SOSFakeFlash Quick Note 201003
Posted by KittyFireFlash on January 3, 2010
Situation is getting even worse on eBay. Suspended sellers are opening new id’s to continue. Observed are the reappearance of old sellers under new id’s (don’t ask how we can spot them). The fake capacity is escalating from 32 GB to 64GB and 128GB. The prices are ridiculously low. Less then $35 for 64GB or 128GB?
eBay fake memory sellers are adapting to your fighting back.
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Delaying shipping of item to use up 45 day claim window
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Using Buy Now Listings, often more than 100+ sold per listing
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Singapore registered eBay sellers, list massively in buy now, then leave eBay within one to two weeks of selling. They restart under a new id.
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Macau is now another point of origin. Avoid any eBay seller registered there selling flash memory products, especially usb flash drives.
If you are interested in fighting against the fraudulent sellers, are a registered victim, please contact sosfakeflashdrive@gmail.com
In the interim, please patrol for any 32GB, 64GB or 128GB flash drive listings on eBay.
Report any suspect sellers here in comments, they will be picked up by search engines. It will help the vicitms to be find this site.
Click on the bottom of the listings and report them to eBay. Go on record. Capture of your communication and sent it to us. If you document, eBay will have absolutely no excuse, they have been warned. The FrankenFlash Project will publish your warnings on the Internet to document.
If eBay sellers are adapting to us and becoming even more sneaky and diabolical, we must adapt too.
Calling everyone to action: Fake Flash Angels, Fake Flash Commandos.
Expect this week to be busy for alerts, we finally caught up with the backlog!
SOSFakeFlash 
Seth said
ebay sellers:
dgrts
kmtrend
margotbor
printkingdom
ti2609
wefqewerfe11265485
xmei19851224
Expect more fraud on ebsy. More victims will more ebay victims to crawl the internet to sosfakeflash.
Question for all:
Why do people not FIGHT BACK?
People will continue to become victims because they think ebay is the cheap answer. LOL!
You guys do a great job!!! Bet you are tired. Suggest you all take a holiday. Stop fighting. Stop issueing articles.
Do frauded people fight back?
Do they give in to a f*cking fake memory seller? Change feedback? Make more victims?
Suggest you guys takea VACATION! People are greedy. Want everything for nothings. FASLO = Ebay. If you do not earn money fron site why bother to help ebay people. Do they help?
why bother? said
U are wasting ur time sosfakeflash ppl! Governments lie, companies lie, the world is full of lies. If people fall for the lies then that’s there problem.
U will not stop this fraud however hard you try. Just bang ur head on a wall for a few minutes and c how it feels. That iz what you are doing anyway.
KittyFireFlash said
Hi why bother?
Ah, a critical comment and a very very good one if I might say so!
The world is full of lies, there is truth.
Bang my head? On a wall? What head? I smashed it long ago helping to fight this issue. This is not a problem that will be solved overnight – knew that from the beginning. A War has many battles.
Addressing eBay is the first arena. Why? Because it is the biggest conduit to send fake memory items around the world – 72 countries impacted so far. However people need to know that about 1 million flash chips are reprogrammed every month. Visit TechChip’s site and see the video.
Tiny flash memory chips – generally 2GB are used. Many substandard – Grade d. When people complain about receiving a fake and the bid price is matched against the value of the chip, they generally get what they PAIDED for. Ouch! Nobody wants to hear that! As a victim it was a rude awakening for me!
If there is no demand, there will be no supply. It is not only fake flash memory sellers, ebay and paypal who are guilty. We are too. Why? Not understanding about memory chip prices. Thinking eBay was the cheap place to buy. We thought we were cutting out the middle men, so that is why the prices are so low. Wrong, there is little profit for mp players, usb flash drives or memory cards for true capacity – unless you sell in heavy volume. That is why there are few genuine sellers on eBay, nobody is willing to pay the real price. They go out of business fast.
Can we stop the fraud? Yes. Eventually. It begins with AWARENESS! People are under educated in this technology. They don’t know. We didn’t.
We are here to help people who are victims or who luckily found this site in time and therefore avoided buying on eBay!
People talk, they tell others about their experience at lunch. They tell friends and family. Some issue notices at local schools and in city bullitens. It all helps. eBay is paying a serious price for refusing to clean house. Many victims have closed their accounts, others bitter about how they were treated at eBay and PayPal, no longer bid or buy or reduce their purchases. When ever a discussion about eBay comes up, they make sure to put in their two cents worth.
This is a long journey – Why Bother, not a short one. We started in spring 2008 and went public on the internet in autumn 2008. Much good has been done and a lot of people helped. We can make a difference – everyone who warns a few buyers helps. Those who share intel and other things help.
When a report comes in with:
then good has been done, in dark picture you painted of the world (a lot of it true). So we exist and waste our time as you put it, to help others (fellwo members. The more people make the problem known, the more articles in foreign languages about and our site, the more people will learn about fake memory – how dangerous it is to data and our wallets.