Could it not be that you see more cheapo cards because far more cheap
cards are sold than expensive cards?
Unless you know the sales ratios, you can't form any conclusions at all
from the number of cards coming through your workshop.
You are correct, and I did mean to address that in my original post.
Granted, the cheapass cards are bought in much higher quantities than the
higher-end cards, but the shop I work at sees a wide range of customers,
from grandparents who don't know diddly about digital watches, let alone
cameras, to professional wedding photographers and photojournalists. We
also sell a LOT of tier 1 cards (Lexar Professional primarily, but our
Promaster-branded cards are tier 1 cards from Delkin, from what I've been
told). Matter of fact, the majority of cards we sell are tier 1, which is
why a lot of entry-level consumers tend to balk at their prices compared to
what they can get at Costco.
Relatively speaking, it is pretty rare when a photographer comes in with a
bad pro card, and our Promaster cards generally only come back with problems
when the user failed to format it before using it.
So anyway, yeah, I wish I had numbers to back up what I wrote, but that's
not really possible for me. Maybe I should start keeping notes on what
sorts of cards I get.
I just had a thought: would it be safe to assume that people who buy a
cheapass card would be more likely to just throw it away when it becomes
defective than people who buy more expensive cards? Assuming most people
don't know about data recovery services, I would think consumers who buy a
cheap card would be more inclined to just replace it simply because they
didn't have a large investment in it. This is, of course, just conjecture.
John Celio
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