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2TB Flash Drive Scam

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7 жыл бұрын

Just a PSA: Don't buy "2TB" flash drives for $10. They're scams. Honestly, the fact that this was even ~10-12GB was impressive.
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@homerisLT
@homerisLT 7 жыл бұрын
Buying a flashdrive from ebay is like borrowing a condom from a stranger.
@LRM12o8
@LRM12o8 7 жыл бұрын
lol, that comparison! I wouldn't even *borrow* a condom from a friend XD
@yannisgk
@yannisgk 7 жыл бұрын
HAHAHA!!!BORROW A CONDOM???FCK CONDOMZ!!!
@tamzf1
@tamzf1 7 жыл бұрын
Reminded me of a Seinfeld episode.
@utrak
@utrak 7 жыл бұрын
yeah it's not like ebay is one single shady internet store, tons of reputable retail chains have stores on ebay.
@orkhepaj
@orkhepaj 7 жыл бұрын
still better than no condoms
@TheOfficialStal
@TheOfficialStal 7 жыл бұрын
I have a friend who bought one of these and was convinced it was real, then he told me he backed up all his data on it. I not only had to explain to him that it was fake, but that he had also lost 100's of gigabytes of data. These scams really piss me off.
@cataria3903
@cataria3903 7 жыл бұрын
that's sad :(
@LRM12o8
@LRM12o8 7 жыл бұрын
Oh dear! I would totally die trying not to die laughing, if I was in your position!
@poprin5194
@poprin5194 7 жыл бұрын
BoardOfCircuit He also needs to learn what the term 'backing up' is in that case also!
@jschannel8624
@jschannel8624 7 жыл бұрын
100gb of porn loss is not a biggie honestly :)
@MaddieFrankX
@MaddieFrankX 7 жыл бұрын
That's ssad
@Larry
@Larry 7 жыл бұрын
Why does eBay still allow these to be sold? On the positive side, they're free USB sticks as you can claim your money back. but it's insane this still goes on.
@rolfpoelman3486
@rolfpoelman3486 5 жыл бұрын
Refunded even if not paid via PayPal?
@triliner254
@triliner254 3 жыл бұрын
Kek
@garfieldandfriends1
@garfieldandfriends1 3 жыл бұрын
Even same for Shopee...
@leonisadimakuta24
@leonisadimakuta24 3 жыл бұрын
ďd
@larryjordan3544
@larryjordan3544 2 жыл бұрын
I have bought 7 USB 2 TB flash drives and successfully back up 4 computers. They work great. Also they were less than 10 dolloars.
@CarlosDiaz-je1bg
@CarlosDiaz-je1bg 7 жыл бұрын
I am glad someone is taking the effort to try to keep people aware of scams. Keep up the good work, would like to see more of these types of videos.
@andrejgrubor6182
@andrejgrubor6182 7 жыл бұрын
AMD logo on the box behind the monitor RYZEN ???
@smokeydops
@smokeydops 7 жыл бұрын
Yes, reviewers have them now.
@Andrzej_Szpadel
@Andrzej_Szpadel 7 жыл бұрын
yup
@GamersNexus
@GamersNexus 7 жыл бұрын
That's not there.
@andrejgrubor6182
@andrejgrubor6182 7 жыл бұрын
Gamers Nexus yup its not there i didnt see anything
@brixthomaris7917
@brixthomaris7917 7 жыл бұрын
Doesn't look like anything to me
@eunhjzjined3795
@eunhjzjined3795 7 жыл бұрын
Steve.. oh Steve. This is a 2TB drive. You just need windows 12 to use the full capacity
@prycenewberg3976
@prycenewberg3976 7 жыл бұрын
nonono, he needs Windows 9. That's why they never released it, because then it would reveal all of the price gouging tech companies do.
@kodek3930
@kodek3930 7 жыл бұрын
He must download more NAND flash storage so he can install it on that drive to unlock that capacity.
@dragonfyzex1546
@dragonfyzex1546 7 жыл бұрын
Pryce Newberg they did release it, you could have downloaded it but they took it down
@robinbernardinis
@robinbernardinis 7 жыл бұрын
The extra 2TB are DLC
@MrSirFluffy
@MrSirFluffy 7 жыл бұрын
He needs to delete system 32.
@ShawnStrickland
@ShawnStrickland 7 жыл бұрын
I heard that the human eye can't see more than 10GB anyways. So having a 2TB is just a waste.
@Zarcondeegrissom
@Zarcondeegrissom 7 жыл бұрын
Foot in mouth moment, clicked the wrong reply.
@ShawnStrickland
@ShawnStrickland 7 жыл бұрын
lol no worries :)
@dudeman1094
@dudeman1094 4 жыл бұрын
Lol...I get it....I think
@truemendus
@truemendus 2 жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha ha haaaaaa
@RimaLabidal
@RimaLabidal Жыл бұрын
Cringe as hell
@krudmonger
@krudmonger 4 жыл бұрын
I... wish I had looked into this twetny hours ago. Moral of the story: don't shop online at 2am.
@lockhart1895
@lockhart1895 4 ай бұрын
😂😂 man i was shooing on the Walmart app for a flash drive and saw this and went “ this can’t possibly be right “ how and just 12$ ??? How did they fit that much storage is such a small thingy nah let me look up a review “ 😂😂
@bigsmoke6975
@bigsmoke6975 7 жыл бұрын
So you are telling me that my 2TB of Porn are gone?
@SimonZellox
@SimonZellox 7 жыл бұрын
The comment matches the channel avatar perfectly!
@spartacusmills
@spartacusmills 7 жыл бұрын
There still should be about 10Gb left, just hope that it hasn't only saved the 'acting' bit at the start of each video. :)
@manicdemise
@manicdemise 7 жыл бұрын
TheLegend27 not having an external drive dedicated to porn, what a casual.
@AG-sy4wt
@AG-sy4wt 7 жыл бұрын
if you have 2 tb then i know you have a backup drive ;)
@sebastianphilpot621
@sebastianphilpot621 7 жыл бұрын
TheLegend27, who did you kill for that username?
@caffeineaddict213
@caffeineaddict213 7 жыл бұрын
"Plugged it in the wrong way twice, as is the standard with USB." I lost it, haha! And it's so true!
@ArtisChronicles
@ArtisChronicles 7 жыл бұрын
HP Mønsted I honestly never have that problem
@ZeliardFTW
@ZeliardFTW 4 жыл бұрын
@@ArtisChronicles Yeah I just look at the usb sides and know which way they should be placed. And I have no clue how he lost it, when he didn't have the USB to start with.
@agentbb007
@agentbb007 7 жыл бұрын
eBay needs to start cracking down on this type of garbage that's on their site.
@zhain0
@zhain0 7 жыл бұрын
Strider it's not hard to spot it, I've used ebay for years and never got scammed
@flare0080
@flare0080 7 жыл бұрын
Just click "North America" in the filters on the left side while searching. That will eliminate all the garbage.
@svampebob007
@svampebob007 7 жыл бұрын
nope some claim to be located in Norht America or Europe, but still it gets shipped from china, the rating is a much better indicator, as close to 100% and with a couple tens of thousands votes will prevent most of the shit
@flare0080
@flare0080 7 жыл бұрын
If a seller lies about their physical location, it's instant buyer win in an eBay claim.
@Yukatoshi
@Yukatoshi 6 жыл бұрын
eBay don't care.
@Matthew-jl6gl
@Matthew-jl6gl 7 жыл бұрын
Hey Steve, wanna move that box a little further out so we can see it?
@Drakeziel
@Drakeziel 7 жыл бұрын
Tech innuendo LMFAO
@Pazo139
@Pazo139 7 жыл бұрын
Which one?
@Mebbwebb
@Mebbwebb 7 жыл бұрын
AMD one behind the Laptop
@qazwsxedcrfv4183
@qazwsxedcrfv4183 7 жыл бұрын
Mebbwebb He bought at on ebay too and only got a quarter of the box...
@gmo4250
@gmo4250 5 жыл бұрын
I have noticed on eBay and Amazon that these 1TB or 2TB sticks have some additional notes that claim a minimum size of 8GB. They then go on to warn about errors. It’s still a scam, perhaps they use this to stop returns? Here is one example from an Amazon 1TB stick: “The capacity and speed of these Flash Drives can vary with a minimum of 8GB usable storage capacity and upwards, the Flash Drives may display more memory being available but errors may occur once the maximum usable capacity has been reached.” I have reported some of these to Amazon, but I think they just ignore me.
@450AHX
@450AHX 7 жыл бұрын
I've gotten screwed (or, rather, people have attempted to screw me) by these things several times. Nowadays some counterfeits are so good that you literally can't tell the difference. One seller in particular lied straight to my face about the fakeness of the product. When you buy flash drives, the first thing you should always do is make sure that you can fill the drive and get back exactly what you wrote: 1. Grab a file large enough to fill the drive. 2. Compute a hash (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, whatever) for it. 3. Copy the file to the drive. 4. Unplug the drive and plug it back in. 5. Copy the file back to the computer. If this process fails at any point, this is enough to consider the drive fake. 6. Compute the same hash as on step 2 on the copy. If the hash is not exactly the same, the drive is either fake or faulty.
@Parvenu90
@Parvenu90 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for debunking the cheap 2TB flash drive scam. Sadly, over 3 years later this scam is still alive and kicking on eBay and Amazon likely due to impulse buys before learning the pathetic truth since "it's only $10 dollars", lol.
@rosalieolicia2801
@rosalieolicia2801 2 жыл бұрын
I just got scammed thankfully I saw some comments on the problem Im searching bcoz of this damn 2tb usb
@dwane6481
@dwane6481 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah don't trust eBay drives, my 4gb (generic Chinese brand name here) 970 only has 3.5 gb What gives
@noobblet1996
@noobblet1996 7 жыл бұрын
coincidence? I think no !
@cheescake98
@cheescake98 7 жыл бұрын
Dawson Cook the last 0.5 GB is just extra slow, but still available
@mr.rapter4517
@mr.rapter4517 7 жыл бұрын
Thats cause GB->GiB conversion, its not really considered scam these days.
@DaybreakPT
@DaybreakPT 7 жыл бұрын
Mr. Rapter Thats a joke my friend, it relates to the vram fiasco of the gtx 970, where the last 0.5 gb of vram were so slow they might as well not even be there.
@UKPhoto111
@UKPhoto111 7 жыл бұрын
Probably 4Gb is the capacity before the drive is formatted and ready to use.
@saiyoucho
@saiyoucho 7 жыл бұрын
I had a guy at my last workplace claiming his friend bought a 10$ 512gb legit drive. I explained to him several times that it most likely was a fake drive like this one. But apparently it seemed more plausible to him to believe that you could get a usb drive like that for 10 bucks.
@neutronpcxt372
@neutronpcxt372 7 жыл бұрын
Wait, fake DVI cables exist? Man, I learn something new everyday. Almost, is that a Ryzen box behind the monitor? Because I'm pretty sure it is.
@guywhitey2028
@guywhitey2028 7 жыл бұрын
the 4 people who voted down on the video are definately scammers
@Teeb2023
@Teeb2023 7 жыл бұрын
...or butthurt buyer's-remorsers.
@km5405
@km5405 7 жыл бұрын
those 4 people bought one xD
@KrisHandsome
@KrisHandsome 7 жыл бұрын
A 2tb hard drive is almost $100. I'd imagine making that much smaller would cost a pretty penny
@Quetzalcoatl0
@Quetzalcoatl0 7 жыл бұрын
imagine if it's a usb killer :D
@muhammadsubhan7329
@muhammadsubhan7329 7 жыл бұрын
then who ever owns it is totally fucked!
@DaybreakPT
@DaybreakPT 7 жыл бұрын
Quetzalcoalt If you dont mind selling a 50$ usb flash drive for 10$ then you could fuck up some poor guys 600$ pc.
@jonnathan780
@jonnathan780 7 жыл бұрын
Dave Sterling it doesn't cost 50$ to make a USB killer 😂 so China could do this very easily
@pflernak
@pflernak 7 жыл бұрын
Nah Id rather add an extra function to the usb. Like send alt+f4 after a set interval. Not sure though if one USB can simultaneously be a keyboard and an external memory device.
@markdefish
@markdefish 7 жыл бұрын
nipi tiri you could make it act like a USB hub and then 1 drive could be dozens of devices. Also most phones show up as a phone and a storage device.
@SjoerdvanGestel
@SjoerdvanGestel 7 жыл бұрын
experienced this years ago when 256GB micro sd were pretty expensive but not so much on ebay... was indeed a scam but was not aware this was possible with micro sd. got my money back in the end :)
@claytonclarkk
@claytonclarkk 7 жыл бұрын
This has been a thing for a long time, I work at an electronics store and people come in all the time and demand 2tb flash drives, and dont believe me when I try to explain to them this scam D:
@triliner254
@triliner254 3 жыл бұрын
Of course, they are smooth brained boomers
@robrudock3452
@robrudock3452 6 жыл бұрын
I'm very tech savvy and they got me. But hey, I'm 46, my first hard drive was 100mb. If you wanted a 1mb Ram upgrade it would set you back a good $55. From my perspective, memory has gotten incredibly large and cheap. This just seemed like more of the same, some new recent algorithm or process that was at least plausible.
@tomgreg2008
@tomgreg2008 6 жыл бұрын
Well, I was looking at them seriously for awhile myself!
@augustvalek
@augustvalek 5 жыл бұрын
My dad gifted one to me and I was really suspicious about the whole deal and decided to do some research, I'm glad to know I didn't make a terrible mistake by using it
@ninjasonmylawn25
@ninjasonmylawn25 4 жыл бұрын
I have a client that is constantly buying these scam items. I have repeatedly told him to call me before making these purchases but he somehow believes that I'm the one who is being "less than honest". For the life of me, I can't figure out why he keeps coming back to me. His "2TB" flash drive for 4.49 is 16GB and his 39.99 1080 TI is.... well..... it's not. I've been showing him your videos as proof. I do look forward to seeing what "new technology" he brings in though. Keep up the good fight sir, I love your work!
@erikruizphotography5382
@erikruizphotography5382 3 жыл бұрын
you save me from getting scammed! Thank you! I almost fall on eBay, but I read the description and it said 2tb real 32gb and that was made me wondering what does that means. So I asked a question to the guy and he told me that I will only be able to save 32 gb on the USB but on the system it is going to appear like it has 2tb of space. Why would I want to buy a 2tb memory which is really a 32 gb?
@systematic101
@systematic101 7 жыл бұрын
Way back when 512MB drives were new and costed between $60-$100 I bought one at a store. Took it home, it showed up as 512MB, but I noticed once I passed 256MB the files were corrupt. wrote a quick batch that would copy a 1MB image repeatedly onto the drive to show image 257 and up wouldn't show the image. Got a full refund from the store and bought a 512MB from another store.
@johnny9toes
@johnny9toes 4 жыл бұрын
I saw an ad on Facebook for the same offer. I needed to look to the internet about it and sent me to you. Thanks for the details. Well done. I now continue to be watchful on B.S. like this flash drive.
@toddnolastname4485
@toddnolastname4485 7 жыл бұрын
I don't think I would ever consider buying anything computer off of Ebay. I have a difficult time buying something off of Amazon if I'm not buying from Amazon.
@dankjarrel
@dankjarrel 4 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see a class action law suit against the people who perpetrated this fraud.
@producerevan88
@producerevan88 7 жыл бұрын
RYZEN BOX?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
@someguy872
@someguy872 7 жыл бұрын
yep its the rizen 1000% sure
@clupean
@clupean 7 жыл бұрын
The scam in the video is an obvious one. The problematic scams are the ones selling a reasonable capacity like 16GB for a reasonable price like $8 when in fact the capacity is only 2GB or 4GB. Only the latest 2GB or 4GB written are working because the USB controller is in a loop: the new data overwrites the old one.
@brealistic1970
@brealistic1970 7 жыл бұрын
Anybody wanting to use cheap slow flash ram for a backup is definitely inexperienced with flash ram. Imagine how long it would take to transfer 2 TB of data at old cheap flash drive speeds?
@terrancejackson3
@terrancejackson3 7 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone give this a thumbs down? This is very informative
@lizzsszzy7800
@lizzsszzy7800 5 жыл бұрын
THe scammers themselves
@a.s514
@a.s514 7 жыл бұрын
Funny enough, right under your video is 3 sponsored items, one of which is a 2TB flash drive for $39.00.
@Henoxyu
@Henoxyu 7 жыл бұрын
yep, I've got a couple of 64Gb flash drives and each one of them has only 8 Gb of real capacity. I've paid 20$ for each, not 9$. And now I hate China.
@technodaz
@technodaz 7 жыл бұрын
Some adverts are hilariously honest with such great lines as "factory upgraded to 2tb" while another states clearly the actual size and how it shows up and that it can damage files .....under 200 different pictures of it clearing showing a "2TB" Flash drive.
@gogolapeter
@gogolapeter 6 жыл бұрын
A LOT of flash drives on ebay are scam. They often take flash chips that don't pass QC and make them whatever size. I had a 16GB drive that was only 2GB in reality. I had a 4GB drive with the last 200MB being corrupted, so it probably didn't pass QC. TEST BEFORE USE, ASK FOR REFUND!!!
@biostemm
@biostemm 7 жыл бұрын
When flash drives first came out, I bought a few on ebay, and learned the hard way just how bad of a deal they are; I only buy brand name ones, from reputable dealers, now...
@jeffking
@jeffking 7 жыл бұрын
Love that just below the video is a sponsored section featuring 2TB flash drives on eBay.
@fernandogaki5527
@fernandogaki5527 7 жыл бұрын
i recommend you to buy them through paypal And then open a dispute because data gets corrupted in it, give some easy profs, (recording with free OBS) and request a refund. You will get a 10-12gb pendrive for free. Do it and punish those scamers
@b-bwars1698
@b-bwars1698 6 жыл бұрын
First off, I will openly admit I do not get along with computers and they don't like me either, so I am not extremely knowledgeable when it comes to stuff like this. That said, wish I had seen this video a month or so ago because I too got scammed. I purchased a 2TB flash drive from a Chinese dealer that had good marks (ratings, whatever they're called) and yes, I spent about $9 or so for the drive. I waited about a month for it to arrive, and when it did, I immediately tried to transfer a rather large amount of data to it, just over 500GB. First try failed, received error messages that data files were corrupted, but they worked fine on the computer I was transferring them from, tried again, same results. Did some online research and found it could be the file system, which was exFAT. Reformatted the drive to NTFS as suggested by the articles I read, several of them. Same issues after several more attempts to transfer the same files, each time different files were "corrupted." Finally I gave up and filed a complaint with eBay and requested a refund. That's when I found out the seller was no longer on eBay, apparently the seller was removed by eBay. Guess the seller got caught scamming, so now I'm wondering if I'll even get a refund. You learn something new everyday, to day I learned I got snookered. And people wonder why I don't trust ordering from eBay.
@andersgjerlw9636
@andersgjerlw9636 7 жыл бұрын
I honestly thought you were more cautious than this. If you ever get your hands on something that is really fake and its clearly been altered with beeing spoofed to a bigger size. I mean,the drive could very much contain a exec that could sniff out or send back to the pogrammer. The seller could get information about your pc,your network set up that could be critical info of beeing hacked.
@GamersNexus
@GamersNexus 7 жыл бұрын
We already checked it and used it on a disposable system.
@BrownChickenBrownKow
@BrownChickenBrownKow 7 жыл бұрын
instead of buying them and fueling the actual reason they keep making those you could easily explain how it's not possible for someone to make something that is THAT cheap (goes for nearly every piece of hardware that is "too good to be true") and tell ppl to report those items to ebay. (you don't need to put your hands in a fire to explain ppl fire is hot)
@ottoeliasson4671
@ottoeliasson4671 7 жыл бұрын
illuminati confirmed, notice in the lower middle under the monitor there's a AMD Ryzen box :)
@DaybreakPT
@DaybreakPT 7 жыл бұрын
Otto Eliasson you mean ryzen review confirmed ; D
@jeffbangle4710
@jeffbangle4710 7 жыл бұрын
And KZbin is now displaying ads for several types of cheap 2TB flash drives under your video...
@Prence
@Prence 7 жыл бұрын
I bought a webcam that they said was 12MP 1080p for like $10 off a Chinese site, turns out it was 640x480 when I got it. it worked so there was no way I could return it. So I learned my lesson when it comes to things too goo to be true. lol
@bencheshire
@bencheshire 4 жыл бұрын
What a fascinating scam. I did not expect it to appear to be 2GB in the finder. That's pretty clever.
@KTSpeedruns
@KTSpeedruns 7 жыл бұрын
What is awful is that I got scammed like this, and the scammer kept saying that I was angry because I don't know how to use flashdrives on a computer and he kept saying he would pray for me. Like, WTF? I searched for months for a tool to fix the issue, and while there was a tool to find the actual size of the drive, there was no tool to fix it, which means it's easy for scammers to just get away with this. When buying something that looks too good to be true, look at the seller's ratings and reviews. It will often reveal if it's a scam or not.
@ScorpionXII
@ScorpionXII 2 жыл бұрын
I saw one of these on Amazon and Walmart too... nasty scam indeed.
@stumbling
@stumbling 7 жыл бұрын
I don't understand scammers like this. Why not just sell it as a 16GB stick for $8? That's a fairly reasonable price. You could make a decent amount selling these things legitimately, why lie? They're obviously not selling many by faking it if they dropped the price by 20% in a short space of time.
5 жыл бұрын
Different cultures have different relationships with the truth. It's a western christian thing to value honesty. Islam encourages them to lie to non believers and I don't want to be racist but I think Chinese naturally try and screw people over and expect to get screwed over it's like haggling sort of.
@markusTegelane
@markusTegelane 4 жыл бұрын
Protip: When plugging in a USB device in a horisontal port, make sure that the USB logo is on top. This always ensures that you'll plug it in the correct way. On verical port there is no standard, but if you can see the port's plastic part you can line the plug's plastic part on the opposite side. This also works if the plug is missing the USB logo. If you can't see the port and it is in vertical orientation, you're out of luck and still have to try to plug it in in both orientations (worst case scenario). If you happen to have a USB-C port on the host device you can bypass this problem, provided that the client device also supports type C. If you use type B, the port will have a specific shape, which ensures that you'll get it in at most with 2 attempts and it is on the client device anyway which usually makes it easy to see the port on the device. Edit: One letter
@michaelhoste_
@michaelhoste_ 2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, my PC and laptop both have horizontal ports that are the opposite way around, so the rule doesn't hold. I think I get about a 60-70% failure rate plugging a usb in the right way. lol
@DeadnCold
@DeadnCold 7 жыл бұрын
I'm just amazed they don't come loaded with malware.
@JoonKang
@JoonKang 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video, I live in South Korea and one of their online shops had a "Lenovo" 2TB for $40, thank God I received a text from the seller saying due to demand they don't have inventory, so I told him to cancel my order and I did my research and discovered your video, thank you.
@IAmTheRealKen
@IAmTheRealKen 7 жыл бұрын
It's kinda weird how if it's too good to be true, it usually is. However, I bought 5 X540-T2 10GbE networking cards which are normally $700 for $100 (I saw some for $300 on eBay, but that was still too much for me), and they all operate at full speeds and they are still running just fine. So, perhaps it's not always if it's too good to be true it probably is.
@mijail2646
@mijail2646 7 жыл бұрын
but these drives aren't the big problem, cuz most of us know that it's impossible for it to be 2tb at 15 bucks, the problem are the ones that say 64 or 32gb but in reality are 8 or 16 gb, these are the real scam for most people
@pentalway
@pentalway 7 жыл бұрын
Funny, I'm getting an ad right below your video for 2TB flash drives on ebay for around $20 lol.
@thisrocks
@thisrocks 7 жыл бұрын
Hmmm, I hope you plugged this into a dummy system first and did some serious AV scanning on it. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife. I'd never plug a non reputable USB drive into any of my systems
5 жыл бұрын
Someone needs to invent the USB condom.
@YoStu242
@YoStu242 7 жыл бұрын
Well heck, even 128GB flash drive I bought out of curiosity turned out to be scam and it's actual capacity was about 25GB. Not bad tho considering the price after repartitioning to 25GB, except that slow write speed makes flashdrive borderline useless unless I have all day to copy stuff there.
@leemcbroom4708
@leemcbroom4708 5 жыл бұрын
I got scammed for a 250GB flash drive. How can I tell the actual size of the drive? Add 1GB video at a time until videos quit playing (like you did)? Can I "unspoof" it?
@Syrus7sk
@Syrus7sk 2 жыл бұрын
I did the squinty eye meme when I saw these on Amazon. Searched it on youtube and immediately clicked on this video. Thanks.
@AdlinLing
@AdlinLing 5 жыл бұрын
I keep seeing 16GB (2x8GB) RAM modules for sale on Ebay at Buy It Now price of under $20 even though real ones are selling for over $50. The seller accounts are almost always new with zero feedbacks.
@raylynch8419
@raylynch8419 3 жыл бұрын
Very informative, well presented and very credible. Great work. 👍
@rhkips
@rhkips 7 жыл бұрын
Buy them all, file complaints against the sellers, receive refunds, turn around and sell them as the size they actually are for more than you paid for them.
@NokthanA
@NokthanA 5 жыл бұрын
2019 Seller: Do you know there is a ten dollar flash drive with 5TB? Me: ...
@antipathy17
@antipathy17 7 жыл бұрын
For such a big issue to consumers, what is ebay doing about this? Seems like they are making a minor effort so they can say they are trying while ignoring the mass scale of it for the profit.
@christopherkidwell9817
@christopherkidwell9817 4 жыл бұрын
I do not understand this nor how people get fooled by these scams today. Honestly: If something sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. Just buy from Newegg or another reputable seller and refuse to give the scammers any of your hard-earned money, full stop.
@Sparkette
@Sparkette 4 жыл бұрын
What if you know it's a scam? If you test the drive and file an "item not as described" dispute, you can probably turn it around on them and get it for free. There's no guarantee of how big a drive you'll actually get until you test it, but you can't complain about free. Plus you get to waste a scammer's money.
@jareds8729
@jareds8729 4 жыл бұрын
i cant believe this is going on, search 2 tb flash and the first amazon listing shows a flash stick while the reviews and questions are about a christmas stocking. How is this allowed?
@reslight
@reslight 4 жыл бұрын
I bought one advertised on Facebook from BKH. Using Fastcopy, I tried to copy several hundred gigabytes to the flashdrive. It stopped at just a little over 28 gb. I tried copying a lot pictures using the Windows 10 copy feature, it appeared to be working, but I found that all the files are unreadable. Thus, the first approximately 28 gb are readable; anything past that may appear to be on the flashdrive, but it is actually not there.
@TheItchyDani3l
@TheItchyDani3l 4 жыл бұрын
I saw an ad for this kind of product on Facebook. There was alot of people in the comments saying how it worked, they clearly didn't load more than a few GB onto it before they commented. I tried to report it to facebook, but they surprisingly didn't have any report category for scams or fraud, they only had a category for "spam" which sounds much less serious than a scam. And the worst part as it was a legitimate promotion, like, someone manually reviewed their ad and let it get onto facebook. Oh, and it said it was waterproof too!!! xD It was the same style that you have there, with no cap.
@lyingpancake95
@lyingpancake95 6 жыл бұрын
I got a "sponsored" bar under the video advertising "2tb Flash drives". *mixed signals*
@jonb5493
@jonb5493 4 жыл бұрын
Well done for exposing this. BTW I've suffered a scam with an allegedly "exfat-only" USB-HDs, priced about half what such a drive should be. Basically, it doesn't work. I suspect the "exfat-only" idea is silly.
@lgnfve
@lgnfve 7 жыл бұрын
this might be one of your best vids ever. short, informative and helpful
@cleetusvonbehren8847
@cleetusvonbehren8847 3 жыл бұрын
Just had a coworker show his off to me...and found this while investigating. I had a hunch it was bunk when he said it was 7 bucks. I won’t tell him. He’s happier not knowing.
@taylorwhisnsnt5526
@taylorwhisnsnt5526 7 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this. keep it to this kinda stuff and it's more entertaining
@mercedes300gd
@mercedes300gd 7 жыл бұрын
totally agree, i buy shit like that just to tear it apart myself haha
@FrenchKissx9
@FrenchKissx9 4 жыл бұрын
I have one of those from wish, it works perfectly. Using mine since 2 or 3 years, easily stocked 20 or 30Gb for now, everything works completely
@DanieleMestre
@DanieleMestre 4 жыл бұрын
Mine also. And everything opens perfectly :)
@michaelgariti8008
@michaelgariti8008 Жыл бұрын
Thing is, Ebay is the least of it. Go to Amazon and you'll pull up literally 1000s of "2TB" thumb drives for $19-119. I kind of knew that a 2TB stick shouldn't cost the SAME as a 128GB one, but like THOUSANDS of dollars? I know that you can get a legit single terabyte thumb stick for around $150...but why does doubling that cost more than a lot of houses?
@il2xbox
@il2xbox 7 жыл бұрын
wouldn't be surprised if these drives are putting viruses on your computer as well
@ArtisChronicles
@ArtisChronicles 7 жыл бұрын
il2xbox I can honestly say mine hasn't, but it is useless and it was a 64GB version.
@TheLegendofphantom
@TheLegendofphantom 4 жыл бұрын
This would've been nice to know a year ago before I bought those dumb fakes off Wish. I didn't even know you could spoof drives to make them appear as a different capacity. I formatted it and thought, "Well, it still says it, so it must be good..." Probably means my 500GB Huawei Micro SD in my phone is also not even close to 500GB... which would explain why my pictures "auto-corrupt." How disappointing, could've saved like 50 bucks.
@446gitsu
@446gitsu Жыл бұрын
Now this is the con of using "2TB" scamdrive: You can't use it as a bootable media, as if it will damage your drive, but can fix by reformatting in Diskpart. Second is that on some TVs, it'll not support exFAT (which is mostly the filesystem of those scamdrives), means you must reformat to NTFS/FAT32 or other compatible filesystems. Edit: Well, you can use it as a bootable drive, but only Linux ISOs. Currently, I have Ubuntu boot drive, using Etcher on Debian 11.
@sebianoti
@sebianoti 7 жыл бұрын
please tell me you requested a refund lol
@AngelGomez-if5un
@AngelGomez-if5un 7 жыл бұрын
9 bucks ffs, they probably did just because it was a scam, but the video is probably going to make them more money than that.
@DaybreakPT
@DaybreakPT 7 жыл бұрын
sebianoti Not to worry my friend they made TEN bucks off the video :D What matters is alerting people so they dont spend their hard earned 9 bucks on a fake drive and drive to starbucks instead so they spend them there. _This PSA was brought to you by Starbucks, keep drinking our coffee_
@lollllloro
@lollllloro 4 жыл бұрын
@@AngelGomez-if5un No, it is not about the money. It's about getting the scammers at least some consequences. I bought a very cheap 64GB microSD years back from ebay and got scammed, asked for a refund, and they started asking me to leave a positive review and promised to ship a "tested, working one" while claiming they "did not know that the supply was flawed". I of course declined the offer and definitely did not leave a positive review. I had to threaten them with ebay's "escalate dispute" button to get them to pay back my whatever change I spent on the thing.
@templin7
@templin7 Ай бұрын
These are also on Amazon, for like $60 I fell for it a while ago, I decided to do some research after becoming more knowledgeable in the subject, and realized I got scammed. So that's fun!
@catguy5425
@catguy5425 2 жыл бұрын
I found a 2TB flash drive on the Walmart website that just looks like a wireless mouse plug. Thankfully, I'm not stupid enough to actually fall for that bull, but I can't believe they could actually get away with that.
@user-pj5oi7nk1e
@user-pj5oi7nk1e 4 жыл бұрын
Imagine all 2TB files playing completely and he's scratching his head trying to figure out
@danieldesmondamofah155
@danieldesmondamofah155 7 жыл бұрын
actually you could have gotten your money back when you reported it for "I received an item that does not match the seller's description."
@greenyoshi24
@greenyoshi24 7 жыл бұрын
A good rule of thumb is to never by a flash drive with no brand on it as it is 9/10 fake.
@shadowtheimpure
@shadowtheimpure 7 жыл бұрын
I actually bought one solely for the purpose of getting the seller banned for selling counterfeit goods.
@Paguo
@Paguo 5 жыл бұрын
I saw this at joom and instantly knew it was bullshit, but got curious non the less. Thanks for clarifying
@sinusstudios2963
@sinusstudios2963 7 жыл бұрын
a german developer made a small piece of software especially for verifying truly available capacity and in some cases it's able to make windows see that capacity and prevent data loss from writing over existing data on accident. i dont have the name on hand but im sure its easy to find with some research. just wanted to drop this if someone has a spare scam thumb drive and has no use for it or is curious about its actual size.
@_oriTech_
@_oriTech_ 7 жыл бұрын
nice! bought one of these crap last year for around 3 bucks and its still a 16gb stick... aaaand usb 3.0.... i mean... 16gigs usb 3.0 for 3 bucks is nice. aaaand i yes, i never trusted that it should be 2tb. good video. best regards from germany
@kelpygsus132
@kelpygsus132 7 жыл бұрын
I would never buy a flash drive on eBay, my luck I would plug it in and it would be a USB killer
@ArtisChronicles
@ArtisChronicles 7 жыл бұрын
Boda yup... too risky now. I can only buy legit ones now and feel safe.
@iHempus
@iHempus 5 жыл бұрын
I transfered music album files and the songs would start disappearing.
@rodx5571
@rodx5571 3 жыл бұрын
I have a 128 gb sdxc in my phone, bought from a reputable retailer, and its a uhs3. yeah, it cost me. I also caught some 256 gb micro flash drives, usb3.1. they were 30$ each on sale. got those at a reputable office supply chain. they are legit. Nice for plug and forget, no need to remove they are almost flush mount.
@saffmichael4369
@saffmichael4369 7 жыл бұрын
....and KZbin is advertising this video with $19.99 2tb flash drives. LOL
@ebmusicman84
@ebmusicman84 7 жыл бұрын
In addition to the scam it is very likely that these could come loaded with some sort of malware. Be VERY careful!
@jozeflenders
@jozeflenders 4 жыл бұрын
I knew it was fake, but I bought one on ebay, then applied for a refund. That costs them money to send to me, and then ebay takes the refund out of their account. Like the craigslist scammers, where they send me a fake check, it takes them time and money, and they don't get anything.
@trevorbyron9448
@trevorbyron9448 Жыл бұрын
Thought there was something fishy bout them 2 TB flash drives...thanks for the warning
@advang4820
@advang4820 4 жыл бұрын
2020 and these things still sold. I feel sorry for those people who don't have much knowledge about tech to know these are fake and decide to purchase them.
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