David, Did you contact SanDisk support and verify that your Sandisk flash drives are not counterfeit? It's easy to do on their website.
I suspect that the markets are being flooded with (Chinese probably) counterfeit SanDisk flash drives with pretty much identical packaging and so that it looks just like the real product. I haven't had any experience with any other SanDisk products, but when I was pricing these flashdrives I easily found sources on the net offering bulk prices of $45 for a 25 piece lot. I'm sure my credit card will take care of the money, but it has been a hassle time-wise, first of all having to spend a lot of time messing around with the flashdrives trying to get them to work, and then doing the paperwork and contact work to try to straighten out the problem. SanDisk says my 2 units are counterfeit and that I should contact eBay and the seller and return them and get my money back. I have contacted eBay saying that SanDisk tells me that my units are counterfeit, but have not received a response yet. I will have to go through the all reporting steps to my credit card and everybody and see what happens. I hardly ever buy anything on eBay, and now I would be really suspicious of any of their electronic products as being counterfeit. I just asked SanDisk how they recommend that I purchase one of their flashdrives to be sure that it is not counterfeit & if, for future purchases, I should ask the seller for the Vendor ID # of the unit(s) before the purchase so I can verify them with SanDisk. I'll be curious to see what SanDisk's answer may be. Counterfeit products can make shopping on the internet hazardous! eBay needs to set up a certification procedure to certify that the seller's products a guaranteed to be genuine. Otherwise eBay will just be a fence for counterfeit electronic products from China. If anything interesting happens in this matter I'll post an update. I expect things will just muck around and that Mastercard will cover the charges when I dispute them with a ton of documentation. I will be calling Mastercard soon. Wayne Jr On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:12:34 -0800, David Looney wrote: > > I've had nothing but problems with smaller (256-512MB) "Cruzer" > flash drives. Using SuSE, I have been unable to access or use the > drives, either from the start, or after little use. Some friends > have had the same experience. Other people I know using windows > have lost everything on the drive when switching between different > flavors of Windows or between Mac and Windows (I've seen it happen > just when they try to plug in to transfer their PowerPoint for a > presentation ). > > In contrast, I've never had any problems with Memorex flash drives. > > YMMV, but I've concluded SanDisk uses poor quality chips and/or > weird formatting, and one need not invoke counterfeiters to explain > failure. > > David Looney > > Wayne Jr wrote: >> FYI. I contacted SanDisk and they suggested that the 4.0GB Cruzer >> Mini drives I purchased (on eBay) were probably counterfeit. >> SanDisk requested the vendor IDs of the flash drives which I can >> see from Device Manager/Details and I just submitted those >> numbers to them, but I strongly suspect they are right and that >> these flash drives are counterfeit because both of them are >> pretty much useless and worthless. >> > > -- > Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for > the rest of your life. - Michael Sinz -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
