[PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

John Jason Jordan johnxj at gmx.com
Sat Jul 21 16:22:42 UTC 2018


On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 22:40:33 -0700
wes <plug at the-wes.com> dijo:

>On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:39 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:30:25 -0700
>> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
>>  
>> >And considering that the goods say nothing about the size I can
>> >guess what will happen when eBay gets my complaint. The seller will
>> >insist that they never said the drive was 256GB. Well, we'll see
>> >what happens.  
>>
>> Yep. I just brought up the listing and, sure enough, the seller has
>> modified it after the sale. I don't know if it will show up for
>> y'all, but here is the link:

>Under "Item specifics" it still says "Storage Capacity: 256GB"

And the original listing header saying '256GB' is still in the listing
in My eBay, so eBay knows what it originally said. And this morning I
noticed that in My eBay it says the seller is:

	SUN CHOUN LEE
	NO.1207 Block A, Jalan Desa Bakti 2, Taman Desa, 51800 Kuala
	Lumpur 51800

And the Chino address it was shipped from is:

	Dept CA #42
	13725 Pipeline Ave
	Chino CA 91710-5417

>It also claims to be usb3, of which I'm very skeptical. As for "who
>dun it" ... it occurs to me that this seller could just as easily have
>purchased these believing they were 256gb drives, and only learned
>they were fakes after selling some and getting complaints. Hopefully
>they are cooperative with your return.

Oh, the seller definitely knew they were fakes, else why did the seller
try to fool eBay by changing the listing header information from 256GB
to 32GB after the sale? I want to report this to eBay as a scam, but I
haven't found the button for that yet. The seller is new, less than a
month ago.

Re USB 3, the connector has the blue whatchamacallit. But I did no
tests.

>If you do end up finding a real 256gb drive for a reasonable price,
>please let us know. I wouldn't mind getting one or two myself. I'm
>just not willing to buy a bunch of them to find out which ones are
>real.

Maybe we can find a quantity deal somewhere. I'll keep my eyes open
as I re-shop. So far the best deals I've found at real stores (Newegg,
etc.) are around $65-70. On eBay I find ones with pics of name brands
(PNY, SanDisk, etc.) for around $45-50.



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