eric_rick Ebay Fake Flash Memory Seller High Alert – China
Posted by KittyFireFlash on November 4, 2009
eric_rick is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake – false capacity memory) Flash USB drives and memory cards. Registered in China, eric_rick sold many DataTraveler 200 USB Flash Drive counterfeit usb flash drives using multiple item listings. This seller is also skilled at getting victims to revise their feedback in exchange for a refund.
Buyers of 32GB and 64GB advertised capacity, please read these two articles immediately!
- How Can You Spot Fake Flash Memory Chips? What Is the Key Factor That Determines If MP3 MP4 Players, USB Flash Drives Or Memory Cards Are Fake Capacity? Don’t forget to answer the questions – we need your data!
- Warning! eBay 32GB 64GB Fake Flash Memory Outbreak – USB Pen Drives.
Questions? Please read this report: Fake Flash Memory On Ebay Escalates. SOSFakeFlash Status Report 20091031. Fake Memory Cards, MP3 MP4 Players, USB Flash Drive PenSticks. How To Fight Against Fraud.
Note: A 16GB DataTraveler 200 USB Flash Drive does not exist at Kingston website!
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- October 2009 – SOSFakeFlash Battle Plan
- October 2009 – Ebay Fake Flash Seller Hot List
- Please read this Survival Kit to help you with your eBay seller!
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November 2nd, 2009 – we have 5 eBay listings confirmed fake.
The models sold under the eBay seller eric_rick 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 eric_rick, 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 eric_rick
- 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 
Carl Hennig said
alldays189 ( 110) an Ebay seller has sold 429 64G 64GB Data Traveler 200 DT200 USB U Flash Drive 64GB and 128GB flash drives. alldays189 no longer has items listed on Ebay.
Unfortunately for me, I discovered this site too late.
Testing my 64GB drive with H2testw revealed
The media is likely to be defective.
1.8 GByte OK (3912960 sectors)
In an email from the seller, he stated it was a 4GB upgrade. ?? I had no idea what that meant, but I bought it anyway.
I did not bother trying to recover the usable memory and considered my $24.00 lost.
An attempt by PayPal to recover the money is fruitless. They want third party proof it is a fake. The shell and circuit board probably are genuine, so how do you prove a fake except by testing.
As a guess, I would say all the USB flash drives sold on Ebay from China are fakes.
FlashChipTutor said
“Upgrade” is a polite term for a fake.
It means the flash memory chip, in your case, 4GB has been upgraded (reprogrammed) to “appear” to be 64GB. This is done with special software that changes information on the chip, to falsely report to operating systems a size it is not – 64GB for your flash drive.
Certain flash drive controller chips have flaws easily manipulated with the right tools. You will notice at the InspectorTech’s site (hospital) there are not a lot of articles. It is because the same usb controller families are involved, repeatedly.
About 99% of usb flash drives sold on eBay are fakes. 1% are real capacity. The majority of honest capacity usb flash drive sellers have stopped selling on eBay. They can not compete. The fake flash eBay sellers are offering and selling below the actual costs of the chip size they advertise.
eBay buyers do not know anything about the costs of flash memory chips and this is taken advantage of.
Generally when buyers test and report the actual size and it is compared against the cost of the actual size, eBay members got what they paid for – size wise. They are only paying a small premium for the opportunity to own a fake – reprogramming does require additional effort in labour.
For more information on flash chip costs visit:
http://flashdrivefacts.wordpress.com/
http://flashchiptech.wordpress.com/
KittyFireFlash said
It appears alldays189 is an honest fake flash seller. He stated it was an “upgrade”. Only most people have no idea what that means. People in the business do. There are two menus’s fabs offer. The real capacity item list, the upgrade capacity list.
Importers need to specify which list they want to buy from. Obviously the upgrade list is about 1/6 the price but then the real capacity is about 1/6 of what is advertised.
We have had several importers, choose the wrong list – because it was much cheaper. They learned what upgraded meant. It almost cost a few their reputation and business.
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