128GB Pen Drives

Mercutio

Mercutio

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There seem to be a number of Ebay sellers offering 128GB pen drives for $20 - $30 at the moment. I'm not sure what the scam is, or whether there is a scam, but since those drive normally retail north of $250, I thought I'd share it with you all.

Here's a sample auction. There are others.
 
Direct from China flash memory at unbelievably low prices? Yeah, I'd trust that with may data.:tdown:
 
LunarMist said:
Direct from China flash memory at unbelievably low prices? Yeah, I'd trust that with may data.:tdown:
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It's flash memory. It either holds data or it doesn't.

Yeah, I bought one. 128GB is enough to hold all my prepared install images on one drive.
 
Enjoy some portion of it not working. :silent:

Of course the seller will offer you a replacement if you send it back, but shipping it back to China with tracking will cost you more than you paid for it.
 
When I was in China, I bought an 8GB USB drive in a market for about $8, at the time that was friggin' huge. I was skeptical, so I pulled out my laptop and plugged it in. Sure enough it reported 8GB, and when I went to copy an 8GB file to it, it happily copied away and showed the file as being there. However, when I viewed the properties of the file, it showed 0KB, and could not be opened. Of course, I didn't do that last step until I had bought some and gone home.
 
Mercutio said:
It's flash memory. It either holds data or it doesn't.

Yeah, I bought one. 128GB is enough to hold all my prepared install images on one drive.
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I hope it holds yoert data. I don't trust anything until it has been tested many times. Or maybe it is because I can't order anything from China.
 
Depending on the seller, some accept other forms of payment. When I sold things on eBay I accepted Paypal, cashiers checks, money orders, and personal checks with a 2 week waiting period.
 
udaman said:
U don't need a PP acct.

U can pay for ebay stuff, or other sites via PP using a CC (most sellers accept) w/o setting up an acct.
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Actually, you can't. After putting a certain amount through paypal transactions (IIRC $5k), they require bank acct information or they don't let you continue. Fuck that.
 
I created a separate bank account for paypal to protect my own interests. I know that seems like a pain, but it's the best I could think of where situations require paypal and I want the item being sold.
 
I remember an old scam - the flash drive was touted as, say, 2GB, indicated as such in Windows, but was actually a 256 MB drive with hacked firmware that lied. Or something like that.
 
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