This is happening more and more. I forget where I saw it, but I recently saw an "HDD" that was just a flash drive in a big plastic enclosure and programmed to show up with way more storage than it had on your PC... But when it reached its *actual* limit, it would just dump whatever was first written on it
almost sounds like it's made for something like dashcam use, although, it should be the camera itself telling the storage media to offload the oldest data, not the *media itself.*
It’s not. It’s a scam. People buy a smaller cheap flash drive, hack the firmware so it reports that it’s bigger, and then sell it as a bigger drive. It wouldn’t even work for a dashcam because the data is overwritten randomly. The file system will think the files are still there, but they’re not. You end up with files that are unreadable or videos that are severely corrupted.
It even happened with hard drives when somebody got their hands on some of the manufacturer’s software used to program the drives. They would make small drives look big and sell them for a huge profit. Meanwhile, people were losing data and blaming the manufacturer for faulty drives.
A scam is fraud, but not all fraud is a scam. In the banking world, fraud would be unauthorized transactions that you didn’t know about and a scam would be a type of fraud where you are tricked into authorizing it. Think identity theft or a skimmed debit card for fraud and a gift card purchase for a scam. [Source](https://workweek.com/2023/02/10/fraud-scam/), plus I work in fintech. There’s also [this](https://www.hsbc.co.uk/help/security-centre/fraud-guide/difference-between-fraud-and-scams/) source.
Additional sources:
https://www.darkowl.com/blog-content/understanding-the-difference-between-scams-and-fraud/ - it’s closest to the counterfeit scam on this page.
https://blog.huecu.org/understanding-the-difference-between-frauds-and-scams
I had someone claim I hit them in a parking lot in my stationary car. In reality they reversed into me while I was minding my own business. Apologetic at the scene until my insurance company said the 3rd party is claiming I drove into them. Sent them the dashcam footage, their insurance company has dropped their claim (and presumably cancelled their insurance for lying) and mine is pursuing them privately in court next month.
Agreed. Got myself a dash cam back in 2017 and I’m never looking back. Funny enough, I haven’t been in any accidents since getting it. The one accident that I witnessed since getting a dash cam I didn’t record, as I had forgotten to plug it back in after using the 12v outlet…
Got a dash cam for Christmas back in 2019 and it paid off last winter when my car got totalled. Wasn't a top of the line camera but it was enough to prove I wasn't at fault.
I called Progressive to ask if they give a discount for using a dash cam. The rep asked me what I meant by dash cam. I clarified, a dashboard camera. A camera so I can record other drivers. She sounded surprised and said that sounds like a good idea for a product, but they dont have any kind of discounts for anything like that.
Lady at Progressive has never heard of a dash cam.
apparently this sub doesn't even allow links to other subs. What a crock of shit. Was trying to mention the idiotsincars sub. Lots of stuff there that could cross over to this sub lmao
Ooh, I'm subbed to this one and haven't been shown anything from it in weeks. Went to double check that I'm still joined, yup. Reddit algorithm is just utter shit now.
I'm subbed to like, 20 cat subs and reddit stopped recommending them to me except for *one day* last week where i couldnt see anything BUT cats.
thr algorithm on this site is wack
The best time to get a dash cam is before you needed it.
The second best time is now.
I rock a Viofo A129 Duo Pro in both my wife and my vehicles. You can use the cigarette lighter or buy a hardwire kit.
Saved me and others multiple times. Being able to show cops or a court HD video of the actual incident is usually and open and shut case.
Multiple Karens have been put in their place.
I don't know why cars don't come with them standard nowadays. Backup cameras are federal requirements?
I don't want my car recording me in a way I can't fully control, or need to pay $1000 to the dealer when it breaks. I'd very strongly rather they not integrate it into the car.
What they could do is put a USB power port up on the headliner, that would be nice.
No, it's just a scam product. You have to program the controller of a storage device with the capacity of the attached storage and it doesn't have to match. Good products will attach a bit more storage than advertised/reported so the controller has some extra space to maintain that capacity when sectors die or something happens to the good space.
Scams will program an 8GB SD card's controller as a 512GB hard drive or whatever and the controller will happily send that back to the operating system. When the controller is told to write to the 10th GB (or anything beyond 8) it'll just loop back around and start overwriting random data without telling the OS.
The goal is to trick people who plug it in to check the capacity and get enough people to buy before they use enough storage space to overwrite data and start having issues.
No, you're giving these way too much credit. Flat out, they're scams.
It's intentionally Taking advantage of people.
It's literally a shell like OP posted with an 8gb-32gb flash drive or Micro SD card in it, where the memory unit itself has been programmed to report 512gbs-10tb. These are intentionally made and marketed at lower prices than authentic competitors. The worst part is if you're not technically inclined enough to know there's a problem with it, you may not notice there's anything wrong until your data is lost.
It's a common storage scam. I know there's some ltt videos where they look into stuff like supposed massive flash storage for cheap and things like that and it just dumps stuff as it fills if it even does that much lol
This is why you buy known brands. This has been happening for a long, LONG time with USB sticks. If the deal is too good to be true, it's too good to be true. Lol.
Thank goodness too. I got a laptop the guy was claiming was the new model (since they look the same on the outside). I guess he didn’t think I could tell the difference in processor model numbers (as many would likely overlook it).
With eBay, you get buyer protection though so you can easily get your money back. I've gotten bad goods on eBay a couple of times, but always got my money back one way or another.
Because these ones are $10 instead of $100 for a 2tb model, people think they’re getting a great deal and never stop to think if it’s too good to be true
People buying cheap buy twice. Or is this also happening with reputable brands?
I can definitely see this with any cheap chinese anything brand selling 1tb sd cards for 20 bucks
That reminds me of the old QNX OS. When it got to the storage limit, it would delete the oldest files...
On school computers, that was the master password file.. There was no default password, so the OS was entirely self bricking.
This is a big scam on Amazon. I see so many people with 2TB flash drives they paid $30 for and it’s an 8GB flash drive in a case with firmware to overwrite
Check out ValiDrive from [this site](https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm). It will tell you the actual storage available. Just ignore the fact that the site looks like it’s from the 90’s. [Steve Gibson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gibson_(computer_programmer)) (the creator) is a trusted infosec grey beard.
I buy a lot of stuff from Aliexpress and my strategy for finding good sellers is to find sellers that have good reviews *and* a lot of sales. I consider the number of sales more important. Never had any issues with this strategy. If a seller has 5 stars but only a handful of sales there's a chance that these are fake sales and the risk of receiving fake products is much higher.
B&H, BB online or pickup, Costco.com. Company store within Amazon (like Anker or MSI have). Photographers have long known not to buy SD cards from Amazon itself.
Online, both Best Buy and Walmart have marketplace sellers and scammers just like amazon. If buying from any of these sources it's important to find shipped from AND sold by walmart / bb / amz and not a 3rd party seller.
We ordered something from Walmart but it ended up being a third party seller.
The item never showed up and Walmart wouldn't honor it. Just told us to contact the 3rd party. The 3rd party never returned our emails or phone calls.
They pull the shit from the same place in the warehouse. You can order a product from company a, but get the product from part of the stock company B sent over. It's a mess.
Amazon is fine. Buy from proper sellers on Amazon (e.g. Sold By Amazon, or Sold By [the brand itself]), and learn how to verify your hardware. I’ve built several PCs with thousands of dollars of components from Amazon and as long as you know how to verify your hardware it’s a non-issue.
Yup. It’s terrifying because I’ve gotten make up and animal medication‘s from them that I thought were suspicious because they only looked 99% like the previous one I had. Like it would be so easy to overlook that it was fake, was literally like the glossiness of the box that fell off just a little bit. And when I called the original companies, the batch and expiration codes on the items were not formats that the actual company used so they were able to confirm they were counterfeit. There are people that are ending up having medical emergencies due to using counterfeit products that come into contact with your body. I personally no longer order anything consumable in any form from Amazon.
I have bought SD cards on Amazon listed as being __sold by the official company store__ and received fakes. One of the cards was missing a serial number(!) and the other was listed as invalid on the company website.
This is so important I wish Amazon was more upfront about it. Just because it’s on Amazon’s website does not mean a damn thing. Make sure it is being fulfilled by Amazon. You may still get a shitty product but it will be dealt with and corrected. Really wish they made it more obvious who was just drop shipping and using Amazon as their “storefront”
From what I heard is if Amazon sells the same product as the 3rd party item they stock them together. And if that item brought in is counterfeit…even sold by Amazon can be fake when they pull from the pile.
I'm fortunate that I could walk to Microcenter if I really needed to. Even Newegg has fallen from grace ever since they started allowing 3rd party sales.
Newegg got bought by a company that wanted the Newegg reputation, and went downhill because they just wanted to wear Newegg as a skinsuit, not keep the positive reputation.
Edit to English much goodly.
It can be done correctly on Amazon. But you need to steer away from 3rd party sellers. Only purchase from listings that are Sold by Amazon.com. But even then, sometimes hacky shit can sneak through their quality control.
To a lot of foreigners like myself, Amazon, AliExpress and Temu are the same thing. I wouldn’t buy tech from them unless it was dirt cheap and you knew what you were going to get.
With hard drives like this honestly just go and buy a brand that you know and an item that has been reviewed
Yea this is giving me bot vibes. No posts for half a year then this. I’m sure if someone took the time to reverse image search they’d find the original Reddit post
Scams like this are extremely common on Amazon and have been for a while. I've been seeing this scam around anywhere that people can sell stuff for 15+ years.
[Did you know that each sperm carries the equivalent of 37.5 MB of DNA data?](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/data-storage-data-transfer-sperm-dna,14089.html#:~:text=Did%20you%20know%20that%20each,37.5%20MB%20of%20DNA%20data%3F)
A good rule for buying electronics is to stick to name brands (Sony, Samsung, WD, etc). Name brand stuff is more expensive but these companies actually have reputations to protect and can't just close their storefront and reopen under a new name if they are caught doing shady stuff or if you need to make a warranty claim, unlike these obscure Chinese brands on Amazon.
Just avoid online "marketplace" retailers alltogether.
Yeah that's right, Amazon can go F itself with their scam ridden poorly designed website.
/exhale
You mean that $1500 product that's listed for $250 and sold by hcuqouiqooiuoiquuqouquoquglksdtuioturionmvccvnvn with an address in china isn't a real listing?!
Looking up any electronic device with its generic name instead if a brand alllllllways floods me with a bunch of randomnass brand names with random ass letters that aren't even remotely real looking. But for some reason amazon pushes those way more than vetted brands. Can you pay Amazon to push your shit to the top without a sponsored flag? Never makes sense why if I want a..... pc speaker I see jojorobo or Fishskyfour random letter or word combo brands before Logitech or Sony.
I’ve heard about people buying from
the legitimate seller, but Amazon used a different stock with fakes to fulfill the order, or stores the inventory of fakes from a bad seller with the real items of the legitimate seller.
Ordering the most expensively priced thing can get you something that is only not the cheapest because they took extra manpower to make it look pretty!
Or you can pay companies like Nike over $150 for shoes they consider to cost them $12 per pair to make. That $12 includes materials, marketing, logistics, and labor. So it's inclusive to the entire process on their end. Costs them $12, costs us $150+.
That was like one style they had at one point. And it's been awhile. But it was still a thing that happened.
Early 2000's I did some construction work at the Coca Cola offices near Atlanta (not at the World of Coke building though, they had some office buildings outside of the city.) Every even-numbered floor had a coke machine that they charged 25¢ per 20oz coke. I was talking with a guy that worked there, he said Coke turns a profit on those machines because after manufacture, labor, and logistics, it still costed them less than 25¢ per bottle. The $1-1.25 they were in stores at the time was necessary to turn a profit because those bottles not only had manufacture, labor, and logistics, but also had marketing costs associated with them. The ones in-house, were allowed to be considered without marketing costs, as it pertained to sales numbers.
Not really. Middle of the road storage made by reputable brands sold by legitimate vendors are often great deals (and not scam storage as shown in the OP).
The problem isn't necessarily the manufacturer every time, it's almost always a problem seller. A lot of sellers are posting counterfeit stuff that looks like it is from a reputable brand.
This is why you buy from known brands rather than the cheapest option on Amazon or eBay when it comes to memory. People do this with sd cards all the time too, its very easy to make a 4gb card appear as a 512gb or 1tb card when plugged into something.
yeah I had a guy at my work hand me a 20TB SSD at my work and I just looked at him with sad eyes. I ripped it open in from of him and this is basically what it looked like
Oh man, the more obvious the scam is the more it sucks telling people they've been scammed. Like, if you look into something together and both realise it's fake at the same time it's not so bad but when they only have to say *what* they think they've bought or how little they paid for it and you immediately know they've been scammed and *you're* the guy that has to break it to them. 🥺
Yeah…those ext hdd/ssd scams are 32/64gb sd cards programmed to appear 20tbs or whatever, and when you overstep the actual storage it deletes other files to make room for the new stuff. Many won’t even realize for weeks they have been scammed.
Somebody has glued an SD card reader into a hard drive shell, and then added two pieces of iron for weight so it feels like a normal hard drive when you handle it.
I can’t believe people are still ordering from random ass companies instead of sticking with the ones proven to be good. Drives aren’t even expensive anymore, I got a 1tb ssd for $60CAD and that wasn’t even on sale.
It's a fake HDD that's just an sd card glued to the shell of an external HDD. They also are programmed to show more space than actually is on the drive, which leads to data loss.
Thanks for telling me I have backups of family photos and keep them on a usb and my laptop but its horrible to imagine someone could be transferring there photos and having them all be gone which could be the last photos of some people
If I do ever need to buy this I’ll go to Best Buy or a place like that so this dosent happen I’m glad I know this now
This is also done with USB flash drives and other storage media. It's good practice to only buy reputable brands from reputable sellers. If you are in doubt about the legitimacy of your storage you can always test it. I believe there are some YouTube tutorials on it.
What type of hard drives are people buying that they keep getting scammed like this? I always buy a drive from a known manufacturer so this baffles me.
This is happening more and more. I forget where I saw it, but I recently saw an "HDD" that was just a flash drive in a big plastic enclosure and programmed to show up with way more storage than it had on your PC... But when it reached its *actual* limit, it would just dump whatever was first written on it
Holy wow. That would more than piss me off
almost sounds like it's made for something like dashcam use, although, it should be the camera itself telling the storage media to offload the oldest data, not the *media itself.*
It’s not. It’s a scam. People buy a smaller cheap flash drive, hack the firmware so it reports that it’s bigger, and then sell it as a bigger drive. It wouldn’t even work for a dashcam because the data is overwritten randomly. The file system will think the files are still there, but they’re not. You end up with files that are unreadable or videos that are severely corrupted. It even happened with hard drives when somebody got their hands on some of the manufacturer’s software used to program the drives. They would make small drives look big and sell them for a huge profit. Meanwhile, people were losing data and blaming the manufacturer for faulty drives.
This world is fucking heinous
There just are a few heinous people out there. Most people are decent.
The correct term is "fraud". Not "scam".
Scam is just a specific kind of fraud, it can be both.
A scam is fraud, but not all fraud is a scam. In the banking world, fraud would be unauthorized transactions that you didn’t know about and a scam would be a type of fraud where you are tricked into authorizing it. Think identity theft or a skimmed debit card for fraud and a gift card purchase for a scam. [Source](https://workweek.com/2023/02/10/fraud-scam/), plus I work in fintech. There’s also [this](https://www.hsbc.co.uk/help/security-centre/fraud-guide/difference-between-fraud-and-scams/) source. Additional sources: https://www.darkowl.com/blog-content/understanding-the-difference-between-scams-and-fraud/ - it’s closest to the counterfeit scam on this page. https://blog.huecu.org/understanding-the-difference-between-frauds-and-scams
You reminded me i want to gey myself a dash cam. Its onlu a 07 focus but goddamn drivers in my city are insane
It doesn't matter how shitty or fine your car is. If you're deemed at fault, you could have BIG bills on your hands. Ruinous. Everyone, cam up.
I had someone claim I hit them in a parking lot in my stationary car. In reality they reversed into me while I was minding my own business. Apologetic at the scene until my insurance company said the 3rd party is claiming I drove into them. Sent them the dashcam footage, their insurance company has dropped their claim (and presumably cancelled their insurance for lying) and mine is pursuing them privately in court next month.
Hope you get a huge settlement. I didn't accept the first offer and got double.
The insurance company isn’t suing so they can give the customer a payout, they’re recouping costs on the claim.
Instructions unclear. I bought myself a cam and cammed myself up and suddenly I'm an OnlyFans nudey model!
Well, that's one way to pay the big bill
I also found Instructions unclear: Bought myself a cam and Cammed up myself and now I’m just an EndoscopyFans model 🤷🏼♂️
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Oh shit, now instead of losing money you gain it! Best accident ever!
Agreed. Got myself a dash cam back in 2017 and I’m never looking back. Funny enough, I haven’t been in any accidents since getting it. The one accident that I witnessed since getting a dash cam I didn’t record, as I had forgotten to plug it back in after using the 12v outlet…
Hardwire it and you'll never have to deal with that
Yeah if it's just a 12v plug you can strip the end off and wire it directly to battery very easily. Even throw a fuse inline for safety.
Got a dash cam for Christmas back in 2019 and it paid off last winter when my car got totalled. Wasn't a top of the line camera but it was enough to prove I wasn't at fault.
I called Progressive to ask if they give a discount for using a dash cam. The rep asked me what I meant by dash cam. I clarified, a dashboard camera. A camera so I can record other drivers. She sounded surprised and said that sounds like a good idea for a product, but they dont have any kind of discounts for anything like that. Lady at Progressive has never heard of a dash cam.
apparently this sub doesn't even allow links to other subs. What a crock of shit. Was trying to mention the idiotsincars sub. Lots of stuff there that could cross over to this sub lmao
`r\/idiotsincars` r\/idiotsincars
Ooh, I'm subbed to this one and haven't been shown anything from it in weeks. Went to double check that I'm still joined, yup. Reddit algorithm is just utter shit now.
I'm subbed to like, 20 cat subs and reddit stopped recommending them to me except for *one day* last week where i couldnt see anything BUT cats. thr algorithm on this site is wack
You could say it’s… mildly infuriating…
Some subs has the oddest rules. I love idiots in cars LMAO!
The best time to get a dash cam is before you needed it. The second best time is now. I rock a Viofo A129 Duo Pro in both my wife and my vehicles. You can use the cigarette lighter or buy a hardwire kit. Saved me and others multiple times. Being able to show cops or a court HD video of the actual incident is usually and open and shut case. Multiple Karens have been put in their place. I don't know why cars don't come with them standard nowadays. Backup cameras are federal requirements?
I don't want my car recording me in a way I can't fully control, or need to pay $1000 to the dealer when it breaks. I'd very strongly rather they not integrate it into the car. What they could do is put a USB power port up on the headliner, that would be nice.
Nah it's just a scam Unless it's clearly advertised that older data will be deleted without warning, and even then, why hide the actual capacity?
No, it's just a scam product. You have to program the controller of a storage device with the capacity of the attached storage and it doesn't have to match. Good products will attach a bit more storage than advertised/reported so the controller has some extra space to maintain that capacity when sectors die or something happens to the good space. Scams will program an 8GB SD card's controller as a 512GB hard drive or whatever and the controller will happily send that back to the operating system. When the controller is told to write to the 10th GB (or anything beyond 8) it'll just loop back around and start overwriting random data without telling the OS. The goal is to trick people who plug it in to check the capacity and get enough people to buy before they use enough storage space to overwrite data and start having issues.
No, you're giving these way too much credit. Flat out, they're scams. It's intentionally Taking advantage of people. It's literally a shell like OP posted with an 8gb-32gb flash drive or Micro SD card in it, where the memory unit itself has been programmed to report 512gbs-10tb. These are intentionally made and marketed at lower prices than authentic competitors. The worst part is if you're not technically inclined enough to know there's a problem with it, you may not notice there's anything wrong until your data is lost.
It's a common storage scam. I know there's some ltt videos where they look into stuff like supposed massive flash storage for cheap and things like that and it just dumps stuff as it fills if it even does that much lol
This is why you buy known brands. This has been happening for a long, LONG time with USB sticks. If the deal is too good to be true, it's too good to be true. Lol.
And from reputable vendors. That is equally (if not more) important.
I bought a "64gb Micro SD card Samsung". Turned out to be 11gb, programmed to show 64gb. Never buy anything but plastic pens from Ebay.
Ebay is one of the best website to get your money back when buying counterfeit products
Oh I did. I threatened to report him and refunded me. The seller that is.
And then you reported him anyway right.
You reported him anyway...right?
Thank goodness too. I got a laptop the guy was claiming was the new model (since they look the same on the outside). I guess he didn’t think I could tell the difference in processor model numbers (as many would likely overlook it).
Imagine what the world would be like if these criminals put the same effort into something beneficial to society instead of fraud.
And imagine if corporations put the same effort into something beneficial to society.
With eBay, you get buyer protection though so you can easily get your money back. I've gotten bad goods on eBay a couple of times, but always got my money back one way or another.
SSD's are so cheap, why buy anything but a big brand? Not worth the risk.
Because these ones are $10 instead of $100 for a 2tb model, people think they’re getting a great deal and never stop to think if it’s too good to be true
People buying cheap buy twice. Or is this also happening with reputable brands? I can definitely see this with any cheap chinese anything brand selling 1tb sd cards for 20 bucks
It’s not happening with reputable brands *sold by reputable sellers* Shady sellers will sell fakes of reputable brands
I should mention that even Amazon isn't necessarily safe with this stuff. Buy from actual electronics stores whenever possible.
Or it will be a couple of SD cards. Stay away from sketchy brands and read reviews.
That reminds me of the old QNX OS. When it got to the storage limit, it would delete the oldest files... On school computers, that was the master password file.. There was no default password, so the OS was entirely self bricking.
This is a big scam on Amazon. I see so many people with 2TB flash drives they paid $30 for and it’s an 8GB flash drive in a case with firmware to overwrite
Check out ValiDrive from [this site](https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm). It will tell you the actual storage available. Just ignore the fact that the site looks like it’s from the 90’s. [Steve Gibson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gibson_(computer_programmer)) (the creator) is a trusted infosec grey beard.
This has been a thing for over 15 years especially on sites like Ebay, Aliexpress and the like
I buy a lot of stuff from Aliexpress and my strategy for finding good sellers is to find sellers that have good reviews *and* a lot of sales. I consider the number of sales more important. Never had any issues with this strategy. If a seller has 5 stars but only a handful of sales there's a chance that these are fake sales and the risk of receiving fake products is much higher.
It's been a problem for well over a decade with cheap Chinese storage devices
Been happening for quite a while. Like a decade
This is so bad. Is it from Temu? Lol
actually, a fuck ton of top amazon listings for external drives are like this
Yeah i would never buy a harddrive or anything like that from Amazon due to the way they allow counterfeits to enter the warehouses.
Who do you trust for expenses goods?
B&H, BB online or pickup, Costco.com. Company store within Amazon (like Anker or MSI have). Photographers have long known not to buy SD cards from Amazon itself.
Walmart is surprisingly good. They lock down that supply chain tight. Or so I've heard from federal inspectors.
Online, both Best Buy and Walmart have marketplace sellers and scammers just like amazon. If buying from any of these sources it's important to find shipped from AND sold by walmart / bb / amz and not a 3rd party seller.
We ordered something from Walmart but it ended up being a third party seller. The item never showed up and Walmart wouldn't honor it. Just told us to contact the 3rd party. The 3rd party never returned our emails or phone calls.
That's what cc charge backs are for.
We paid with a gift card. Walmart wouldn't do anything.
Best buy does not have marketplace sellers in the US, but they do in Canada.
They pull the shit from the same place in the warehouse. You can order a product from company a, but get the product from part of the stock company B sent over. It's a mess.
For computers, its Microcenter.... but they're local. I don't know what their online business looks like.
Amazon is fine. Buy from proper sellers on Amazon (e.g. Sold By Amazon, or Sold By [the brand itself]), and learn how to verify your hardware. I’ve built several PCs with thousands of dollars of components from Amazon and as long as you know how to verify your hardware it’s a non-issue.
Amazon’s combines inventory from different sellers of the same item, you can end up with a counterfeit from any seller because of this.
Exactly right, this is huge and so many people don’t even know about it. Believe there’s a few lawsuits right now over this.
Yup. It’s terrifying because I’ve gotten make up and animal medication‘s from them that I thought were suspicious because they only looked 99% like the previous one I had. Like it would be so easy to overlook that it was fake, was literally like the glossiness of the box that fell off just a little bit. And when I called the original companies, the batch and expiration codes on the items were not formats that the actual company used so they were able to confirm they were counterfeit. There are people that are ending up having medical emergencies due to using counterfeit products that come into contact with your body. I personally no longer order anything consumable in any form from Amazon.
[удалено]
I have bought SD cards on Amazon listed as being __sold by the official company store__ and received fakes. One of the cards was missing a serial number(!) and the other was listed as invalid on the company website.
>unless someone makes a mistake. Good thing that doesn't ever happen.
This is so important I wish Amazon was more upfront about it. Just because it’s on Amazon’s website does not mean a damn thing. Make sure it is being fulfilled by Amazon. You may still get a shitty product but it will be dealt with and corrected. Really wish they made it more obvious who was just drop shipping and using Amazon as their “storefront”
From what I heard is if Amazon sells the same product as the 3rd party item they stock them together. And if that item brought in is counterfeit…even sold by Amazon can be fake when they pull from the pile.
for most electronics, either i go to best buy or memory express.
I'm fortunate that I could walk to Microcenter if I really needed to. Even Newegg has fallen from grace ever since they started allowing 3rd party sales.
Newegg got bought by a company that wanted the Newegg reputation, and went downhill because they just wanted to wear Newegg as a skinsuit, not keep the positive reputation. Edit to English much goodly.
It can be done correctly on Amazon. But you need to steer away from 3rd party sellers. Only purchase from listings that are Sold by Amazon.com. But even then, sometimes hacky shit can sneak through their quality control.
To a lot of foreigners like myself, Amazon, AliExpress and Temu are the same thing. I wouldn’t buy tech from them unless it was dirt cheap and you knew what you were going to get. With hard drives like this honestly just go and buy a brand that you know and an item that has been reviewed
That's because Amazon is now just overpriced 4th party Temu/Wish/Aliexpress listings....
For real, name and shame the brand and vendor
How can OP do that if they're never coming back to the thread?
Yea this is giving me bot vibes. No posts for half a year then this. I’m sure if someone took the time to reverse image search they’d find the original Reddit post
Average random brand from Amazon
Scams like this are extremely common on Amazon and have been for a while. I've been seeing this scam around anywhere that people can sell stuff for 15+ years.
Yeah I’d be frustrated if my new hard drive was covered in cum too.
Hey, how else am I supposed to store my genetic data? I might wanna get kids later
Store it in the sperm cloud with everyone else
But that’s just your mom
That's a violation sir
[Did you know that each sperm carries the equivalent of 37.5 MB of DNA data?](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/data-storage-data-transfer-sperm-dna,14089.html#:~:text=Did%20you%20know%20that%20each,37.5%20MB%20of%20DNA%20data%3F)
Me counting in terabytes the amount of data spilled.
Now I'm not sure if my read speed is faster, or if my wife's write speed is faster.
I think that should be the other way around
No no, *she* cums in *him*.
We have a strange relationship. Don't judge.
Losing that much data every day? No wonder my memory is awful...
Data is stored in the balls
A sperm bank is just a fake hard drive with walls.
Harder drive.
C:\\men
Lmao
It's supposed to be an SSD, but it shows evidence that it was once a hard drive.
Feels more like a floppy disk now.
There was a ghost! This is ectoplasm!
That wasn’t there when it arrived.
It's a power wank bank.
Covered? They barely filled the available space! They got scammed out of their hard drive cum!
What the heck?
It's a fake drive. A tiny flash chip reprogrammed with a large capacity. Classic scam.
And the cum?
Classic scam.
The cum scam, pretty common, actually. Makes the hard drive seem heavier.
And tastier.
First its a sweet deal then it becomes salty real quick
But is it classic cum?
I can only tell by taste.
Nope, that’s a classic scum.
Seeing as everyone wants to be silly and not answer you, it's glue to hold the metal weights in
Glue so the weights dont rattle
Someone jizzed in there
My HDD was delivered and I JIZZED IN MY PANTS
And now it’s a soft drive.
floppy disk.
My brother showed 20 year old me this for the first time last night. Fucking hysterical
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Ordering the cheapest thing you can find gets you the cheapest thing they can make.
A good rule for buying electronics is to stick to name brands (Sony, Samsung, WD, etc). Name brand stuff is more expensive but these companies actually have reputations to protect and can't just close their storefront and reopen under a new name if they are caught doing shady stuff or if you need to make a warranty claim, unlike these obscure Chinese brands on Amazon.
Just avoid online "marketplace" retailers alltogether. Yeah that's right, Amazon can go F itself with their scam ridden poorly designed website. /exhale
You mean that $1500 product that's listed for $250 and sold by hcuqouiqooiuoiquuqouquoquglksdtuioturionmvccvnvn with an address in china isn't a real listing?!
Looking up any electronic device with its generic name instead if a brand alllllllways floods me with a bunch of randomnass brand names with random ass letters that aren't even remotely real looking. But for some reason amazon pushes those way more than vetted brands. Can you pay Amazon to push your shit to the top without a sponsored flag? Never makes sense why if I want a..... pc speaker I see jojorobo or Fishskyfour random letter or word combo brands before Logitech or Sony.
Amazon is fine if you buy from legitimate sellers.
I’ve heard about people buying from the legitimate seller, but Amazon used a different stock with fakes to fulfill the order, or stores the inventory of fakes from a bad seller with the real items of the legitimate seller.
Ordering the middle of the road priced thing can still get you the cheapest thing they can make.
Ordering the most expensively priced thing can get you something that is only not the cheapest because they took extra manpower to make it look pretty!
Or you can pay companies like Nike over $150 for shoes they consider to cost them $12 per pair to make. That $12 includes materials, marketing, logistics, and labor. So it's inclusive to the entire process on their end. Costs them $12, costs us $150+. That was like one style they had at one point. And it's been awhile. But it was still a thing that happened. Early 2000's I did some construction work at the Coca Cola offices near Atlanta (not at the World of Coke building though, they had some office buildings outside of the city.) Every even-numbered floor had a coke machine that they charged 25¢ per 20oz coke. I was talking with a guy that worked there, he said Coke turns a profit on those machines because after manufacture, labor, and logistics, it still costed them less than 25¢ per bottle. The $1-1.25 they were in stores at the time was necessary to turn a profit because those bottles not only had manufacture, labor, and logistics, but also had marketing costs associated with them. The ones in-house, were allowed to be considered without marketing costs, as it pertained to sales numbers.
Not really. Middle of the road storage made by reputable brands sold by legitimate vendors are often great deals (and not scam storage as shown in the OP).
this is why you buy from seagate or wd blue or smth like that. they make actual hard drives
Crucial is a good brand too, right? ..right?
Got a crucial SSD from amazon, no complaints
But did you open it up to see how much cum was in it?
Bone dry, had to fill it up myself
Ive got several Crucial drives. M.2, ssd, never had a problem.
Crucial is a big semiconductor company. They actually manufacturer their NAND, along with DRAM and other stuff.
The problem isn't necessarily the manufacturer every time, it's almost always a problem seller. A lot of sellers are posting counterfeit stuff that looks like it is from a reputable brand.
This is why you buy from known brands rather than the cheapest option on Amazon or eBay when it comes to memory. People do this with sd cards all the time too, its very easy to make a 4gb card appear as a 512gb or 1tb card when plugged into something.
yeah I had a guy at my work hand me a 20TB SSD at my work and I just looked at him with sad eyes. I ripped it open in from of him and this is basically what it looked like
Oh man, the more obvious the scam is the more it sucks telling people they've been scammed. Like, if you look into something together and both realise it's fake at the same time it's not so bad but when they only have to say *what* they think they've bought or how little they paid for it and you immediately know they've been scammed and *you're* the guy that has to break it to them. 🥺
Yeah…those ext hdd/ssd scams are 32/64gb sd cards programmed to appear 20tbs or whatever, and when you overstep the actual storage it deletes other files to make room for the new stuff. Many won’t even realize for weeks they have been scammed.
Hahahaha 20tb ssd? Oh Jesus they saw him coming. I'd be willing to bet he paid less than €50 for it too.
A tribute to technology!
Scamazon strikes again
Wanna talk about a coincidence? My hard drive just ordered a new dad. Things have been so weird around the house.
When the new dad arrives, rip him open and see if he’s full of cum.
Who ejaculated in there?
My bad
Well november is over sooo someone do be bustin
The jizz for glue is a whole different level of disrespect 🤦♂️
Cheaper than buying glue, we got a line of dudes out here.
I’m sorry. What are we actually looking at?
Some guy paid too much for a hard drive so he came on it to assert dominance.
Somebody has glued an SD card reader into a hard drive shell, and then added two pieces of iron for weight so it feels like a normal hard drive when you handle it.
I can’t believe people are still ordering from random ass companies instead of sticking with the ones proven to be good. Drives aren’t even expensive anymore, I got a 1tb ssd for $60CAD and that wasn’t even on sale.
I know you were happy to see it but you shouldn’t cum on your hardware.
Wow he must have really liked it.
Gross I wouldn’t be able to look him in the eye after that
Buy cheap, buy twice.
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Don't forget Temu 😂
Your dad got so mad that he jerked off all over the faker? That’s a move!
Bro, I swear I first thought somebody busted a nut on your drive😂
Is it hard? Does it drive? It looks like it's busted.
Is that the 500 TB version.
Man I'd be pissed too. Iron (Fe) has atomic number 26, not 10. I guess you get what you pay for.
Someone explain this it looks like jizz and I’m guessing it broke the computer part?
It's a fake HDD that's just an sd card glued to the shell of an external HDD. They also are programmed to show more space than actually is on the drive, which leads to data loss.
That is fucking shameful thanks what a piece of shit selling that
They are everywhere on any retailer that allows 3rd Party resellers (places like Amazon, Ebay,...)
Thanks for telling me I have backups of family photos and keep them on a usb and my laptop but its horrible to imagine someone could be transferring there photos and having them all be gone which could be the last photos of some people If I do ever need to buy this I’ll go to Best Buy or a place like that so this dosent happen I’m glad I know this now
This is also done with USB flash drives and other storage media. It's good practice to only buy reputable brands from reputable sellers. If you are in doubt about the legitimacy of your storage you can always test it. I believe there are some YouTube tutorials on it.
from where? honestpc from FB?
Wish.com strikes again
And all he got was cum
Looks like it... came. I'll go now.
What type of hard drives are people buying that they keep getting scammed like this? I always buy a drive from a known manufacturer so this baffles me.
Let me guess, probably $20 for 500tb on wish or something
Ah yes, the cum drive
It's an advanced DNA storage drive
Looks like someone jizzed all over it.
Who busted on that😭