kensington153 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Devious – China
Posted by KittyFireFlash on October 1, 2009
kensington153 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake – false capacity) Flash USB drives. Registered in China, kensington153 has used private auctions to sell 64GB and 32GB usb flash drives. kensington153 has just been suspended by eBay!
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Please test your device to ensure you have the advertised capacity with H2testw to ensure you have the advertised capacity. Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.
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Of MP Players, Memory Cards Or USB Flash Drives Purchased On eBay?
To understand about Fake Flash Sellers Read:
- SharpEdge’s Communications With mememao9898 eBay Fake Flash Memory USB Penstick Seller
- fengfeng_joy2008 Fraud – Conversations between THH And Fake Flash Seller On Fake 32GB Memory Cards. Tale of Denial, Bribery And Violation Of eBay’s Feedback Policies
- FAKE 16GB 32GB 64GB – Conversations Between A Fake Flash Seller and A Victim – The Truth About the Scam Exposed
Victim consumer education on nand flash storage chips:
- Flash Memory Prices Are Rising In 2009 – Up To 25% Since April 2009. Danger Of Grade C and D Being Used In False Capacity MP Players, USB Flash Drives And Memory Cards.
- Genuine Verses Fake Counterfeit USB Flash Drives – A Guide – USB Flash Chips Used – Grades A B C D
- What Are The Real Costs For Flash Chips In China? Guide 2009
Important Reading:
- PayPal Refunds Victim Of Fake – False Capacity USB Flash Drives Purchased On Ebay. 8 Month Battle Leads To Success.
- eBay – What To Do When Sellers Demands You Change Your Negative Feedback To Positive For A Refund Or Demands Positive As A Condition Of Refund – A Guide
- USB Flash Drives Best Price Bargains Fair Value To Sell Or Buy 8GB 16GB 32GB
- MP Players On Ebay – Current Prices For Cheap Fake 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB 32 GB SOSFakeFlash’s Report
- SOSFakeFlash Consumer Education Week 20090605 – 20090612. The Problem of Counterfeit and Fake Memory Sold On Ebay
To see kensington153’s negative feedback Please Click Here
September 27th, 2009 – we have 1 eBay listings confirmed fake.
The models sold under the eBay seller kensington153 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 items from kensington153, you should test immediately with the software H2testw 1.4 . Do not store any important information until you can confirm you have the advertised capacity (minus formatting overhead).
Should your device not report the true advertised capacity:
- Immediately attempt to move any data you have stored on it 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.
- 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:
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PayPal Transaction Number
- Ebay Item Number
- Date Of PayPal Transaction
- Date Of eBay Item Listing
- Your eBayer Id
- Cite eBay Seller kensington153
- The results from your testing with H2testw 1.4
- 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.
SOSFakeFlash 
The_Flash said
I keep seeing those Hello Kitty flash-drives popping up in the “also sold” portion in warnings here lately. I can’t help but suspect that they may not be officially licensed (I’ve also seen them on sites where some other items sold don’t appear to be officially-licensed either). The only Hello Kitty flash-drive listed on Sanrio’s website ( http://www.sanrio.com/ ) is nothing like these.
I’m just curious: Have any of those in particular been confirmed fake? If so, are Sanrio aware that fake flash media featuring their characters is being peddled? I can only imagine that they, like the well-known storage brands such as Kingston and so on, wouldn’t be happy about it…
TechChips said
Yes, Kitty does come up a lot. In the database, Kitty is not always listed as a Kitty.
We don’t have the time at the moment to search every image on file to see if it is a kitty usb flash drive. Unfortunately counterfeiting brand names in China is “Normal”. Often they dare to describe the items as “OEM” for a brand name, that is how they fool people who import. People actually accept and believe this!
Anyway here are some Kitty’s with very sharp claws in the database:
hubaobao9898 16GB USB PEN DRIVE Red Hello Kitty Xmas Gift PenDrive
hubaobao9898 16GB USB PEN DRIVE Pink Hello Kitty Xmas Gift PenDrive
misumoshi 16GB USB Flash Memory flash Pen Drive hello kitty(new)
misumoshi Hello kitty 2GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory stick Pen Drive 2G
wujianglong_2007 16GB 16 GB USB 2.0 PEN DRIVE HELLO KITTY XMAS GIFT K4
wujianglong_2007 16GB 16 GB USB 2.0 PEN DRIVE HELLO KITTY XMAS GIFT K2
wujianglong_2007 16GB 16 GB USB 2.0 PEN DRIVE HELLO KITTY XMAS GIFT K3
wujianglong_2007 16GB 16 GB USB 2.0 PEN DRIVE HELLO KITTY XMAS GIFT K1
wujianglong_2007 16GB 16 GB USB PEN DRIVE HELLO KITTY XMAS GIFT FREESHIP
wujianglong_2007 16GB USB FLASH MEMORY PEN DRIVE HELLO KITTY GIFT K6
wujianglong_2007 16GB USB FLASH MEMORY PEN DRIVE HELLO KITTY GIFT K7
wujianglong_2007 16GB USB FLASH MEMORY PEN DRIVE HELLO KITTY GIFT K5
wangs-online-shop 32GB Hello Kitty 2.0 USB Drive Flash Memory Stick New
toomanyles572 32GB Hello Kitty 2.0 USB Drive Flash Memory Stick New
toomanyles572 “Hello Kitty 32GB USB 2.0 Speicherstick Neu
Hello Kitty 32GO Clé USB 2.0 Pen Drive Neuf”
kensington153 32GB Hello Kitty 2.0 USB Drive Flash Memory Stick New
kensington153 Hello Kitty 32GB USB Flash Drive Stick Memory New
powerseller2008168 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory Drive 8G Thumb Pen Stick kitty
mandarintech2 New Cute Hello Kitty USB Flash Drive, 4GB!
mandarintech2 New Cute Hello Kitty USB Flash Drive,8GB! 1 Yr Warranty
mandarintech2 Hello Kitty 12 Censtellation,The Cancer Flash Disk,8GB
mandarintech2 New Hello Kitty Slipper Flash Drive,8GB!1 Yr. Warrarnty
alice_daphne_a_123 Hello Kitty 32GO Clé USB Pen Drive Memory Stick Neuf
alice_daphne_a_123 Hello Kitty 32GO Clé USB 2.0 Pen Drive Neuf
Kitty can be in many different advertised capacities. It is amazing how many people buy them on eBay.
The_Flash said
That satisfies my curiousity nicely – thankyou very much. 🙂
Would you guys mind if I shot an e-mail off to Sanrio regarding this, and pointed them here? (Would it actually be of any help? I’ve been looking for more to do, regarding raising awareness of fake flash – I don’t have an eBay account, I mostly tend to warn people on websites I attend.)
InspectorTech said
Hi The_Flash,
Please do send an email off to Sanrio. The Knock Off kitties, are not positive to their brand name’s image. There is a lot of kitty merchandise being sold on eBay. The flash drive kitties are almost all false capacity too – lethal. Not one has clocked in at over 2GB so far.
We appreciate your help, very much.
Raising awareness at websites and forums about the problem is important.
Everyone
We also need people to write short articles at other websites about the issue in other languages besides English and let people know that our sites exist with lots of current information. In the past few months some information has been written in: Thai, Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew and Portuguese at some websites.
People can send others here with a url translation in google to the sites or to the articles we have written (though machine translation is a little odd).
The problem is not only on eBay, it is everywhere.
Once again The_Flash, we thank you for helping to raise awareness. This is one of the MOST IMPORTANT ways to help.
The_Flash said
Hi InspectorTech!
I’ve just sent an e-mail to Sanrio now – I’ll let you know what they say if/when they get back to me.
Also; I’m glad to be of help with raising awareness. I’ve never fallen into the fake-flash-pit, as you guys sometimes call it, thanks to folks who published internet warnings in years gone by – it’s only right to return the favour and warn others. Many thanks for providing an excellent resource so that I can do just that.