Seen them sold by hawkers as well, and too cheap to be anything but a fake. I just do the easy thing, and buy the cheap low capacity ones, as in almost every case the maximum amount of data I want to transfer on a regular basis is under 8G, so the bottom of the range Sandisk 16G units are the perfect choice, from a reasonably reputable supplier. Have had a few fail after long use, so just cycle through a few to even out the wear cycles on them, leaving large storage in proper larger capacity drives. Have deliberately tried to kill a few, by running a live system on them, with swap enabled, and that took 2 days to kill the USB drive, with heavy use of swap on a system deliberately low on RAM. That was a old 4G one, that I had for a while, so just wanted to see how robust they are, and this was the closest to hand. Used more conservatively, and regarding them as temporary storage, not the only copy of your irreplaceable data like some do, is the good way to go.
Seen them sold by hawkers as well, and too cheap to be anything but a fake. I just do the easy thing, and buy the cheap low capacity ones, as in almost every case the maximum amount of data I want to transfer on a regular basis is under 8G, so the bottom of the range Sandisk 16G units are the perfect choice, from a reasonably reputable supplier. Have had a few fail after long use, so just cycle through a few to even out the wear cycles on them, leaving large storage in proper larger capacity drives.
Have deliberately tried to kill a few, by running a live system on them, with swap enabled, and that took 2 days to kill the USB drive, with heavy use of swap on a system deliberately low on RAM. That was a old 4G one, that I had for a while, so just wanted to see how robust they are, and this was the closest to hand. Used more conservatively, and regarding them as temporary storage, not the only copy of your irreplaceable data like some do, is the good way to go.
Once Amazon is contacted at least they take action. Seems like these fake product sellers forgot there going to the pokey
"Fools and their money...." Seriously, anyone with any reasonable level of intelligence should know to steer clear of these scams.
Maybe, but it’s the parents or grandparents that are not tech savvy buying gifts for the kids that may end up buying these thinking it’s a great gift.