A dozen of years ago in China you could find 128GB flash drives while in Europe the max capacity you could find were 4GB... those actually were reprogrammed 256MB flash drives the same way to show a huge capacity... it’s an old trick!
@samantha tang Because they can sell it for a much higher price than the space it actually has. And as mentioned in the video, by the time they realize there is something wrong with the drive it is already too late. Scum of the earth is what they are.
I have named and shamed ebayers and then lawyers threatened me. Seems you have a magic touch I never acquired If I show fake products on UA-cam the videos are now demonetized, sadly the site sux now
As a former eBay employee, while 93 sounds pretty good, anything under 98 or 99 percent positive feedback is a terrible seller. Particularly when looking at counterfeits and scams.
Plus they only had like 10 reviews. If they had like 1000 reviews, then it would be like 50% positive reviews, but I guess they would be kicked off EBay before that happens.
I would also take the time to look at the bad reviews. I just got a great deal on a used smart phone for around $9 (USD). I've been pretty hard pressed to find anything really wrong with it besides being older and having minor superficial scratches, it was being sold as junk because of some camera problem, but I have been able to use the camera for photos and videos. The bad reviews for that seller were along the lines of "whoops I clicked bad review" and "some functions on this phone I bought as "junk" don't work", or the seller not responding fast enough to the buyer (even though it is clearly stated on the item pages because of work there may be delays in communications). Some people are overly picky and/or stupid and leave bad reviews for unjustified reasons.
I think they are connected to a tech support company, and so they have a lot of data to store. They have other videos on needing to upgrade their servers
Another reason they have positive reviews is damage control. I've bought junk off chinese sellers on Ebay before and if you leave a negative review they immediately start hounding you about how it said in the description you're not allowed to leave negative feedback without contacting them first then they start offering you money back and free replacements until eventually they're basically offering money to leave positive feedback ( I let my negative feedback stand)
@@rob6508 He would only get scammed if he thought he was really getting a 1 TB card. He knew it wasn't going to pencil out to 1 TB. This is an educational video.
To @"iwin" you statement is not really correct (assuming u mean there'd be so much packed into such a small space that it would implode upon itself) is not really a valid concern considering the current stated capacity of the "SD" design specs for "sdxc" a maximum capacity of 2 TB for Micro and regular size (but not mini tho I believe, though I could be wrong since I haven't looked in a while, that they only have the sdHC cap on data size and there are not xc in mini which would make sense because virtually zero currently produced products use mini sds- theyre all micro or full size and even not alot of older ones which most arnt even comparable with SDHC) is 2TB. (Good luck finding them on the market yet tho.)
I feel like Linus doesn’t get enough credit for his presenting skills. He’s walking around, looking away from the camera/teleprompter, and still manages to do a really good job delivering information.
Some of these product descriptions are absolutely hilarious, I remember one of them said "new upgraded SD card capacity has been expanded and upgraded from original". When I asked the seller what that meant, they said that they were able to "increase the onboard storage capacity" of these cards. Suspicious...
SanDisk's will read at 170 MB/s, write at 90. It's probably going to be a million dollars. Unfortunately, it seems MicroSD is going the way of the dodo on phones.
THE TROUBLE WITH SOME FEED BACK IS people do it even before thoroughly checking things out , so they give feed back as positive and later on find out the stuff actually is bad , others see all the positive feed back and keep ordering things based on it.
Many scammers offers you, when you report them some problems with any ítem, a full refund if you just don't report any problem to eBay and give them a positive vote. Most people try to avoid waiting time for eBay and PayPal solve a dispute.
I've had some scammer try and persuade me to not put a dispute in and they would sort it. Hell no, the time for them to be honest was when they sent it in the first place, they lost the trust as soon as they tried to scam someone. 😁
I experienced this in person while I was on a ship in Shanghai. Talked to a vendor who was selling electronics and asked for an external hard drive. He handed me a "1TB Toshiba Canvio?" and I tested it like you did. Files transferred and opened no corruption until a week later. I opened the case and there was no HDD, but instead 2 bolts and a small flash drive hot glued on one side of the case... At least they added the bolts for weight lol
@@wds3222 I actually got a couple legitimate Razer items and SanDisk Drive for about 75% of the US market at the time. To be fair the drive worked when I tested it.
@@mattholmes8214 I mean ofc they will have some legit stuff over there LOL There is no such a thing as 100% for anything but dont u think its a pain in the ass that u need to be extra careful on everything u bought over there?
I thought i was so lucky when i found one of these memory cards and decided to copy all of my school works on it and it left sleepless nights for a week!
As an ex ebay employee... The reason they have positive feedback over a year is because they shilled it. Ebay checks for this but over a shorter timeframe. Also, they might have made a few genuine sales. However you can be certain that any feedback received for that item is either fake or someone who bought it, copied a small file on it and then left feedback. To be fair, anyone who bought that probably isn't tech savvy enough to realise it's a scam until too late.
"To be fair, anyone who bought that probably isn't tech savvy enough to realise it's a scam until too late." yeah, that's the bottom line, the people who would leave negative feedback for a product like this are by and large savvy enough not to buy it in the first place. It takes a *lot* of photos or apps or consumer quality video to fill up 32GB.
How about the fact that you must wait 7 days from the time it shows the item as delivered before you can leave Not positive feedback on ebay which by that point most people forget about it
As an ex-ebay employee.. Maybe you could also tell why you wouldn't just keep track of obvious scams? (e.g. Microsd cards that cannot exist?) Machine learning could be taught to recognize a lot of stuff too.
@@HoudiniFontmeister the idea with that is to give the seller time to resolve the difficulties. So if something breaks in shipping for example you contact them and the seller ships a new one. You do get prompted to leave feedback later though.
@@rkan2 they do. They remove millions and millions a year. However it looks for obvious risks rather than combos. So it'll check low feedback sellers with higher worth items. Branded stuff and obviously illegal stuff. Now it's been 4 years since I worked there so they've probably improved it. However there's over a billion items on ebay every month. Some will get through.
Bought a Huwei one with the exact same packaging and 32 gb actual storage! Hoping to get a refund... which could make it a free 32 gb sd card. Fingers crossed.
Here is why people gave positive reviews: 1. Buy this fake product (preferably from Singapore) 2. Realise that it is not a 1TB drive but 32gigs or so 3. Take screenshots and pictures of the product and also ebay's description 4. Raise a dispute against seller on grounds of "item does not match the description", backed by ebay money back guarantee. 5. The seller will likely try to knock off the price but if you keep firmly answering his/her messages demanding a full refund he will eventually yield (1 to 2 weeks). 6. You get your money back in full and you get to keep the product unless seller pays the shipping back (which is absurdly expensive) 7. Reformat the drive (firmware) to match its actual size or use some other means to prevent the drive from overwriting. But even if you do get sub-par drives free this way it's easier just to get extra work and buy a legitimate drive from reliable sources. Even if you fix these drives it is possible that they are old and will not last long anyway.
@2ByQ this is very true, i would still give a crappy review even though they let me keep it. shady business methods, shitty customer service and crap product.
@@TheByQQ you will be amazed 99.9% of stupid people leave feedbacks JUST BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED THE GOODS (in Aliexpress, if you take the time, half of feedbacks are "LOOKS NICE, I STILL DIDN'T TRIED IT".........probably also 99% of people have no idea they are over-writing their own files multiple times.........they probably will think there was a problem with the file itself......because unless you use it to backup movies, how many pictures you need to take with your camera to reach 32GB of data?...probably they realize the scam months after they bought it, and by then, the seller either fly away, or they can't leave any feedback (eBay has 90 days I think, to reverse or edit or leave a feedback)
@@TheByQQ If you leave a negative review, they will often keep bothering you and annoying you until you change it to be positive, sometimes even offering you money just to get you to change it to positive.
In even more words: Buy fake SD card, test for scam, report buyer and invoke Ebay's buyer protection, get your money refunded and a free lower capacity SD card.
There are full time jobs in china that involves giving positive reviews to items on sites like taobao, aliexpress, ebay, etc. This is real, and they send out job offers through text without shame. They send these messages to random emails, and phone numbers in China to get people to sign up. I used to live in China and have received these messages before.
Nope, they r scams intended for people who r willing to earn "easy money". Actuall pro reviewers are non-exist due to algorithms that ban those folks from using taobao.
If you lives in china,you need to face it.There are jobs like leaving fake reviews and making fake transactions.Many online sellers on taobao.com needs that because it will give you a better ranking and if you are ranked,you can get on their front page.
The sale of sale numbers do exists, but there is no pro reviewers. Sellers usually send people big coupons via crowd-sourcing. Then a random ppl buy and no actuall goods is sent or more often sth cheap (e.g: a birck, not the Supreme branded ones) is sent. There is no pro reviewer simply because the reward is really few, just like how much u get when u use GoogleOpinionRewards.And those who connect sellers and reviewers make more money by giving out normal coupons, just like how u2bers do it. Actually it's really a shame that sometimes Chinese can't get real reviews from real customers.
花陽 小泉 What you describe does happen. Although most are for people who are interesting in earning quick bucks, my point is that these sellers really have no shame in committing fraud, and its not good for consumers who are not that versed in online shopping. They are not able to discern between whether something is a good deal or a scam. And I believe that’s something we can both agree on. I just wanted to say that so everyone knows that these kind of things do occur on a regular basis. The key is to caution everyone who is shopping at these sites to be extra careful.
"remember kids, when you get a new memory device, max out its capacity with complete crap to make sure its real before the return window" is my personal takeaway as assuming just from the price you're getting scammed and paying more for one could be a demon in is own right.
You can con the seller out of his money if you buy it from Aliexpress and then test it. Then open a dispute and send the the screenshot of the result. 100% refund
I bought a 256GB SD card from Walmart last year that would corrupt data past 32GB. Wrote a review on the product listing which Walmart removed for "Legally sensitive information"
I'd guess the gap depends a little on the content. Some stuffs comes up faster than others. Scrap Wars for one was a week delay if I recall correctly. And the stream content show up the same time.
Fun fact: if you connect the sdcard to your mobile, the mobile will recognize the correct size. 2nd fun fact: if you format the sdcard the sdcard in the mobile will remain the correct size.
Fun fact my phones read 118gb on my 128 cards and 220 on 256gb cards but when i pop em in my laptop boom it reads same as listed on sd with one exception a china knock off rated for 512gb my phones read as 400 my laptop well it dont match up soo the china is a dud
Just imagine all those people out there putting them into their smartphones and loosing irreplaceable data such as videos and pictures they take. Their greed really hurts people.
*LOSING* Lose or losing refers to something that is lost or will be lost or will have lost. Loose or loosing is referred to as something that is released, is released, or will be released. Example: I let loose of my rope, I was losing my grip. Thusly after losing my grip, I had to let loose of my other rope so I could keep my balance.
0:54 Who do I feel more sorry for... The guy that saw it in person and had to record it or the guy that had to see it in editing for 10x longer than the clip actually is.
I bought a Sandisk branded microSD card through Newegg, came direct from China. I was using it for Raspberry Pi so was using the full capacity. Basically Raspberry Pi wouldn't boot, the card would over right once it filled up, the capacity was maybe half, took me days to figure out what was happening, also I wondered why the paint was coming off and the color was off. Talk to Newegg and they replaced it with a true Sandisk. Sad thing is if someone bought it for a camera and popped it in, they wouldn't know for days, weeks, or months that there was a problem with the card and over writing they're photos.
And this has happened a lot..Mom & Pop bought an SD card for their once in a lifetime holiday to the island, took many pics of their only daughters wedding/grandchilds birth and found out all was over written on a 32gb card which was only 4gb.. ALWAYS run H2TestW before using a card. DEATH to card pirates..
@@kn00tcn Newegg was bought by a company in china. So it is very likely their products can come from china. Nothing is stopping them from lying about their sources either.
He did say in the Video that it's more dependent on the Vendor, not the website. If you're buying from vendors you can trust (Directly from the maker, Amazon themselves, or a famous brand-name vendor) then you can buy from Amazon... or anywhere else for that matter.
I ALWAYS buy stuff like MicroSD cards directly from Amazon. Not from third-party Amazon sellers or from "Fulfilled by Amazon" sellers. Always check the buying options to know who you are buying from. BTW same applies to phones. Lots of refurb phones get re-sealed and sold as "new" by third party Amazon sellers.
I was after the Hakko soldering station and instantly I was surprised with the massive difference between the eBay 60GBP and Amazon cheapest at 120GBP. After some "youtube research" it becomes obvious, that those ones from eBay were just faked. All of them. Ever since, I do buy my memory cards on Amazon
They are on Amazon too. last year I bought 2 "128GB" for 8 bucks each. I knew they were fake i just bought them for fun and re-partitioned them in command prompt. I'm surprised Linus didn't mention this, both his and one of my cards were labeled HC, a standard that's only good for 4-32gb. any more than 32gb needs the XC marking on it.
But why bother repartitioning a fake card? How long will it take it to swap a bit in the controller firmware and die with all your data in it? Also, they're usually small 8GB cards
@@konatadesuka Ya they were 8gb. I was interested to see what I actually get. I don't really use them, maybe to take a picture from a PC to a printer or something unimportant like that. Another thing I found funny was that the picture of the card on amazon was just a Sandisk card that was badly photo shopped. it had a slightly blurry spot where a logo would be, so I put the image into Photoshop and raised the contrast and a couple of pink spots became visible on the totally black card and those spots lined up with sandisk's logo
@@lolindirlink yep, used the clone stamp to get most of the Sandisk logo gone then put in white 128GB, and the card didn't even look the same as in the picture
I actually bought one who was 32 GB for 4 dollars of deal extreme. xD expecting it would be fake and being able to try it. But It was real, the speeds were 60 mb/s to! :) I used it in my smartphone for 2 years, now my girlfriend is using it for storing music lol. So It can happen. :) Just don't buy the larger ones. 32 GB should be the max you buy.
It is not just micro cards that are being used for this scam. I bought a 2Tb SSD from AliExpress. It would not partition properly so I openned it up. It contained a single 256mb NAND.
Make a video about GPUs that pretends to be a 1060 or any other nice graphic card by using a modified BIOS but they actually have another old graphic processor
girlsdrinkfeck no, he hasn’t, I’m speaking about extremely old chipsets like a 380 or a 480 with a modded bios that makes them appear to the PC like a 1060 for example but obviously they do not have the memory that the PC thinks they has by reading their bios so they just cause lots of graphical bugs in games that uses more graphical memory than the gpu really have since the PC tries to write data where storage does not exists; they are a gigantic scam that can easily fool someone who do not knows much about computers. You can easily find them on eBay, Wish and many other websites.
It's not just microSD cards, fake USB thumb drives or those with fancy cartoon rubber claddings that say 8/16/32GB (or maybe bigger) that turn out to be just 4GB or less and are not at all reliable are all over Asia. They're a complete waste of money. Avoid like the plague.
"Chinese pirates, it's like they're not even trying." No, it's just them abiding by the (Chinese!) law which states exactly how close and not close your product may be to an existing one before it counts as a counterfeit. So what you really should be saying is" Chinese lawmakers, this is such an obvious ripoff, why do you let it count as it's own product with such minor differences?"
I think they have so many good reviews because most of the people don't realise the files are overwritten. For many it will take months to fill up 32GB and by that time they already left a positive review.
@@peterpayne2219 what a lot of people don't realise is that Windows is 100% functional *forever* without any need to activate it. You only need to activate it if your conscience says so. But, if you're poor, you can't afford to have a conscience, lol 😛
@Anon 1 Actually those codes are scam, that can be blocked anyday. Second - there are free activators for windows. And third there is legal method to get license for free, which I've found and been using, but won't tell you cause I don't want them to close this "door" ;)
People always forget the golden rule. If it looks too good to be, it probably is. Remember that the next time you're browsing tinder as well. No problem your welcome.
this Scam has been going on for years and its a nightmare,Buy your SD cards Direct from the Amazon or eBay official store and always run a Fake Flash Test
It may well not be the font, but that the pirates are typing in full-width characters rather than "normal" half-width ones, which is common in East Asian language IMEs, and is what gets you your vaporwave text and such. 【１０２４ＧＢ】for example. That or, it may be just that Chinese IME text is defaulting back to SimSun (for Simplified or PMingLiU (for Traditional) fonts or possibly they're still using XP which doesn't handle English characters typed using the East Asian IMEs very well for whatever reason. Or a combination of both. Also, I've seen this scam on USB sticks as well. It's quite easy to do with any flash-based device.
SanDisk has a real 1TB MicroSD card now.
For real? Nah
Don’t be toxic pls
TriEdge Gaming What? He isn’t being toxic
@@o.s.2619 yeah u oldy ass
and whhat about the 1tb huawei on ebay?
A dozen of years ago in China you could find 128GB flash drives while in Europe the max capacity you could find were 4GB... those actually were reprogrammed 256MB flash drives the same way to show a huge capacity... it’s an old trick!
Oh yeah.. I remember buying one of those for laughs when I was in China. It was 10 years ago.
Here's a little session in trickery!
@@desert06 only after you are fucked up
@@brainrotacademy69 do you what an atomic bomb looks like .you don't just drop it and it blows up
@samantha tang Because they can sell it for a much higher price than the space it actually has. And as mentioned in the video, by the time they realize there is something wrong with the drive it is already too late. Scum of the earth is what they are.
0:54 Linus what the hell was that
Idk
He shat himself
Could be to do with the sponsor
Him naked censored
Oof no kids thay are not se ing
8:50 There is also another huge possibility that those feedbacks are from bots paid by the seller or ppl that work at the same place.
You could hire 100 of reviews on anything for less 10 dollars
His hair makes him look like he’s still in 2011.
2011 was a good year for him when he was at NCIX.
IKR
Hair, Earings, Old Fart Sandals with Socks, WTF!!!
Hair won't grove under foil hat...
I literally thought this was an older video... Lol and it's like... from the end of the last year
I have named and shamed ebayers and then lawyers threatened me. Seems you have a magic touch I never acquired
If I show fake products on UA-cam the videos are now demonetized, sadly the site sux now
Lol use Skill Share
@@guillermogutierrez-santana4446 yeah
Aaaa
@Hand Grabbing Fruits or pastebin
Cause you're not big time. That's youtube and every other big website out there, they want the rich ti get richer and that's it.
As a former eBay employee, while 93 sounds pretty good, anything under 98 or 99 percent positive feedback is a terrible seller. Particularly when looking at counterfeits and scams.
Ty for this news
Thank you! That's actually very helpful, now just to figure the bid snipers!
Plus they only had like 10 reviews. If they had like 1000 reviews, then it would be like 50% positive reviews, but I guess they would be kicked off EBay before that happens.
I would be hesitant to buy from someone with 99.0%. If I buy something pricey on ebay, I would want it to be as close to 100% as possible.
I would also take the time to look at the bad reviews. I just got a great deal on a used smart phone for around $9 (USD). I've been pretty hard pressed to find anything really wrong with it besides being older and having minor superficial scratches, it was being sold as junk because of some camera problem, but I have been able to use the camera for photos and videos. The bad reviews for that seller were along the lines of "whoops I clicked bad review" and "some functions on this phone I bought as "junk" don't work", or the seller not responding fast enough to the buyer (even though it is clearly stated on the item pages because of work there may be delays in communications). Some people are overly picky and/or stupid and leave bad reviews for unjustified reasons.
Linus: check this capacity out
Me: holy shit 24TB and its almost out of space
I think they are connected to a tech support company, and so they have a lot of data to store. They have other videos on needing to upgrade their servers
@@gemstonegynoid7475 it's their own servers, not a tech support company's
Hes got 50 copies of crysis
lol my server has 400TB 92% capacity full
@@Fermi_Consistency what the fuck
Another reason they have positive reviews is damage control. I've bought junk off chinese sellers on Ebay before and if you leave a negative review they immediately start hounding you about how it said in the description you're not allowed to leave negative feedback without contacting them first then they start offering you money back and free replacements until eventually they're basically offering money to leave positive feedback ( I let my negative feedback stand)
that's dumb
accept the money but leave the review negative
Ah that's your problem right there, you didn't order it from Wish.
Lmaooo
Instantly thought of your vid lol
I ordered a 128 GB SD card for 2$ off Wish. It says its 128 MB SD Card when I got it.
linus' video didnt have enough hammers in it...
Lmao saw your vid too XD
waiting for limited-edition 2TB sandal drive
a socks & sandals drive?
I prefer my 200 TB eastern-digitalgate drive better.
A mere 1TB for $30+? Huh! Geek have 2 x 2 TB flash drives for £3 + £1 shipping. You’ve been done! 😜
A video with Linus wearing normal shoes is highly collectible!
u mean scandal drive
My dad bought a 4tb hdd for 7 euros.
The hardrive was empty
xD
Physically
Probably a sata enclosure
I got a 4 TB external HDD for less than 200 Canadian dollars. I forget the exact price but it would have been the equivalent of 120 euros or so.
@@EpicB hdds do not have a micro controller but it is still fakeable
ua-cam.com/video/Qe6WJc2uxrM/v-deo.html
We need more Anthony. He knows his stuff.
He's the real nerd. I mean look at him!
@@sayapunyecite He reminds me of Lord Gaben
Gabben's son
@@MrVybson DON'T TAKE THE NAME OF OUR LORD IN VAIN
He reminds me of 'Fat Neil', remember?
It’s like those 657,000 mAh batteries or 6 trillion volt stun guns on e bay
Literally....😅
😂
657,000 mAh that’s old news 1.4 billion trillion mAh is where it’s at
😂
@@kaiyushe7242 it's not amps, it's milliamp hours
I think I might be homosexual.
What the hell is that..
lmao
Lmfao
Nah fam, just wear your tinfoil hat and it works.
Lollll
"That's sound like dubious claim" yeah Linus, like 1TB for 15 bucks seems legit.
Why does Linus look younger than usual, I legit thought I was watching a video from 2016
it's counterfeit Linus.
Cuz his hair is down
I also looked at the timestamp to check if this was an old video hehe
@@munozyoshi you can't age with socks in your sandals. that's
why
the audio too
In reality, this SD card would be a black hole
u have the gay
@Trump The Nun me too i already subscribed to your channel with my 400 alts please do the same thanks.
@@amedicabg i know what you have, but what have i?
@@rob6508 He would only get scammed if he thought he was really getting a 1 TB card. He knew it wasn't going to pencil out to 1 TB. This is an educational video.
To @"iwin" you statement is not really correct (assuming u mean there'd be so much packed into such a small space that it would implode upon itself) is not really a valid concern considering the current stated capacity of the "SD" design specs for "sdxc" a maximum capacity of 2 TB for Micro and regular size (but not mini tho I believe, though I could be wrong since I haven't looked in a while, that they only have the sdHC cap on data size and there are not xc in mini which would make sense because virtually zero currently produced products use mini sds- theyre all micro or full size and even not alot of older ones which most arnt even comparable with SDHC) is 2TB. (Good luck finding them on the market yet tho.)
I’m gonna buy one right after I download some more ram
ooh, what site do you use?
Crap. you and bookworm deluxe are always the one to comment first huh.
You and bookworm deluxe are always the first to comment huh.
Downloadmoreram.com
Crudes oh you can download micro sd cards by the way. I already got 128gb on my iPhone 2s
The funny part is that we're in an era now where a 256GB legit MicroSD is $35 at MicroCenter. Flash memory gets so damn cheap, it's hilarious
I bought a 512gb Samsung one off Amazon for $25 a month ago
I feel like Linus doesn’t get enough credit for his presenting skills. He’s walking around, looking away from the camera/teleprompter, and still manages to do a really good job delivering information.
His video about Intel was amazing
It's because he's really passionate about what he does and it really shows
no, he really does suck.
Some of these product descriptions are absolutely hilarious, I remember one of them said "new upgraded SD card capacity has been expanded and upgraded from original". When I asked the seller what that meant, they said that they were able to "increase the onboard storage capacity" of these cards. Suspicious...
sounds good to me
Meanwhile 1tb micro sd cards have become a reality already...
SanDisk's will read at 170 MB/s, write at 90. It's probably going to be a million dollars. Unfortunately, it seems MicroSD is going the way of the dodo on phones.
@Baa baa Black Sheep Samsung doesn't have a 1TB SDcard... You got scammed.
@@kveeder3224 Phones use eMMC chip, which is basically a soldered MicroSD
@@kveeder3224 SanDisks? Hahahaha SD in SD card does not mean SanDisk.
@@Velldog What I meant was "SanDisk's 1TB SD Card". Sorry for the confusion.
THE TROUBLE WITH SOME FEED BACK IS people do it even before thoroughly checking things out , so they give feed back as positive and later on find out the stuff actually is bad , others see all the positive feed back and keep ordering things based on it.
Sandals during winter in Canada?
*Savage*
*here*
I didn't read the whole comment and I clicked *Savage* thinking it was a read more button. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽
The socks keep him warm
Yup those dam sandals 👡 hahahah
The office is heated
Many scammers offers you, when you report them some problems with any ítem, a full refund if you just don't report any problem to eBay and give them a positive vote. Most people try to avoid waiting time for eBay and PayPal solve a dispute.
so I can get a free 32gb sd card through a dispute
scam the scammers
I've had some scammer try and persuade me to not put a dispute in and they would sort it. Hell no, the time for them to be honest was when they sent it in the first place, they lost the trust as soon as they tried to scam someone. 😁
@@WeeabooTrashChannel Yeah, but it's not worth the risk of your shit getting corrupted; even with linus's workaround.
They should accept the refund and then leave a bad review.
I experienced this in person while I was on a ship in Shanghai. Talked to a vendor who was selling electronics and asked for an external hard drive. He handed me a "1TB Toshiba Canvio?" and I tested it like you did. Files transferred and opened no corruption until a week later. I opened the case and there was no HDD, but instead 2 bolts and a small flash drive hot glued on one side of the case... At least they added the bolts for weight lol
I bought these 2 of these 1 tb pendrive from wish for $5
U really don't look too smart just for the fact u bought electronics in China LOL They fake everything over there.
@@wds3222 I actually got a couple legitimate Razer items and SanDisk Drive for about 75% of the US market at the time. To be fair the drive worked when I tested it.
@@mattholmes8214 I mean ofc they will have some legit stuff over there LOL There is no such a thing as 100% for anything but dont u think its a pain in the ass that u need to be extra careful on everything u bought over there?
@@wds3222 it definitely was a pain but Sim Lim will always be a cool memory. No regrets going to Asia.
10:24 I like how they used Comic Sans there. The perfect usage for that font.
0:00 - Oh, look, a new video! This is gonna be good!
0:52 - * Has a shock induced seizure *
Linus: buy a 1TB sd card for $30
Card: fake
linus:😮
*pikatchu opened mouth meme*
Aurélien ETIENNE dead meme
Please just let this meme die
Linus: ohh😮 what the Frick I got scammed.
@@aure_eti you cant even spell pikachu
Damn, just ordered my 20TB micro SD from wish for 15$ :(
I hope it's a joke😂
Loool
Wtf is wish? U deserve to be scammed if u use such shady websites?
@@daniel14871 It's not his fault you dump truck
Are these people for real¿¿¿¿
I thought i was so lucky when i found one of these memory cards and decided to copy all of my school works on it and it left sleepless nights for a week!
I've had the fun of watching files corrupt in front of my eyes.
I saw one for 20 something dollars
> found one of these memory cards
Don't plug random SD cards and USB sticks you find on the floor into your PC. You're almost asking for malware.
As an ex ebay employee... The reason they have positive feedback over a year is because they shilled it. Ebay checks for this but over a shorter timeframe. Also, they might have made a few genuine sales. However you can be certain that any feedback received for that item is either fake or someone who bought it, copied a small file on it and then left feedback. To be fair, anyone who bought that probably isn't tech savvy enough to realise it's a scam until too late.
"To be fair, anyone who bought that probably isn't tech savvy enough to realise it's a scam until too late." yeah, that's the bottom line, the people who would leave negative feedback for a product like this are by and large savvy enough not to buy it in the first place. It takes a *lot* of photos or apps or consumer quality video to fill up 32GB.
How about the fact that you must wait 7 days from the time it shows the item as delivered before you can leave Not positive feedback on ebay which by that point most people forget about it
As an ex-ebay employee.. Maybe you could also tell why you wouldn't just keep track of obvious scams? (e.g. Microsd cards that cannot exist?) Machine learning could be taught to recognize a lot of stuff too.
@@HoudiniFontmeister the idea with that is to give the seller time to resolve the difficulties. So if something breaks in shipping for example you contact them and the seller ships a new one. You do get prompted to leave feedback later though.
@@rkan2 they do. They remove millions and millions a year. However it looks for obvious risks rather than combos. So it'll check low feedback sellers with higher worth items. Branded stuff and obviously illegal stuff. Now it's been 4 years since I worked there so they've probably improved it. However there's over a billion items on ebay every month. Some will get through.
Linus runs from bed naked 😂😂
Gets sponsored by Mack Weldon to give him a pair of boxers
Was he really though😳
That fake SD card has since seen taken down from eBay... but the fake 1tb micro sd cards claiming to be from PNY and Huawei are still there >:(
Bought a Huwei one with the exact same packaging and 32 gb actual storage! Hoping to get a refund... which could make it a free 32 gb sd card. Fingers crossed.
It’s so funny watching this back only 2 years later now that a real 1tb micro sd card is only $200
*"ONLY"*
My whole setup is Around 300
@@annickgunes8834 was thinking the same, in a few years, we will laugh with these prices. So much has changed past years.
@@IJoeAceJRI Now I need to check what it’s like now…
ONLY? I bought my switch lite palkia and dialga edition for $108. The SD card would cost more rofl.
10:05 This is roughly the speed of my laptop.
Here is why people gave positive reviews:
1. Buy this fake product (preferably from Singapore)
2. Realise that it is not a 1TB drive but 32gigs or so
3. Take screenshots and pictures of the product and also ebay's description
4. Raise a dispute against seller on grounds of "item does not match the description", backed by ebay money back guarantee.
5. The seller will likely try to knock off the price but if you keep firmly answering his/her messages demanding a full refund he will eventually yield (1 to 2 weeks).
6. You get your money back in full and you get to keep the product unless seller pays the shipping back (which is absurdly expensive)
7. Reformat the drive (firmware) to match its actual size or use some other means to prevent the drive from overwriting.
But even if you do get sub-par drives free this way it's easier just to get extra work and buy a legitimate drive from reliable sources. Even if you fix these drives it is possible that they are old and will not last long anyway.
This does not explain the positive reviews at all.
@2ByQ this is very true, i would still give a crappy review even though they let me keep it. shady business methods, shitty customer service and crap product.
@@TheByQQ you will be amazed 99.9% of stupid people leave feedbacks JUST BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED THE GOODS (in Aliexpress, if you take the time, half of feedbacks are "LOOKS NICE, I STILL DIDN'T TRIED IT".........probably also 99% of people have no idea they are over-writing their own files multiple times.........they probably will think there was a problem with the file itself......because unless you use it to backup movies, how many pictures you need to take with your camera to reach 32GB of data?...probably they realize the scam months after they bought it, and by then, the seller either fly away, or they can't leave any feedback (eBay has 90 days I think, to reverse or edit or leave a feedback)
@@TheByQQ If you leave a negative review, they will often keep bothering you and annoying you until you change it to be positive, sometimes even offering you money just to get you to change it to positive.
Lord English I had one send me a dollar bill with the goods and asked me to leave a nice review. Never did, and I used that dollar on gum.
In even more words: Buy fake SD card, test for scam, report buyer and invoke Ebay's buyer protection, get your money refunded and a free lower capacity SD card.
Repeat process, get as many free SD cards, resell on eBay.
@@qwertymeinfuhrer mindblown...
My dad did exactly that one time. But the capacity was so small that it ended up being completely useless
The few dollars worth of SD card you get for all that invested time?
Very dangerous using a fake card. They overwrite themselves..I would NEVER trust real data to a fake card; ALWAYS use H2TestW to verify before using!
Now I know why my SD Card said on it:
100% not fake
*2 tb flash drive disliked this*
oh xiaomify channel icon is like yours
pink Fungi yeah it does.
Huh...
@@detectivemoore9128 is this like one of first results for letter X ?
the real scam is this audio quality lol. jk it happens ♥
Nah real scam is his hair
yah i was confused for a sec..thought my headset was dying
@@rocky2694 PLOT: Your Headset is dying :D
just finished the video, no audio issues at all
so..im not the only one experiencing those electrical spark sounds? im glad to hear that i wouldn't have to warranty my speakers..
There are full time jobs in china that involves giving positive reviews to items on sites like taobao, aliexpress, ebay, etc. This is real, and they send out job offers through text without shame. They send these messages to random emails, and phone numbers in China to get people to sign up. I used to live in China and have received these messages before.
Let's face it, CHINA IS BULLSHIT
Nope, they r scams intended for people who r willing to earn "easy money". Actuall pro reviewers are non-exist due to algorithms that ban those folks from using taobao.
If you lives in china,you need to face it.There are jobs like leaving fake reviews and making fake transactions.Many online sellers on taobao.com needs that because it will give you a better ranking and if you are ranked,you can get on their front page.
The sale of sale numbers do exists, but there is no pro reviewers. Sellers usually send people big coupons via crowd-sourcing. Then a random ppl buy and no actuall goods is sent or more often sth cheap (e.g: a birck, not the Supreme branded ones) is sent. There is no pro reviewer simply because the reward is really few, just like how much u get when u use GoogleOpinionRewards.And those who connect sellers and reviewers make more money by giving out normal coupons, just like how u2bers do it. Actually it's really a shame that sometimes Chinese can't get real reviews from real customers.
花陽 小泉 What you describe does happen. Although most are for people who are interesting in earning quick bucks, my point is that these sellers really have no shame in committing fraud, and its not good for consumers who are not that versed in online shopping. They are not able to discern between whether something is a good deal or a scam. And I believe that’s something we can both agree on. I just wanted to say that so everyone knows that these kind of things do occur on a regular basis. The key is to caution everyone who is shopping at these sites to be extra careful.
"remember kids, when you get a new memory device, max out its capacity with complete crap to make sure its real before the return window" is my personal takeaway as assuming just from the price you're getting scammed and paying more for one could be a demon in is own right.
You can con the seller out of his money if you buy it from Aliexpress and then test it. Then open a dispute and send the the screenshot of the result. 100% refund
Hmm this sounds like interesting way to backup my files :D
was linus shooting a porno for a split second in the beginning ?
With him and jayztwocents
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Nice package
The audio sounds like it came from an old LTT video, brings back memories, up until the music hit
I get a nostalgia trip when I hear that old fast intro from 2014.
Damn 5 years ago 512GB was the highest- now it's 2TB as of June
You got pranked by China epic style
How to properly clean your worthless SD card
Veeryyy coooooolll
¿Really?
-H3
Flash Drive and SSD online selling in china is more often like to being fake scam
WHY IS EVRY THING RACIST
*You've been gnomed Asian style.*
epic style*
ga nomedd
gangnam style
dont say asian when u meant chinese or oriental, asian is not a country or race or culture
@@FritoLays1236?
"They just pretend there's a difference between small ones and big ones."
Whatever you say Linus...
Pp
I bought a 256GB SD card from Walmart last year that would corrupt data past 32GB. Wrote a review on the product listing which Walmart removed for "Legally sensitive information"
> LTT makes microSD card
> now with rgb and drop resistant
And water cooling
Just like those 12TB usb sticks for 3 dollars at AliExpress
Holy shit this was uploaded to floatplane almost a month ago...
Float what?
@@bloodcarver913 its LTT's early release platform
damn, I didn't know that the gap was ever that large :\
Floatplane gets vids dumped on it while UA-cam releases are timed so they have them out when expected.
I'd guess the gap depends a little on the content. Some stuffs comes up faster than others. Scrap Wars for one was a week delay if I recall correctly. And the stream content show up the same time.
holy crap, I forgot how young Linus looked before the beard
-No
-Hell no
-Yes, but only for people you really don't like
Now THAT sounds like some good summarys :D
Fun fact: if you connect the sdcard to your mobile, the mobile will recognize the correct size.
2nd fun fact: if you format the sdcard the sdcard in the mobile will remain the correct size.
my does try to format at full size, but fails.
and not as an internal disk, but as an external it would work, possibly.
Fun fact my phones read 118gb on my 128 cards and 220 on 256gb cards but when i pop em in my laptop boom it reads same as listed on sd with one exception a china knock off rated for 512gb my phones read as 400 my laptop well it dont match up soo the china is a dud
@@4wheel4life Windows use GiB for size. Androids use Gigabytes. Two different measurement.
@@StevenMyintThein GIgaByte..?
So you're saying my 36 Yodabyte nano SD card is fake? Smh....
Overwrite your files, I must
Nano SD lmao. We all know that Yodabyte cards are exclusively femto SDs
*yottabyte
@@munjee2 shhhhh.... it sounds better that way
That just means Yoda bit a piece of plastic 36 times.
I watched the first 24 second of this video ,and thats all what i want to know thank you linus
actually you are understanding a book from its coverwith some of its pages also
Linus: *Breaks the matrix*
Naked Guy: *runs out of view*
Newvegas100 oh no, that was still Linus
I'm pretty sure those SD cards are also fireproof.
And foolproof.
Don't forget bulletproof.
Just imagine all those people out there putting them into their smartphones and loosing irreplaceable data such as videos and pictures they take. Their greed really hurts people.
Everyone should always have backups for all their data. There are no excuses for using technology and not taking the time to learn it.
@@WellBeSerious12 > one may use SD cards to back up their phone's data, that's the point
That data will be shit anyway with the 3d photo's and snap chat ears and nose.
*LOSING* Lose or losing refers to something that is lost or will be lost or will have lost.
Loose or loosing is referred to as something that is released, is released, or will be released.
Example: I let loose of my rope, I was losing my grip. Thusly after losing my grip, I had to let loose of my other rope so I could keep my balance.
@@WellBeSerious12 As you age you will find what you said to be BS. You will regret it.
Thank you very much! I got this drive for a friend's birthday as a gift and he was overjoyed...I'm waiting to see his reaction in a month!
0:54 Who do I feel more sorry for...
The guy that saw it in person and had to record it or the guy that had to see it in editing for 10x longer than the clip actually is.
I bought a Sandisk branded microSD card through Newegg, came direct from China. I was using it for Raspberry Pi so was using the full capacity.
Basically Raspberry Pi wouldn't boot, the card would over right once it filled up, the capacity was maybe half, took me days to figure out what was happening, also I wondered why the paint was coming off and the color was off. Talk to Newegg and they replaced it with a true Sandisk. Sad thing is if someone bought it for a camera and popped it in, they wouldn't know for days, weeks, or months that there was a problem with the card and over writing they're photos.
And this has happened a lot..Mom & Pop bought an SD card for their once in a lifetime holiday to the island, took many pics of their only daughters wedding/grandchilds birth and found out all was over written on a 32gb card which was only 4gb.. ALWAYS run H2TestW before using a card. DEATH to card pirates..
you know newegg has third party sellers identical to amazon & ebay, right? there's no reason for a sold by newegg item to come from china
@@kn00tcn Newegg was bought by a company in china. So it is very likely their products can come from china. Nothing is stopping them from lying about their sources either.
Video: Fake SD cards show up everywhere, even on amazon.
Description: Buy SD cards on Amazon
...
He did say in the Video that it's more dependent on the Vendor, not the website.
If you're buying from vendors you can trust (Directly from the maker, Amazon themselves, or a famous brand-name vendor) then you can buy from Amazon... or anywhere else for that matter.
lol
I ALWAYS buy stuff like MicroSD cards directly from Amazon. Not from third-party Amazon sellers or from "Fulfilled by Amazon" sellers. Always check the buying options to know who you are buying from.
BTW same applies to phones. Lots of refurb phones get re-sealed and sold as "new" by third party Amazon sellers.
Buy directly from SansDisk or Kingston
I was after the Hakko soldering station and instantly I was surprised with the massive difference between the eBay 60GBP and Amazon cheapest at 120GBP. After some "youtube research" it becomes obvious, that those ones from eBay were just faked. All of them. Ever since, I do buy my memory cards on Amazon
lol.. you nearly blew it in the opening. after saying 32.99 you seemed to almost break character...
I find Anthony to be THE IT Overlord of Linus Tech Tips...
Does he have his own channel? This guy is awesome, he knows everything!
They are on Amazon too. last year I bought 2 "128GB" for 8 bucks each. I knew they were fake i just bought them for fun and re-partitioned them in command prompt. I'm surprised Linus didn't mention this, both his and one of my cards were labeled HC, a standard that's only good for 4-32gb. any more than 32gb needs the XC marking on it.
But why bother repartitioning a fake card? How long will it take it to swap a bit in the controller firmware and die with all your data in it?
Also, they're usually small 8GB cards
@@konatadesuka Ya they were 8gb. I was interested to see what I actually get. I don't really use them, maybe to take a picture from a PC to a printer or something unimportant like that. Another thing I found funny was that the picture of the card on amazon was just a Sandisk card that was badly photo shopped. it had a slightly blurry spot where a logo would be, so I put the image into Photoshop and raised the contrast and a couple of pink spots became visible on the totally black card and those spots lined up with sandisk's logo
True and addition to this is description: buy sd cards on Amazon (genius link)
@@serialexperimentsdave7213 So they edited it in paint and saved as a jpeg? Because that combination usually leaves a few of these pixels left lol.
@@lolindirlink yep, used the clone stamp to get most of the Sandisk logo gone then put in white 128GB, and the card didn't even look the same as in the picture
Cheap Chinese SD cards are fake. Who knew?
No one ._.
wtf dude you are a faker daker
well actually most china buyer knows about that....
@@linglin92 I've bought a few of them, while they were slow, they did work
I actually bought one who was 32 GB for 4 dollars of deal extreme. xD expecting it would be fake and being able to try it. But It was real, the speeds were 60 mb/s to! :) I used it in my smartphone for 2 years, now my girlfriend is using it for storing music lol. So It can happen. :) Just don't buy the larger ones. 32 GB should be the max you buy.
0:54 *pause it and you'll see something*
waaaayy too low!
You can see that he is wearing shorts
Ahh yes. So I’m not the only one who noticed
0.55
0:55 *
1:23 cool sporty man underwear company sponsoring a guy wearing grandpa sandal for an ad
no offense I am a fan of Linus
How the hell do I save money buying $28 boxer briefs a $32 white Tshirt and $24 socks? From Mack Weldon???
Linus Power, I guess
Just save it LoooL
Because they are REAL 128gb briefs..
The more you buy the more you save!
lmao thats more expensive than duluth trading co but their clothes are actually legit at least.
anyone else think that they clicked on a tech linked video when they saw the thumbnail?
Elijah Waite I did lol
I did 😂😂
Yup
Yes
It is not just micro cards that are being used for this scam. I bought a 2Tb SSD from AliExpress. It would not partition properly so I openned it up. It contained a single 256mb NAND.
Make a video about GPUs that pretends to be a 1060 or any other nice graphic card by using a modified BIOS but they actually have another old graphic processor
he done that already
Whats the video called?
girlsdrinkfeck no, he hasn’t, I’m speaking about extremely old chipsets like a 380 or a 480 with a modded bios that makes them appear to the PC like a 1060 for example but obviously they do not have the memory that the PC thinks they has by reading their bios so they just cause lots of graphical bugs in games that uses more graphical memory than the gpu really have since the PC tries to write data where storage does not exists; they are a gigantic scam that can easily fool someone who do not knows much about computers.
You can easily find them on eBay, Wish and many other websites.
Just run DBLSPACE over and over till you get the right capacity.
I used it last time at my 386 with 80 megabytes (not gigabytes!) HDD LOL :)
Should Linus have been in rewind?
Only if he's naked.
naw he would’ve dropped the play button
MKBHD was in there, so why not...
They would've put him in the battle bus so no
Welp, thank god he's not in it.
The thing is, it's so slow that by the time you've hit the 32-G limit, the return time has elapsed... Definitely a scam. And I got mine from Amazon.
It's not just microSD cards, fake USB thumb drives or those with fancy cartoon rubber claddings that say 8/16/32GB (or maybe bigger) that turn out to be just 4GB or less and are not at all reliable are all over Asia. They're a complete waste of money. Avoid like the plague.
Worst I've seen are a whopping 128 mb usb sticks... (but at least the outside was aluminum and could double as a bottle opener) D:
Or 10 amp hour powerbank filled with sand.
@14:51 wait for it............................................wait for it.............................BAM~! Anthony hits us with that COOL ASS STARE
"Chinese pirates, it's like they're not even trying." No, it's just them abiding by the (Chinese!) law which states exactly how close and not close your product may be to an existing one before it counts as a counterfeit. So what you really should be saying is" Chinese lawmakers, this is such an obvious ripoff, why do you let it count as it's own product with such minor differences?"
Classic Chinese IP law
I think they have so many good reviews because most of the people don't realise the files are overwritten. For many it will take months to fill up 32GB and by that time they already left a positive review.
From microsd cards to 20%off for underwear
well he was't wearing any just before
Isn’t it ironic that I got a wish.com ad?
Mack Weldon underwear, more storage capacity than a fake sd card
😊
😎
they also must be Made in China.
"Chinese Pirates... It's like you're not even trying!" - Linus, 2018
Thank you ebay for the 100TB SD Card!
#LinusLateTips
You were first.
Muahahahahahaha
your right
I got scamed on a 32g card lately
And of course ebay do absolutely nothing about this because they a profiting from crime.
you can refund it via paypal thanks to buyer protection. the only thing that help against online scams is common sense
@@WhiteoutTech But if the buyer doesn't realize the problem until after he starts filling the card up, it'll be to late for PayPal to compensate.
Though where else would we get $7 Windows 10 codes
@@peterpayne2219 what a lot of people don't realise is that Windows is 100% functional *forever* without any need to activate it. You only need to activate it if your conscience says so. But, if you're poor, you can't afford to have a conscience, lol 😛
@Anon 1 Actually those codes are scam, that can be blocked anyday. Second - there are free activators for windows. And third there is legal method to get license for free, which I've found and been using, but won't tell you cause I don't want them to close this "door" ;)
Parents: stay at least 3 feet away from the TV
*Linus literally leaning to get closer to the screen*
People always forget the golden rule. If it looks too good to be, it probably is. Remember that the next time you're browsing tinder as well. No problem your welcome.
SB SB Phi = 1.6........?
lol @Tinder
"If it looks too good to be"? - It must be Chinese.
So you're telling me that this 21 year old supermodel who owns houses in every country and wants to fly me out to las vegas is a scam ?
Damn.
@@blueblade455 Chinese in Tinder 😍🔥
9:24 It's funny how they used to sell fake 1GB SD Cards back then
Dude you got scammed I bought a 63tb flash drive for 6$ from wish.com
Haha bait you got em
@RainBowed - UA-cam dude in case you couldent tell, it's a joke. And the product is fake, it doesnt work. Please dont buy it. r/whooosh
Z X LOLOLOLOL xD REKT DUMBASS
@RainBowed - UA-cam why do you need to know?
Josh Fuller LOL CAUSE HE WANTS TO GET FUCKING SCAMMED
Somehow, I completely forgot that young Linus looked like a knockoff Willem Dafoe. He's really grown up, now, isn't he?
this Scam has been going on for years and its a nightmare,Buy your SD cards Direct from the Amazon or eBay official store and always run a Fake Flash Test
To folks in Europe:
There is a $43 shipping cost on the real fake LTT 1 Tb USB stick. $40 shipping for a $30 item.
It may well not be the font, but that the pirates are typing in full-width characters rather than "normal" half-width ones, which is common in East Asian language IMEs, and is what gets you your vaporwave text and such. 【１０２４ＧＢ】for example. That or, it may be just that Chinese IME text is defaulting back to SimSun (for Simplified or PMingLiU (for Traditional) fonts or possibly they're still using XP which doesn't handle English characters typed using the East Asian IMEs very well for whatever reason. Or a combination of both.
Also, I've seen this scam on USB sticks as well. It's quite easy to do with any flash-based device.
Linus looked like a kid on Christmas disappointed on the intro XD