sticks/cardson eBay are less than HALF the price compared to retailers?? I want to buy a Sony 1GB memory stick duo pro -- ARE there fake memory sticks/cards out there??

Morag2 · Jun 21, 2006, 9:57 PM

The ebay cards are used and they also have a shipping fee attached to them. Retailers sell brand new cards, often with warranties. You can get a good deal off ebay, but retailers give you peace of mind.

omGARY · Jun 21, 2006, 9:58 PM

i don't know if all of them are used on ebay.. but what's wrong with a used memory card?

junebug1701 · Jun 21, 2006, 10:10 PM

Yes, there are fake/counterfeit cards on Ebay--I don't know about MemoryStick, but SD cards? You better believe it! Buyer beware:

http://members.shaw.ca/fakesandisk/

omGARY · Jun 21, 2006, 11:21 PM

other than the lifetime guarantee, fake memory cards still work right? i went to the above link u posted, and i'm not quite sure what the performance of the two different memory cards mean.. as long as it doesn't corrupt/distort pictures stored, fake cards don't seem too bad.. rite?

junebug1701 · Jun 22, 2006, 2:08 AM

I'm sure many of the fake cards work just fine--for a while. There have been reports stating that they fail after a few weeks or months. The real Sandisk cards have a lifetime warranty. You pays your money and you takes your chances.

omGARY · Jun 22, 2006, 2:20 AM

so are there reports of fake digital cameras that look and work almost like the real one? i've seen fake Sony that you can obviously tell by looking at the logo.

tom21 · Jun 22, 2006, 5:25 AM

There are loads of fake Sony cards and sandisk cards going around at the moment! I would NOT recommend buyingoff ebay- if the price is too good to be true it's because it's not!

Try www.emartbuy.co.uk, their prices are cheap, I have bought off them before and my item came next day, they seem pretty spot on.

Tom

tom21 · Jun 22, 2006, 5:31 AM

p.s the sandisk cards warrantys have been reduced to 10 years now, but it still better than no warranty at all!

Tom LaPrise · Jun 22, 2006, 6:51 AM

Any flash memory card (CF, SD, MMC, XD, MemoryStick, etc.) has a finite number of write cycles--usually around 15,000--and a used card will obviously have fewer cycles left before files start corrupting as they're written to the card and capacity starts decreasing.

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Jun 21, 2006, 9:53 PM	#1
omGARY Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 86	Can someone please educate me why memory sticks/cardson eBay are less than HALF the price compared to retailers?? I want to buy a Sony 1GB memory stick duo pro -- ARE there fake memory sticks/cards out there??

Jun 21, 2006, 9:57 PM	#2
Morag2 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 820	The ebay cards are used and they also have a shipping fee attached to them. Retailers sell brand new cards, often with warranties. You can get a good deal off ebay, but retailers give you peace of mind.

Jun 21, 2006, 9:58 PM	#3
omGARY Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 86	i don't know if all of them are used on ebay.. but what's wrong with a used memory card?

Jun 21, 2006, 10:10 PM	#4
junebug1701 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 17	Yes, there are fake/counterfeit cards on Ebay--I don't know about MemoryStick, but SD cards? You better believe it! Buyer beware: http://members.shaw.ca/fakesandisk/

Jun 21, 2006, 11:21 PM	#5
omGARY Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 86	other than the lifetime guarantee, fake memory cards still work right? i went to the above link u posted, and i'm not quite sure what the performance of the two different memory cards mean.. as long as it doesn't corrupt/distort pictures stored, fake cards don't seem too bad.. rite?

Jun 22, 2006, 2:08 AM	#6
junebug1701 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 17	I'm sure many of the fake cards work just fine--for a while. There have been reports stating that they fail after a few weeks or months. The real Sandisk cards have a lifetime warranty. You pays your money and you takes your chances.

Jun 22, 2006, 2:20 AM	#7
omGARY Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 86	so are there reports of fake digital cameras that look and work almost like the real one? i've seen fake Sony that you can obviously tell by looking at the logo.

Jun 22, 2006, 5:25 AM	#8
tom21 Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 15	There are loads of fake Sony cards and sandisk cards going around at the moment! I would NOT recommend buyingoff ebay- if the price is too good to be true it's because it's not! Try www.emartbuy.co.uk, their prices are cheap, I have bought off them before and my item came next day, they seem pretty spot on. Tom

Jun 22, 2006, 5:31 AM	#9
tom21 Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 15	p.s the sandisk cards warrantys have been reduced to 10 years now, but it still better than no warranty at all!

Jun 22, 2006, 6:51 AM	#10
Tom LaPrise Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 324	Any flash memory card (CF, SD, MMC, XD, MemoryStick, etc.) has a finite number of write cycles--usually around 15,000--and a used card will obviously have fewer cycles left before files start corrupting as they're written to the card and capacity starts decreasing.