I ordered an 8 gig Sony Memory Stick on eBay a week and a half ago and it arrived last Friday. I really haven’t messed with it too much, but I did put on a few videos that I encoded. A few times, the PSP said the videos were corrupted, but for the most part it worked. The memory stick said it had a capacity of ~7700 MB, so I assumed that everything was okay.
Until last night.
I was browsing a PSP forum and came across this:
http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/FAKE-Sony-Memory-Stick-Pro-Duo-MagicGate-Cards-Exposed_W0QQugidZ10000000001535763
Out of curiosity, I looked at my stick, and sure enough, the “T” in the serial number was present, the serial number wasn’t engraved as they said, and I experienced issues with corrupt data.
I filled out the complaint stuff on PayPal and contacted the seller, but I’m willing to bet I’ll be out the $70 I spent for it.
The seller had a solid feedback rating and several other people had bought the same item and left good feedback, so it appeared as though everything was good. The seller was also based in the US, as it seemed many similar products were being sold through Hong Kong, which seemed sketchy. Now I can see why this happened. The fake appears legitimate at first and then breaks down when you put a lot of data on it or use it for about a month or so, well after the time someone would leave eBay feedback. I left positive feedback as well, since I just slapped in the card, put on a movie, and it seemed to work.
Now I know better and to make sure I do more research before just jumping on the lowest price on eBay.
Newegg has a SanDisk 8GB version for ~$85, so I might go with that, knowing I can trust Newegg with their return policy if something goes wrong.
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