simply-sarahs-ltd Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – United Kingdom
Posted by KittyFireFlash on August 19, 2009
simply-sarahs-ltd is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Registered in the United Kingdom, simply-sarahs-ltd sold 32GB fake flash drives during the spring of 2008. simply-sarahs-ltd sold many false capacity usb flash drives. Almost all victims never got a refund. eBay refused to believe them. Paypal ignored them. It the autumn of 2008, eBay members finally caught up with this fake flash seller and simply-sarahs-ltd was sent off to eBay fake flash prison under a suspension and still remains there today. Beware of this id’s potential return. Thousands of people lost their money and many data files for ever! The behavior of simply-sarahs-ltd is the same current fake flash sellers use, little has changed.
If you look at simply-sarahs-ltd feedback score, today on eBay, it doesn’t look that bad. You need to use: http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=simply-sarahs-ltd&Dirn=Received+by to be able to see the truth! eBay feedback is based on a year period and is designed to erase the truth over time. Use http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs? and type in a sellers name if you want the true picture.
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Paul said
Why are you publishing on sellers from the past? It’s history. Aren’t you guys going after the current scammers? I find this confusing. Probably not the only one being confused here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fake flash victim said
Hi Paul
The site is a bit confusing sometimes!! I think the idea is to make people aware of scam IDs that may return. Seems a bit daft to me – after all if you suspect someone on ebay is selling fakes you can just search on each of the blogs for that ebay ID to see if there are any articles about them!
KittyFireFlash said
To Paul, Fake Flash Victim and Everyone
We have a duty to victims from the pre – internet era of the FrankenFlash Project. They laid the corner stones for the Project.
These early victims fought hard, few ever saw a refund. If you are succeeding in pulling a refund out of a fake flash seller or PayPal, you can thank them for their battering rams at the gates. They sacrificed their refunds, fell on their swords leaving negatives at a time when it was a guarantee you would not get a refund if you did. They refused to be subject to blackmail – changing feedback for money.
Unfortunately since we did not have a public voice, alerts on their sellers never went out. We owe it to them, to record their fake flash sellers for the public record.
There is also another reason.
If you examine some of these alerts, do you see any change? No, same old fake usb flash drives, etc are still being sold. The only difference is that fake flash sellers do not try reprogramme them to ridiculous sizes any longer. They try to stay within the current technological parameters and in fact are more conservative.
The favorite fake size is 16GB. The only difference is, smaller bid price, smaller true capacity chip. Funny how they scaled back on the actual chip sizes in the fakes to match the reduced selling price.
There are also some other reasons why we are issuing them along side current ones. No, we are not short on material, anything but if you look at the last two weeks. We can’t explain what those reasons are publically.
What matters most is one thing:
To show respect for fake flash victims, to let them know they are not forgotten and that we honour their sacrifices in battling fake flash sellers, eBay and PayPal.