The Marketing and advertising style for the product paged you linked tells an entire story. Here is how I read it ....
<ad> USB 2.0 Flash Drive !! 32 GB !! Lots of SEO buzz words and exclamation marks !! !! Size: 256 GB !! Model: USB 3.0 !!! Brand: needyouknow Must you know? I don't think so! The Item is Perfect !!!!! BUY BUY BUY !! This item 100% NEW !! Give me to all your friends !! Perfect Gift !! Your BEST Online Business Friend !! 100% NOT a scam !! BUY !! </ad> The Brand name is really what gets me though. needyouknow ? ;-) On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:40 PM, wes <p...@the-wes.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:39 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:30:25 -0700 > > John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: > > > > >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. > > > > Yep. I just brought up the listing and, sure enough, the seller has > > modified it after the sale. I don't know if it will show up for y'all, > > but here is the link: > > > > https://tinyurl.com/yaptv9sf > > > > If that doesn't work, it is item 163143044072. > > > > Interestingly, the price has also been lowered (although I have the > > PayPal transaction). And the seller changed the size and price, but it > > still has the pic that says 256GB. > > > > > Under "Item specifics" it still says "Storage Capacity: 256GB" > > It also claims to be usb3, of which I'm very skeptical. As for "who dun it" > ... it occurs to me that this seller could just as easily have purchased > these believing they were 256gb drives, and only learned they were fakes > after selling some and getting complaints. Hopefully they are cooperative > with your return. > > Incidentally, I bought a pack of 5 of these (correctly labeled) for about > $35 earlier this year. I tested them by putting a bunch of data on them, > though now I'm probably going to install f3 just to see what it says. I'm > happy enough with them that I just ordered a new set. Here's to hoping > they're also real... > > If you do end up finding a real 256gb drive for a reasonable price, please > let us know. I wouldn't mind getting one or two myself. I'm just not > willing to buy a bunch of them to find out which ones are real. > > -wes > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
