Official Sony2GB High Speed PRO DUO memory cards for £12!!

shareef

I have one of these fakes in my psp, and they work very well.

Flimber

StockportGerbil wrote:

Folks :-
Are we losing the point here?

I don't care who manufactures the memory - I just want it to work. If it does not work as advertised / specified then I can send it back.

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No. The thread is titled "Official Sony2GB High Speed PRO DUO memory cards for £12!!" and the OP goes on to write " This IS the official sony high speed card..." (emphasis his). So the naysayers are not missing the point at all but I know who is

DJ_Dunk

I would liken buying a fake card to buying a fake Rolex watch. Yes it looks the same, hell it even tells the time, but sooner or later your arm will turn green and its hands will fall off

I bought a fake from eBay which was quoted as being real. It failed to hold the total 2Gb capacity, so I sent it back, for a refund or replacement with a genuine card . . . they sent me a refund.

StockportGerbil

Flimber wrote:

No. The thread is titled "Official Sony2GB High Speed PRO DUO memory cards for £12!!" and the OP goes on to write " This IS the official sony high speed card..." (emphasis his). So the naysayers are not missing the point at all but I know who is

Alright - sorry I should have read the title more closely. :-(

Having said that, the 2Gb card I bought via the Amazon marketplace for £16 all in, claims to be official sony 2Gb high speed. It looks pukka (as described in the how to spot fakes on ebay) article. I'll try the capacity over the weekend and report back.

Regards

Kev

Flimber

No probs, SG. Wasn't having a go, just stating the obvious

FloFlo

DJ_Dunk wrote:

I would liken buying a fake card to buying a fake Rolex watch. Yes it looks the same, hell it even tells the time, but sooner or later your arm will turn green and its hands will fall off

I bought a fake from eBay which was quoted as being real. It failed to hold the total 2Gb capacity, so I sent it back, for a refund or replacement with a genuine card . . . they sent me a refund.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Repo

StockportGerbil wrote:

Folks :-
Are we losing the point here?

I don't care who manufactures the memory - I just want it to work. If it does not work as advertised / specified then I can send it back.

I think that you are missing the point. By the time that most people's fake cards fail in x months time the eBay or Marketplace seller will have disappeared; be trading under a new account or just plain ignore you.

The bottom line is that you've been ripped off and that's all there is to it.

Totoriko

Repo wrote:

I think that you are missing the point. By the time that most people's fake cards fail in x months time the eBay or Marketplace seller will have disappeared; be trading under a new account or just plain ignore you.

The bottom line is that you've been ripped off and that's all there is to it.

Yep that's right. The fake card which just died a couple of days ago can't be returned now. The seller is no longer an eBayer.

feival

Just got my £!0.50 2Gb Sandisk card from ebay. Item located in Ilford, London but posted from China! Works well so far and "appears" identical to my Sandisk 512Mb (that was genuine since it came with my phone which came direct from T-Mobile). Don't care if it is fake or not since at that price as long it works I am happy.

anewman

feival wrote:

Don't care if it is fake or not since at that price as long it works I am happy.

What some people aren't getting is that fakes are fakes for a reason. Yes Sony and Sandisk have a big grip on the market in that they will not licence the technology to other manufacturers so they can keep their own prices high. However, the high prices is what brings out the fakers. There's money to be made - and the money is being made by giving you something that's just not the real deal. The fact it was posted from China (the faking capital of the world) is not at all hopeful.

I strongly recommend people do not knowingly buy fakes. People will say they work, but on the whole those people will have put one MP3 on it after opening the box. Most are repartitioned fakes and will experience difficulties when adding beyond the physical limit of the memory itself.

Buy right first time, buy and make sure you get a genuine card. There's just no reason to risk money on a fake when you can buy a genuine one.