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Received a fake, luckily ebay refunded me via a dispute. Talking to them was a waste of time.
How could you tell if it is a fake?
I ordered two from previous deal, I'd better check them tomorrow
Oh man really? I ordered a 128GB Evo plus as well from these guys in the last deal
Are they definitely fake? should flag this if it's true to avoid other ozbargainers falling into the same trap
Lots of guides around, but essentially colours of card are different, wrong manufacturing country printed on card or packaging, crappy read write speeds, serial number doesn't check out with manufacturer, u3 written on packaging but u1 on card etc etc.
Link for serial check?
Pretty much this. read/write speeds didn't match what the card should do. It was pretty bad. Card/Packaging doesn't look right.
Best of luck to those who ordered.
I just checked the card I received. Reading speed is only 58.69MB/s, writing speed is 38MB/s. I used two softwares. They give almost identical results. It is definitely far from the 100MB Reading and 60MB Writing as advertised. However I don't think it's a fake. The genuine one is just like this.
Is that mixed file transfers between big and small files? The advertised speeds are basically for large file (block) transfers AND assuming you have a decent USB 3.0 card reader or equivalent to achieve this.
@bchliu: That's the continuous speed when r/w big file. You can test it yourself. You can also find the result on YouTube.
I just tested my cards from previous deal with f3 (Mac version of h2testsw) and it had the correct size, write speed averaged 57 MB/s and read speed averaged at 74 MB/s
How did you test though?
1) you can't do it in a phone because the phone's I/O performance is almost always the bottleneck (so you only end up measuring the phone's read/write performance and not the cards)
2) you can't do it with any old USB port with any old card reader because again something other than the card can be the bottleneck (card readers in particular can have variable performance — even when comparing a Micro SD slot to an SD slot on the same card sometimes)
For example if I test one of these 64GB cards from Shopping Square (I have one from a previous deal) in my S8, I see results much like yours. But "proper" testing looks more like this: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/321411#comment-4974466
(real world transfer speeds are consistent with those results)
My conclusion, based on my sample (and others from Shopping Square / APUS Corp) is that they are selling genuine products. Grey import, but genuine.
@cainn: Yes you are right. The card reader and the processing speed of the device are important. My results comes from Galaxy S8. I was lazy and did not test it on my PC with professional card reader.
If you've got a windows PC
Run h2testw. it's slow, but it's thorough.
It'll give you the speed & more importantly the real size of the card.
Here's the portable version
https://www.pendriveapps.com/test-for-fake-usb-flash-drives-…
There's a few other tools.
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterf…
Personally I only buy on ebay from Futu/Shopping express & pcbyte. I've tried a few others & have been stung, usually by the fake size (you can format it to the "correct size" but its only when writing to the whole card & reading it, that you can tell.
There's so many sellers of fakes. I've got refunds, but most sellers just keep selling them, ebay doesn't care.
I found the same, Futu/Shopping Express (not square) + pc.byte are one of the few selling legit cards that I've found so far.
Thanks for this will test it out.
I had ordered one from them that came a week ago and the size was supposed to be 64gb but reading on Windows showed 59gb… Still I tested it out on my drone and it captured footage well
Is Apus the same as Shopping Square?
EDIT: Just checked my eBay purchase history and they are. I better run some checks on mine when I get home. Damn!!
Yes, they are the same outfit. And everything I've bought from them has been genuine.
Dispath/delivery times are sometimes horrible, but they appear to be shipping decent product.
Never got mine from these guys, had to put in an eBay dispute.
ordered quite a few time, got all of them. all working great.
Slow shipping is one thing, but accusations of their stock being fake is another. I think you were just unlucky to have received a fake card (from a bad supplier) given that they have hundreds of thousands of feedback and barely any negatives are about the cards being fake - most are slow shipping times/misinformation about dispatch etc. Compare that to the positive feedback, where the majority is from selling memory cards…
Shopping square is pretty dodgy…
Ya I get the impression they are, but like I don't think they'd knowingly sell fakes you know what I mean? I'm guessing when they are running short of stock with angry customers chasing them, they resort to going to dodgier suppliers and that's what happens.
Hearing they are fake from different people in the comments section and then also the fact that their customer service is terrible and the only option is to PayPal dispute is a red flag.
I will be steering clear of these guys!!
A substantial portion of reports of "fakes" come from people who are using poor equipment to run their tests (phones, crappy USB ports and card readers etc). And there's this phenomenon where as soon as one person raises a doubt more people go off and run tests using their crappy equipment and testing methodologies and then come back to report their less-than-advertised speeds, which illegitimately confirm the fake hypothesis.
I know for a fact that there are fakes out there. It's an epidemic really. But there are also frequent "outbreaks" of false positives here and elsewhere.
For the record I have ordered about 5 cards of various types and sizes from these guys over the last couple of years or whatever and they have all been genuine. Grey imports, and poor dispatch/delivery times, and poor communication, but genuine.
Recieved mine after a eBay dispute from the last deal
Hmm, I ordered a 128GB card from them recently and it is definitely a legit Samsung EVO+ microSD card. I test all my SD cards using a tool called H2testw and the 128GB card was hitting over 65MB/s write and 80MB/s read off my SD card reader on my laptop. The card also returned no errors.
The shipping did however take over 2 weeks. They took 1 week to ship my product and I got it the week later via Australia post.
Instead of updating the page when they sell out they keep taking people's money and send them a "sorry we're of stock" message, hoping that they'll wait (weeks/months) for the next batch to come in.
I dunno.. I've had some run in's with Shopping Square about them changing from Australian Stock to HK stock and taking over a month to get here. But I've always received it and always a legit card with full capacity and speeds. Not sticking up for them or anything, but just to say I havent experienced fake cards or non delivery before and I've bought at least a dozen things from them in the past couple of years including at least 6 SD cards.
Totally rubbish on my goro5!!!!!
This is what happened to me, but dont let me stop you from buying with them.
ordered few cards from them a while back.
waited almost 3 weeks before I lodge the complain which they replied saying that it's on the way and asked me to wait a little bit more, so I did for another week before lodging the dispute.
got my money refunded and never see the items.
shopping square should not be allowed on here because there are so many issues with them.
yeah, but I suppose the good thing is whenever a deal of their's get posted, people come to bag them out, so at least people get to know they're bad (especially the newbies).
They do now but how many have to waste hours over their crap? Posting their deals does this site no favours.
using the blackmagic disk test, I'm getting 60MB/s write & 80MB/s read
slightly higher than my F3 test with 57MB/s write & 74MB/s read
do these numbers line up with an authentic card?
They line up reasonably well with their 100MB/s read and 60MB/s write claim considering that testing equipment and methodology can be a performance variable as well.
Using a Samsung MicroSD to SD adapter, in a USB 3.0 card reader, connected to a USB 3.1 gen2 USB port, my results look like this: http://i.imgur.com/00jk3sV.png
Capacity checks out too.
how are people going with their cards? I received mine after a couple of weeks.
Need a USB 3 card reader before testing it with h2testw
Just received mine after using Ebay dispute. I got it any way. But it is not easy.