Currys bargain SD card twin pack

custardy

williham wrote: »

As other people have posted you can get them cheaper from reputable sellers but I would never buy memory products from eBay, they look real but they are fake and aren't as good as the real thing, slower, corrupted, high failure rates. Most people wouldnt know the difference but it's not worth it to save a couple of £.

you mean the same reputable sellers who also list on eBay?

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Go-to-7dayshop

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/mymemory-uk

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/GizzmoHeaven

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Currys-PC-World

Beetlemama

vicx wrote: »

I've purchased all my Sd cards and USB memory sticks off eBay and never had any problems with being sold cheap fakes. Not everyone on there are dishonest. Play.com are usually similar prices. Currys etc are always overpriced.

We bought a 32gb on ebay that was a fake, had to do the dispute thing to get our money back. Seller had had nothing but good feedback until then. I'd never buy another off an independent seller from a company would be alright.

williham

custardy wrote: »

you mean the same reputable sellers who also list on eBay?

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Go-to-7dayshop

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/mymemory-uk

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/GizzmoHeaven

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Currys-PC-World

Lol obviously selling through eBay is not the problem, I'm talking about the sellers that aren't well known websites that claim to be selling genuine stuff but they're fake.

custardy

williham wrote: »

As other people have posted you can get them cheaper from reputable sellers but I would never buy memory products from eBay, they look real but they are fake and aren't as good as the real thing, slower, corrupted, high failure rates. Most people wouldnt know the difference but it's not worth it to save a couple of £.

williham wrote: »

Lol obviously selling through eBay is not the problem, I'm talking about the sellers that aren't well known websites that claim to be selling genuine stuff but they're fake.

So you would never buy from eBay,but would happily possibly pay more to buy direct from the same seller?

williham

custardy wrote: »

So you would never buy from eBay,but would happily possibly pay more to buy direct from the same seller?

Lol as I said I would happily buy from a reputable seller whoever it's sold through, eBay isn't the problem, it's the sellers that are cheap and claim to sell genuine memory cards when they're fakes.

f256

Just as a heads-up.
I bought a twin pack of 16GB SanDisk Ultra SD cards from PCWorld (same group as Currys) online just before Christmas.
I am fairly sure that they are fake - there are a couple of minor features that just don't match SanDisk product images (e.g. they both have the same serial number and the groove on the front doesn't look the same as on SanDisk cards) and the cards are slower than I expected, just barely managing Class 10 performance.
I have contacted SanDisk and have responded to two further requests from them for additional information about the cards, including benchmarking results.
They are still investigating and have not yet confirmed whether the cards are genuine or counterfeit, though the issue has now been escalated to their Brand Protection team for confirmation.

f256

I've now had a response from SanDisk to say that the SD cards are genuine - despite the different appearance and marginal performance. The identical "serial numbers" are, in fact, a batch number and so common to the two cards..
By introducing undocumented (or at least unexpected) variations in their products that make it more difficult to spot fakes, I think SanDisk are simply playing into the hands of the counterfeiters. Caveat emptor (as always).

superbigal36

Sandisk (Pretty sure) dont make SD cards. They are badged. 99% of SD cards are made by Samsung and Toshiba. Distributors/retailers/Transcend/Integral/Kingston etc will badge up whatever is cheapest at the time or long term deal they have signed..
If you know what you are looking at on the back of the card you can tell who manufactures. NB Different Toshiba factories use different controller chips inside the case.
Therefore never be too blinded by who badges but go by specification.

Our company still produces a product accompanied by a standard 2Gb Card but we specify it must be a Toshiba SD-M02G. We have had them badged from Integral, Kingston & Dane-Elec amongst others.

Regarding fakes. All the best ones actually use old low capacity TSSOP Flash Chips (Maybe 64mb or 128mb) as opposed to the fancy high capacity BGAs. The point of this is that in effect they do work. You just dont get many pictures on them. In the old days they were just empty cases.

I think Sandisk use Samsung in the main if not all the time. The same goes for Transcend.