On 2018-07-20 19:30:25, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:45:37 +0900 > Bryan Linton <p...@shoshoni.info> dijo: > > > Counterfeit USB flash drives are sometimes sold with > > claims of having higher capacities than they actually > > have. These are typically low capacity USB drives which > > are modified so that they emulate larger capacity drives > > (for example, a 2 GB drive being marketed as a 64 GB > > drive). > > Aha! > > [...] > Bad news: The device `/dev/sdd' is a counterfeit of type limbo > [...] > > So there we have it. Both drives will soon be on their way back to > China with complaints filed with eBay. > > Now that I know the truth I looked at the packaging. The only thing in > writing is a heavy paper folded through the blister pack. Reading > through it there is not one word about how big the drive is. There is a > round sticker on the drive itself that says '256G,' but that could > easily have been added by the cons. All they had to do was have the > paper and sticker printed, pop the blister pack apart and apply them, > and place the listing on eBay. > > And considering that the goods say nothing about the size I can guess > what will happen when eBay gets my complaint. The seller will insist > that they never said the drive was 256GB. Well, we'll see what happens. >
The optimist in me wants to believe that maybe it was a crooked employee that switched the larger capacity drives out for a smaller one to sell for his own profit, rather than the entire business being crooked, but I suppose in reality it's just as probable that a single scammer is running the whole operation. > Thanks a million for bringing this up! > You're very welcome! I hope you manage to resolve the situation between you, the seller, and ebay to your satisfaction! -- Bryan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
