Have I Just Been Dudded?

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  ozhunter on 30/01/2015 - 00:30

  Use a sd card speed tester and see if you can fill up the microsd card.

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    [Deactivated] on 30/01/2015 - 00:34

    The photo he has posted in the listing seems to be an actual photo, rather than a display photo or the product. So I am assuming that the packaging does say SDHC, which is a big worry.

    Edit: On further inspection, the packaging seems to say SDHC, where as the actual memory card in the photo displays the SDXC logo.

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      scrimshaw on 30/01/2015 - 00:39

      There seems to be several variations of product packaging

      white
      http://www.jakartanotebook.com/images/products/27/31/3284/1/…

      grey
      http://www.unbox.ph/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_9230.jpg

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  scrimshaw on 30/01/2015 - 00:31

  You can't really tell until you've received it and tested it.

  I would say that it is unlikely to be a scam, the seller has a pretty good feedback ratio and only 1 out of 666 feedback claimed in the last 12 months mentions a fake SD card. But you can only speculate at this point.

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  Jekyll on 30/01/2015 - 00:43

  If you look at the listing image you will see that the card itself (not the adapter) is SDXC.

  With that said; here's an image pulled from an online retailer showing the same product, but with no mention of SDHC on the pack.

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  Axelstrife on 30/01/2015 - 00:50

  Looking at various images on google using the model number on the listing every single one with packaging matching the listing says SDXC on the packaging and the card.

  Im going to say it's fake as SDHC doesnt go over 32gb as far as i know and SDXC is 64gb and higher.

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  [Deactivated] on 30/01/2015 - 01:08

  +2

  Thanks all. I contacted the seller with my concerns and he offered me a full refund as I was not 100% satisfied.

  I definitely won't be making the same error again.

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    [Deactivated] on 30/01/2015 - 16:18

    You did well, and almost certainly dodged the actually dudding you feared.
    Sellers who sell counterfeit cards do seem to be very obliging, generally, when it comes to giving refunds. Even when buyers cotton on after receipt, most sellers see the bigger picture as regards their particular 'business model' and promptly refund to avoid negative feedback.

    For the most part, they rely on customer apathy.
    Few buyers actually test the card they receive, and as long as it seems to work ok initially, don't bother to chase things up when things go awry some weeks or months down the track.

    I found this Gough Lui guy's tech blog recently. He's good value, but a purchase he made, also recently, wasn't.

    On the strength of the entry I linked, he may well have bought a counterfeit SanDisk card from the same Australian seller you encountered - same 99.5% seller rating.

    I am expecting the fakery to become more sophisticated as time goes on.
    Genuinely indistinguishable packaging, and fewer scam-capacity, data-looping cards.
    Economies of (counterfeiting) scale, will see more full capacity cards, with only the cheap - also copied, but less sophisticated - controller-chips making for the extra profit, but also making for anomalies in performance for those who give a damn.

    It has been the 'Wild West' for years as regards Kingston-branded products, but in order to compete with online prices, more bricks & mortar stores will likely get roped by the horns as they seek to source cheaper SanDisk (and Samsung) cards via 'alternate' channels.

    It happened to Officeworks some time ago and is undoubtedly happening to others right now.

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  PVA on 30/01/2015 - 16:25

  if they refunded so easily that makes it really suss doesnt it. you are lucky.