Buyer beware, as always. First there was the “buy the box, not the contents” scam where people thought they were buying a product at a knock-down price where what they were really buying was the packaging. Now dodgy eBay sellers are changing the labels of memory cards to artificially boost their value. Standard advice, if it seems too good to be true it usually is.
Counterfeit Flash Drives Plague eBay
Lately there has been a huge increase in the number of counterfeit flash drives on eBay. Sellers claim to be selling large drives (e.g 8GB) from name brand companies, like Sony, but they are actually 64MB drives that have been re-labeled. These drives usually break within a few weeks of being purchase. Please digg this to stop the scammers!
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Beware eBay Memory Card Scam
Buyer beware, as always. First there was the “buy the box, not the contents” scam where people thought they were buying a product at a knock-down price where what they were really buying was the packaging. Now dodgy eBay sellers are changing the labels of memory cards to artificially boost their value. Standard advice, if it seems too good to be true it usually is.
Counterfeit Flash Drives Plague eBay
Technorati Tags: ebay, scam, warning, photography, memory, card, tips