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[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
It was only a few years ago when I bought a 8GB(yes EIGHT) card for my

camera for $217. These days, the same 8GB card is about $5 or $6. :)

If the $16 64GB card works, then I don't see what the problem is.

(as in being able to format it to FAT32 and copy 50GB or more

without any problems reading or corrupting for at least a year)

I'm pretty sure it cost less than $5 to manufacture these cards.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] KillaHurtz:
I just pulled the trigger, and I'm not worried. I'm covered by Visa, PayPal & eBay, so it would be stupid to not try. Have never had a problem with a seller on eBay, if they give you a problem threaten to leave bad feedback and have eBay settle it. They will be begging to give you a refund and be done.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nucgaek:
As someone has already said, the seller may not care about feedback if it's a final scam or the account is hacked, and they could disconnect their bank account or transfer their money and PayPal won't care
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
that does seem very likely... final scam or hacked account...

Worst case scenario is the loss of the money already paid to the seller, right?

$16 is not a huge deal, but maybe that's just what the scammer is counting on?

Shipping a card back to China with tracking will cost a few bucks. Most people

will most likely just forget about it.

On the other hand, many people here have ordered the cards, so it will be

interesting to see what the outcome is.

If it turns out to be a real Sandisk 64GB card, I'll probably order half a dozen! :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nucgaek:
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't ship anything at all. An easy 10k+ if the scammer gets away with it, with probably a few thousand sales
[Galaxy S III Accessories] rizel23:
The guys sold 637 in the space of just over a week, so about 10K, not a bad week
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kms108:
I dont see why some members just keeps posting it's fake..., we all get the point, as most of us who has gone for the purchased we're not to bothered, it's only USD17, we can claim the money back or just forget about it.

It's not the end of the world, I think we can all live without USD 17.:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] KingOfThaJungle:
Not to mention the content of the feedback itself!! If you read the comments they are constantly repeated, by the same "buyer" sometimes too, over and over again!..."Excellent, excellent seller. Thank you for your dedication" appears 10x on the 1st page alone, and then again throughout the history of his feedback comments.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
Since the Chinese did generously manufacture the uniforms for the United States Olympic Team this year, I say we give the seller(s)

the benefit of doubt.... innocent until proven guilty? :D

There are at least two sellers with the exact same card with near-identical descriptions in the auctions. They have multiple buy-it-now

auctions that all ended with 49 buyers... Here are two examples:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160855217606#ht_2509wt_1170

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190707919764#ht_2283wt_1170

They are apparently in two different Chinese cities a few hundred miles apart. Interesting that they both have around 500+ positive

feedbacks. Both just suddenly decided to get into the Sandisk memory card business within the last couple of weeks. Both selling it

at the same $16.99 price.

It's also interesting to note that the US Post Office charges $16.95(Int'l Priority Mail) to mail something to China with tracking.

The other option is int'l first class mail for a couple of dollars, but offers not tracking. I'm willing to bet that if you have to ship

the card back to China, the seller will claim that it never arrived. If you spend $16.95 to ship with tracking, you might as well

just forget about it, as it makes zero financial sense. $16.99 - $16.95 = $0.04 You get 4 cents back in the end. :D

Someone should contact Sandisk and see what they think about this. It's not just a couple of possibly fake cards. We are talking over 700.

If Sandisk is serious about protecting its brand, they should probably look into this. Oh wait, I forgot, Sandisk is not Apple.... :rolleyes:

As for the authenticity of this $16.99 card, there's one way to verify it 100%. Send it to Sandisk for warranty exchange. That's what

I did a couple of years ago. I bought a $20 CF card off eBay. That card's retail price was about $109 at the time. A week and half

later, Sandisk sent me a replacement card. This pretty much told me that the $20 one I ordered was genuine or else Sandisk wouldn't

have replaced it. So I ended up 5 more of those CF cards at $20 each.... they still work fine as of today. :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] clockcycle:
Some have mentioned the "good feedback", took time to read what the feedback was actually for, most of it is for "New 7 LED Color Colour Hello Kitty Digital ALARM CLOCK"...

Was 1 of 49 left on second listing, while I was reading feedback, someone bought that last one.

Anyone get theirs yet?

EDIT: I bought one of these off some other vendor a few months back for $17.99 - Before long, I logged in to ebay to check for other items and status, I had a message from the seller with "tracking" information, but it came up blank. Shortly I had a message from ebay telling me they were refunding me and closed the listing and the account. Originally the seller had lots of positive feedback, but suddenly from selling cute stuff to lots of listings selling memory products.. Eventually I actually did get a package delivered from the vendor, with the exact tracking information he had provided. In the package was antique US silver coin that could have been worth $7,000.00 (if it was real)....
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
I wonder if those Hello Kitty clocks are authorized by Sanrio. :) Probably not. :D

As for receiving these these questionable 64GB cards, nobody will be reporting back here for at least a week or two. Regular mail(even a

single sheet of letter in a plain envelope) from China to the US takes a long time.... probably longer, since the seller is no doubt using bulk

or commercial air mail.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mikeeey:
Well in the meantime while we're not sure about this card, I can confirm that this Class 10 Samsung 32GB sold from a Chinese seller is in fact GREAT!:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251089131270?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

This is the same samsung card you see going everywhere on ebay for $30+

I'm not sure why in the picture they've edited out the "Samsung" text, mine says it, just like the other $30+ ones I mentioned.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
let's say these cards are in fact FAKE or STOLEN PROPERTY, isn't it illegal for me to ship it back to the seller? Knowingly mailing a product using the US Postal Service is a federal crime, no? I'm sure the Postal Inspectors and/or Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE) will want to have a little chat with you. :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Pagaldesi4life:
I'd rather spend a little more and buy from a seller that actually is selling a genuine sd card. It's def a knock off for sure.

On a side note, I bought a 32gb sd card for $17.75 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170881393754 from a seller in the US. Got it within 3 days, so far so good!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
on another Galaxy S III forum in RW, several people have reported getting emails from eBay... apparently these auctions are being cancelled by eBay.

I've received no such email yet.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jbzcar:
Yup, I posted that over on rootz.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] silent_eve:
I just bought one lets hope its a genuine one!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
strangely, I just received an email from the seller with the China Post tracking confirmation number about 10 minutes ago. (no way to tell if I'll be receiving the actual microSDXC card or a half-dollar coin, as some have suggested)

I went to the auction page and it was not removed by eBay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAP...&ssPageName=ADME:X:AAQ:US:1123#ht_1830wt_1194

Unless eBay cancelled the other one selling the identical Sandisk 64GB microSDXC card for the same $16.99 price?

I'm so confused right now. :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Michael_P:
I wonder how many of these they sold because I'm still convinced you all gonna get nothing and the seller does a runner and everyone's gonna have to go through the hassle of getting a refund.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] 1SiK1500:
even if they are fake and horrible. XDA members will ruin this guys seller rating lol... :good:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
okay, I'm confused... :confused:

if they really turn out to be fake and horrible, why wouldn't you want to ruin this guy's seller rating? :highfive:

Isn't that what eBay's seller rating system is for? (good ratings for good products and bad ratings for fake products?) :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] paullu:
I just check the seller feedback find out one guy left feedback for 64gb sdxc card to him see picture below.

so what you guys say:laugh:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
but that buyer is in Singapore.....
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Electricview:
The problem is some regular joes might buy these and then put them in their phone and it "works" but it could be 1x speed for all you know, and that regular joe just never happens to try to capture direct HD video captuer on to it (which would be waaaay to slow to record 1080p HD video) and only uses it to store pictures on or transfer files to and from and never notices it takes him 1 hour to transfer a 100 meg file or just never questions the speed of the card at all.

Its a good possiblity you'll get "a" 64 gig card, but if its slower than rocks, will you be satisified with your purcahse still?

the old addage, If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, Still applies, even to ebay.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kms108:
there is only 2 microsdxc available on the market and both are sandisk, this one on ebay being the slowest one, so it can't get any slower.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Araltd:
Has anyone actually received a card yet? I'm just curious.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
No... but after checking "China Post" for several days, the tracking number finally appeared in their system. The number was emailed to me on 7/28. http://yjcx.chinapost.com.cn/ Use Google translate, as I dont' think they have a tracking page in English.

Unfortunately, all it said was the package was "en route to" with no explanation. It could be en route to Vladivostok for all I know. :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ashwin123:
Guys am stupid, I read the first post, ordered it, then it stuck me, so skipped to the end and started reading all comments...

Anyway I make android videos on my youtube channel, If/when I receive this (I might receive it sooner cuz India borders China... lol :D) Ill make a detailed video with transfer rates, effect on burst mode, whether it holds the full data and so on... let me know what else needs to be checked.

Ash

EDIT:

For all those people worrying about tracking numbers, international sellers from ebay (shipping out of china) usually dont provide tracking numbers or the ones they provide give dont give accurate details and say something generic like "in transit"...

Since most top sellers and sites dont ship to India I have had experience with quite a few of these... usually the product takes a lot of time in transit (but that could by our chaotic customs dept.) and sometimes doesnt arrive, but everytime its been lost I have gotten a refund... just wanted to share my exp.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] insomnia:
any update guys ? are these the real deal ?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
The deal is real alright. In the sense that we were able to buy the card on eBay and pay the $16 using PayPal.

Is the card real? That is the question! :D (worse, will we receive a coin instead of a card, like in those flash card scams? :) )

I don't really worry about the $16. God knows I've wasted more money on useless junk. :D (who hasn't, right? :D )

What worries me is that the card turns out to be real/genuine. Because that means I should have ordered 5 instead!!! :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Allegrotechie:
Did you get it yet?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] cali4nia831:
In for one. Hopefully i get the real deal, sounds too good to be true and it probably is but $16 is worth the gamble. Im covered by ebay buyer protection if i dont get it anyways.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] psziel:
just went to order one and flash transaction blocked and looked and the auction was killed....hmmm could be a sign
[Galaxy S III Accessories] cali4nia831:
Or they sold out. When i bought mine it said 10 sold then i checked it a couple mins later and said 49 sold and the listing ended.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] lee.asid:
this sounds really too good to be true. Anyone got their cards yet?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
It was sold out. The seller had two identical auctions today with 49 cards each.

All 98 were sold out extremely quickly. (probably thanks to this and other threads

discussing it?)

Between this seller and the other seller(both located in China, 600 miles apart)

with IDENTICAL auctions.... they have sold about 833 64GB MicroSDXC cards.

If the cards turn out to be fake, that's a LOT of negative feedbacks!!! :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Allegrotechie:
So we all leave him negative feedback and then his ebay account gets taken down. Simple!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ashwin123:
Here in India most ebay orders get delivered via normal post, that means no signature required... if its a fake, can say not received (...hopefully it should work :) )
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Triskite:
look at his feedback, the guy looks totally legit. i'd say you all are super lucky and he just posted the wrong price by accident.

or he'll refund you and ask to cancel when he sees the error
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
not a chance. :) 99% of the seller's positive ratings are from items under $2.

pricing mistake? again, no... not after he/she has sold at least 300 of these

$16 MicroSDXC cards.

the only possibilities that I can think of are:

(1) fake card (2GB cards reprogrammed to appear as 64GB cards)

(2) fake card (counterfeit cards with 64GB capacity)

(3) substandard cards rejected by Sandisk factory, not menat to be sold

(4) auction scam

(5) seller's acct was hijacked

(6) stolen genuine cards being sold cheaply
[Galaxy S III Accessories] insomnia:
Best chance is that these will be "fake" san disk look alike 64 gb card that run slower than class 2.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Skander1998:
Well, he scams people.. you can simply get this card for free.

1) Buy the card.

2) Receive it and run h2testw.exe

3) You "discover" that it's fake.

4) Open an ebay/paypal case and post the results, complain about the seller asking for a return shipping, and ask for a refund.

5) You get your money back, paypal/ebay asks you to DESTROY the card and not give it back/sell it.

6) You have a spare 2GB card for free.

I did this, worked every time, fake Samsung/Sandisk cards.. etc.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] coojoe1000:
HONESTLY IT'S OUR MONEY AND SPENDING IT IS OUR RIGHT. IF THE CARDS SHOW UP AND ARE EXACTLY WHAT WE ORDERED...GREAT. IF THEY DON'T...BUMMER, WE GET OUR MONEY BACK FROM PAYPAL OR CREDIT CARD COMPANY. I WILL SAY THAT BEST BUY (MOST OVERPRICED STORE ON EARTH) IS SELLING THESE CARDS FOR $50 NOW, SO IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME IF SOMEONE COULD BUY THEM DIRECTLY FROM THE MANUFACTURER AND GET AN INSANE BULK DISCOUNT. TIME WILL TELL. WORSE CASE SCENARIO GO BUY A REAL CARD FROM BEST BUY AND RETURN THE FAKE ONE :angel: JUST KIDDING, NONE OF US WOULD DO THAT....
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kms108:
I agree, I dont know what all the fuss is about, fake or real we have nothing to lose.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nucgaek:
As above
[Galaxy S III Accessories] coojoe1000:
Actually this is the kind of mindset that makes me laugh. The idea that credit card companies won't legally be responsible anymore since it was a scam. That's why the money is protected... in the event of a scam or defect. Why then would they not cover the only thing the protection is there for? This is why years ago uneducated people were fooled by scam companies into buying insurance for their credit cards. Yes PayPal is in it for the money... which is the exact reason they will want to keep the customers that keep that money flowing happy. They don't have a choice anyways as they have legally obligated themselves when they accepted payment on behalf of the seller. Ugh rant over.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ashwin123:
Thanks buddy... wanted to say the same thing but too lazy to type :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Ziken:
so, you mean to tell me that as long as you don't pay more than 30$ for a 64gb sdxc, you're satify? this is what wrong with the current generation. nowaday, it all about how to get more for less. what happen to inventing things so you get more and not worry bout the extra crap. this is also why landfills are filling up fast. with fake stuff being sold on ebays, it harder to even figure out why we even waste money on junks.

i rather pay for it. and if i have to pay $50 frm best buy, at least i know i have one year warrenty by SanDisk because i have the receipt. if it crap out, i can get a replacement from either best buy or sandisk. if you purchase it from ebay, sandisk isn't gonna cover it as ebay is not on their retail store.

also, ordering from ebay? negative feedback? what are you? 5? who said the seller only had to make one? in this age and time, it not that hard to make multiple accounts, emails, and paypal accounts, you know? it not even that hard to transfer money out of paypal within 3 days and not worry. heck, i wouldn't be surprised if they have several accounts to transfer the money through so it can't be trace. this is why i rather go buy it from local stores than ordering online. i'll only order online IF it online only or for products that can't be store in locals store.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ashwin123:
So are saying it was wrong for us to order this online or just wrong to order online???
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
64GB memory must be really cheap in China right now...

my friend just bought this 64GB USB flash drive a month ago... he said it has worked fine so far. (but he only uses it to store MP3 random junk)

The auction is only for 99 cents.... so I think we must have paid way too much for the $16.99 64GB MicroSDXC.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yellow-64GB...23?pt=US_USB_Flash_Drives&hash=item3cc982dc2f
[Galaxy S III Accessories] insomnia:
no one received one yet ?????
[Galaxy S III Accessories] KillaHurtz:
Yeah mofugga.

Seriously, let's keep this thread for people that have bought it to comment as we receive them or not.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ergibson83:
LOL, thats exactly what you're gonna do. Damn, I should have ordered one now....
[Galaxy S III Accessories] clockcycle:
In countries where people make $20usd a year, even if they get away with a little money it's worth their scam effort...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] justinblaine23:
Lol that's funny

Please hit thanks if I helped! Sent from my GS3
[Galaxy S III Accessories] htcsnap93:
I have once seen pictures of a external harddisk wich should have 1TB of space. Turned out there was a 2GB pendrive inside the case of the the external drive.

Based on this story.

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-magic-drive.html

I bet this is the new scam trens
[Galaxy S III Accessories] paul.p:
Looks like he's selling iPods and iPod nanos now too...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] silent_eve:
Hmm That doesnt looks good..
[Galaxy S III Accessories] dlrudwns:
thy still have items being sold but not sure if i should trust them......
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Product F(RED):
All you people yelling at the ones warning you are retarded. We're trying to save you $17 and wasted time and here you are trying to reason with us that this guy is going to pay more to ship a memory card then the card is even worth. 99% of all memory cards sold on ebay are fake. It's the worst place to buy them. But by all means, ignore me and send your money to a con artist.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] theking_13:
Hopefully not a scam, but all signs point towards it.

Meanwhile, enjoying my Samsung 32 GB Class 10 that I got off of frys.com... :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SarahKirschbaum:
Just for fun, I contacted Sandisk support. They asked me to send large pictures of

the front and back of the card, so I sent them pictures of the 64GB MicroSDXC

Class 6 card that I bought from BestBuy. ($59+tax from the local Best Buy

store) I told them that I bought the card from a garage sale.

I got this card from Best Buy for my other Android device. Now I'm going to return

it to Best Buy, since Sandisk said it was counterfeit. Perhaps when the $16 card

from China arrives, I should send pictures of it, along with a Best Buy receipt to

Sandisk. Will they then tell me that it's genuine? :(

They replied today and informed me that it was

not

a genuine Sandisk product. !!!???

I wasn't sure how that was even possible, so I called them back. Spoke to some

supervisor and she said "if you bought the card from Best Buy and have a

receipt, then it's genuine, but if you don't have a Best Buy receipt, then it is

a counterfeit card..." That made me even more confused, so I asked "what if

I sold the card on eBay and didn't provide the buyer my original BestBuy receipt?"

She said "then the card will not be considered genuine..."

Not one who easily gives up, I continued to ask: "what if I send you the card

to you so you can tell me with certainty that it's genuine?" She replied "if you

have a Best Buy receipt, then we don't need to see the card... all we need is

the pictures you already sent us of the front & back of the card!"
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Michael_P:
All you doing when you buy this obvious fake is giving this seller a load of extra money because thousands of people are gonna see this deal as impossible to resist, so you might all think it's alright because you can just get a PayPal refund but you still funding someone who's basically a crook.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] w98seeng:
I love all the people who are telling others that they are crazy for buying the card.

We took a chance because

1) It's an incredable price

2) The seller's feedback score was good

3) eBay and PayPal will cover the cost of the item if it turns out to be counterfeit

4) It has pretty colors

I bought a car dock for my S3, the Infuse 4G dock that AT&T is selling for $17.99. My sister (in Ft. Worth, TX) bought it for me and a family member brought it back to me (I'm in Montreal) when they visited her.

Well, the phone cradle and the mounting bracket had different clips on them so the two pieces would not fit together. I went to Samsung's customer service center here and they said "what is that?" I couldn't get it replaced here so I had to fix it myself by gluing the two pieces together.

My point is that at anytime someone can get screwed when buying online. We just take the chance that we will receive what we ordered.

Ian