honchai9974 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – United Kingdom

honchai9974 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash Kingston USB drives. Based in the United Kingdom, honchai9974 has been identified selling Kingston Counterfeits in multiple units mode per listing. Not confirmed but recently sold are “REFURBISH 4GB SANDISK EXTREME IV CF CARD” using a picture for 8GB. This may be an oversight but very odd. SOSFakeFlash does not know if “refusbished” means reprogramming to the real size or not.

honchai9974 has unfortuantely trapped himself, and we have a serious message for eBay and Paypal regarding Kingston Counterfeit flash drives. This is one article you just can’t pass up reading!

The case of this seller is intriguing. In question are 32GB and 64GB flash drives. honchai9974 first sold “BRAND NEW 32GB KINGSTON FLASH MEMORY CAN VERIFY ON-LINE”, later 64GB Kingston drives. Confirmed is the 64GB.

What caught our interest about the unconfirmed (as yet) 32GB flash drive?

honchai9974 tried to reassure buyers for this drive:

 

and put in this url address to the listing:

So we took him up on his offer and went to: WWW.KINGSTON.COM/CHINA/VERIFYFLASH unfortunately it was in Chinese so we translated it: WWW.KINGSTON.COM/CHINA/VERIFYFLASH – english

This is what we saw:

And that matches perfectly with Kingston’s colour coding for the Datatraveler in this series: Lime/Green is 2GB! Okay then why does the packaging say 32GB? Well at this site they say:

However, like other quality products world-wide company, Kingston in the Asian market rate of high-brand recognition so that it will inevitably be forged. Kingston has found counterfeit brand imitations.

In order to protect the interests of customers and Kingston high-quality brand image, we are here to provide a verification that you can immediately buy the Kingston products are for the genuine website.

So those are the words from Kingston directly.

Hello eBay and PayPal, are you paying attention? SOSFakeFlash doesn’t think we can can make it any clearer to you. We think Kingston makes it very clear to you. eBay is littered with Kingston fakes. You should be able to find an employee to review the listings for Kingston. And it is more than obvious here that PayPal should refund any buyer of a Kingston fake immediately and without question. No nonsense please about having a third party appraiser to stall or hang onto the cash. Kingston is the appraiser, the colour coding is the appraiser. Victims can send you the test results from H2testw 1.4, but you have absolutely no wiggle room here!

eBay and PayPal – Do not attempt to avoid refunding any buyer from honchai9974. Or from any other seller on eBay that has sold Kingston Fake USB drives. It is Your responsibility eBay to ensure that counterfeits are not offered for sale on eBay, whether in Flash Techology or in other merchandise. You are on record, eBay in saying you had 2,000 employee’s engaged to fight fraud. You can surely spare one to patrol for counterfeit band name usb flash drives, it does not take a Phd education – if housewives and truck drivers can be trained in the FrankenFlash Project to be very sharp detectives in a flash (pardon the pun) you can do it to. PayPal, you had better NOT advise that ebay victims return the counterfeit items to the fake flash sellers involved. Instead as we have advised before, you can offer an additional refund (on top of the full refund for item and S/H) to have the eBayer send them to you, so you might send them where they should go – to the brand name manufacturers with full details on where they came from. That would demonstate that you are taking an ethical approach to address the problem. You are also advised to desist from the claims game of time windows.

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March 5th, 2009 – we have 1 eBay listings confirmed fake.

The model sold under the eBay seller honchai9974 All are confirmed as Counterfeit, recorded with eBayer ID and eBay Item Number – Standard Procedure. Presented as listed at auction. Counterfeit items tied to criminal activity enjoy no protection. If you bought one of these usb fake flash drives from honchai9974, you should test immediately with the software H2testw 1.4 . Do not store any important data on the drive until you can confirm you have the advertised capacity (minus formatting overhead).

The model currently on file sold by honchai9974

Should your drive not report the true advertised capacity:

1. Immediately attempt to move any data you have stored on the drive to another source. Be advised if you have stored more than the reported size from H2testw 1.4, you will not be able to recover it all – you can expect to see errors in the copy back.
2. Immediately report to eBay and PayPal to add your voice against this seller.

If the eBay Item number has disappeared from your won list. Please go to PayPal and search through your transactions for the approximate time frame of your purchase. You will find the details of your transaction and ebay item number. PayPal keeps this information for a long time. Use the email address:

complaint-response@paypal.com

Please include:

1. PayPal Transaction Number
2. Ebay Item Number
3. Date Of PayPal Transaction
4. Date Of eBay Item Listing
5. Your eBayer Id
6. Cite eBay Seller honchai9974
7. The results from your testing with H2testw 1.4
8. Any information concerning data loss and it’s value to you

You are to inform them you wish to be part of the investigation against this seller and are adding yourself to the evidence. You expect to be fully refunded for the purchase and shipping and if you can prove data loss compensation for it as well. Furthermore, it is a fact that PayPal and eBay are aware of cases pouring in. You are invited to copy:

SOSFakeFlashDrive@gmail.com

on your correspondence.