On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 22:40:33 -0700
wes <[email protected]> dijo:
>Under "Item specifics" it still says "Storage Capacity: 256GB"
To follow up on the scam, I filed a return request with eBay in which I
stated as the reason that they were fake. This morning I got an eBay
message from the seller:
Dear buyer: Really sorry for the trouble caused for you. Your
satisfaction is always our most priority. We checked with our
seller and warehosue find that our careless seller made wrong
listing, accurately what we sell is the one you received. our
shop have thousands listings. as a person, everyone may make
mistakes, we'd like say sorry again for our mistakes. Could we
refund you USD9.98 as a compensation for our mistake，you can
keep it ok? we are doing our best to help you with the problem,
pls don't leave any negative or natural feedback to us, is that
OK ? we are begging you !
I replied that it would be acceptable if they refund the full amount
that I paid, not the 9.98. And I should add that the drives have a
sticker on them that says 256G. They knew exactly what they were trying
to do.
I should also add that there are several Malaysia based eBay sellers
that are using the same Chino, CA warehouse.
>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.
Indeed, I just bought two from Best Buy on eBay for $49.99 each.
https://tinyurl.com/yalyq35h
I found quite a few 256GB drives priced starting at a bit over $40, but
when I saw these I decided that saving a few bucks buying from unknown
sellers wasn't worth it. If these are fake I can take them to a Best
Buy store and pound my shoe on the counter.
I should also add that during my shopping I found that PNY drives sell
for a bit less than the competition. Yet I have had a PNY 128GB USB
3.0 drive for several years and it has worked flawlessly, so the
fact that the Best Buy drives were PNY doesn't bother me.
And I should also add that I discarded every SanDisk drive from
consideration. A long time ago I bought a SanDisk and they added their
own advertising file manager that could not be removed. And they're
still doing it, adding their proprietary 'vault' to 'protect your
files.' I might be able to nuke it and reformat ext4, but I don't want
to take the risk.
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