Walmart is Selling Fake External SSDs Now

Walmart.com had a listen for a fake 30 TB SSD for several days, many people wasted their money on it, looks like Walmarts quality control is the same as Wish now.
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[@JakeDaines]

Walmart execs woke up one day and said: "Let's sacrifice our decades of consumer trust by allowing unverified 3rd party sellers on our website for a few more pennies." Damn. In a world of online shopping scams, Walmart was in prime position to be an infallible, online shopping spot where customers knew they couldn't be scammed.

[@0Ciju0]

"decades of consumer trust" at Walmart? Where have you been shopping my guy? Their only business model is undercutting all of the mom and pop shops since they can penetrate the market at a loss for decades. Not a single person expects quality from Walmart LOL

[@commentaccount7880]

@@0Ciju0 how does quality equal consumer trust? It's about reliability, example mcdonalds

[@depth386]

@@0Ciju0 Maybe “trust” isn’t quite the word, but he has a point about an expectation of not encountering a blatant scam.

[@tonyzone8999]

Not any more

[@giantisopod]

It worked for Amazon, so...

[@awndolznmowdlzkwndznwua]

What do you mean the EIGHT tb SSD for 30 dollars is fake??? No way!

[@carpetedrestroom5218]

just wait 10 years

[@OmniDan26]

@our hero Bot

[@morgzana1374]

8tb for 30? Your paying a bit more then we do here in India, just plugged in 70tb ssd into my Xbox

[@Doc_Sans]

Especially when it has 10gb a second! What a great deal

[@qwqmewomeow]

@@morgzana1374 Oh you guys must be still living in medieval ages. I just connected my five-pb ssd bought for fifty bucks to my PC and everything works well except my files keep getting deleted

[@0Ciju0]

Yeah, Walmart is doing what Bestbuy did with their "marketplace". The only thing this proves is thier absolute failure to vet vendors.

[@Shajirr_]

Seems like all of them are following in Amazon's footsteps. Allowing unverified third-party vendors to sell whatever the fuck including fake / harmful products. Gotta follow the most successful business model, right?

[@casperd2100]

Amazon does this as well. Just gotta look for "Sold and shipped by Walmart"

[@AnonsTreasures]

Actually as far as I can remember Walmart has been doing this for a few years now. I don't know much about getting in as a 3rd party seller but as someone who buys and resells a lot of crap there is a ton of stuff on walmart's website that is just a product sold on Alibaba.

[@chrissquid]

@@casperd2100 that is the entire point of amazon though, you go on amazon expecting to buy something from another seller. On walmart you expect to be buying something from walmart themselves and allowing third party sellers is an awful idea

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@chrissquid Agreed, third party on Walmart's website is a horrible idea.

[@pIasma]

walmart, the only place you can get a gallon of soda, a gun, and a fake external ssd all in the same place

[@MentalOutlaw]

Tis the American way

[@meowmrrpnyanya]

@@MentalOutlaw the freedom and mcdonalds way

[@KitOkunari]

just like how the founding fathers of american wanted

[@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit]

Yeah Yeah Yeah...I'm tryna enjoy my cool ranch Doringos and shoot pigeons with new .37 revolver..

[@jakegarrett8109]

This is news to me, what brand sells their soda in a gallon jug? I need this!

[@calciumsigma175]

I just don't understand how these ""marketplaces"" are able to get away with selling this shit on their sites. I get that "they aren't the ones selling this", but it's still being sold on their website, and they are profiting off of it. The fact that this is legal is astounding.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

It shouldn't be but it is, money talks

[@The_10th_Man]

Walmart is shit

[@wrongthinker843]

It's not actually legal. But good luck taking Walmart to court.

[@miscellaneousproductions]

How do you know it's legal? Sounds like you're assuming because no litigation occurred that it must be legal. Why don't you buy one and then sue them pro se?

[@MattExzy]

It's the same reason Facebook keeps posting crypto scam ads on their site. Money. I guess these companies took note of how many people were buying these fake drives from other sources and wanted in on the act. Someone physically had to list these, there surely would've been a thought process behind it.

[@ineedmymodfixed]

I found an SD card on amazon for my drone. It wasn't a crazy deal, but it was like a "256GB" card for like $22 or something (versus $40-50). I did a quick glance and saw 4/5 stars so I bought it not thinking otherwise. Plugged it into my drone and it kept erroring out. These people will scam you over anything. Anything they can profit off of, after the amazon cut, they will scam you over.

[@ThatLoudCockatoo]

I check every micro SD I get off Amazoon. Every one if them gets benchmarked right out of the packaging. You get burned once and you never trust again.

[@Sanrasxz]

That actually isn't an insanely low price either. Micro Center was just selling a SanDisk 256GB SD card for $26.

[@Reth_Hard]

I got the same problem about 5 years ago, except I got it at a small computer store for a relatively normal price and the card was a normal capacity. I don't think I used it in my phone but I remember the files were all copying but everything over 512mg was completely unreadable... (It was a 512mb card modified to show 8GB in the OS) What's funny is that I already knew about this scam but I thought it was only when buying from Amazon or Ebay and not from physical stores, but apparently I was wrong!

[@robot538]

'These people' are mostly Chinese bro. Better we call it like it is from now on. Just look at the seller names and you can see straight away that its a Chinese person. 'Joybuy Express' is 100% a chinese seller I can tell you that for sure just by seeing that name.

[@Ay-xq7mj]

@@robot538 Yeah its just like how biggest espionage threat is Chinese and Russians realistically. Same with Americans in China. People like to act like everyone in world is a delicate innocent flower.

[@YevgeniyBoreesov]

And a cherry on top: 4TB version is a whole one cent cheaper than 3TB version, and the same goes for 8TB vs. 6TB!

[@enilenis]

Amazon is still full of fake drives. Almost like they don't care, and they don't always set prices ridiculously low, as a giveaway. You can spend the full amount, and still get one of these items.

[@YouKnowMeDuh]

Amazon is literally full of scams a cheap products. It's literally overpriced Ali Express with the minority being legit sellers that can't even be guaranteed get the top result when you search for them. There are things I need that I just can't get in my city and Amazon fills the void by providing low quality sweatshop sellers with... One-day shipping? What?

[@rootpotato]

I got banned for reviewing these very drives on Amazon UK . . . I get banned and their listings are still full of these drives.

[@swytchblayd]

They *don't* care. They make so much off of kickbacks they literally could not care less if you get scammed. Thankfully its usually very easy to spot scammers from grammar & spelling errors, as well as desperate wording sometimes ("GREAT DEAL!" "LIMITED TIME" etc). Ebay has the same problem but as long as you pay via Paypal its pretty assured that you can get your money back as scammers usually won't respond to return requests and Ebay defaults to buyer's say.

[@katbryce]

@@swytchblayd Not always. Sometimes you will buy a Western Digital or Seagate with a sensible capacity for slightly less than RRP and get scammed with a fake drive.

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

I love some of the product details. "If you need to buy a lot, please contact us to give you one of the best discounts! ! !" "We are Manufacturers!!!!" "It has large compatibillity to compatible for Win Vista/Win 7/Win8/Win 10/MacBook OS Linux" "Please allow slight dimension different manual measurement" Not the worst Chinglish I've ever seen, but still gave me a chuckle, especially the exclamation marks in the first two.

[@logicalfundy]

Now I'm wondering where to get a MacBook OS Linux ;).

[@fishyc43sar]

@@logicalfundy wherever you can get "a large compatibility to compatible for"!!! Easy!!!

[@blynkers1411]

"We speak English... And we delivery!"

[@tacomoti1988]

That's why I get my SSDs only from Taco Bell.

[@amnottabs]

yeah mate, I bought mine from Macca's

[@timbo303official9]

The pcie ssds I got were from taco John's

[@fishyc43sar]

This is why your PC keeps farting

[@youtubeairways8646]

@@amnottabs Aussie?

[@Gatorade69]

@@timbo303official9 I haven't heard that name in years....

[@Carnyzzle]

I don't see why anybody is unable to do something about this shit. The only way I've been able to avoid fake storage listings is on Best Buy, and even that was by filtering to in stock only

[@SchwaAlien]

I worked at a Canadian retail electronics store that was unknowingly selling fake USB2 flash drives that had this behavior. I returned several in a row that were all fake, but they didn’t catch the problem and didn’t even pull it when I reported it up the chain as fake because they wouldn’t properly test the capacity by filling it right up the way I was using it as a sample of hi-res videos to play on newly installed customer TVs to show off the TVs potential vs the usually shite signal they were feeding their TV.

[@swytchblayd]

You don't even need to do that. Any working USB/SD testing program will fill the drive with 1's and 0's while testing. So it knows when the stated capacity is falsified the moment the drive begins to overflow.

[@008kevin]

The sad thing is walmart will not take responsibility for this even in a lawsuit, because its not them selling it even though its on their site

[@freedustin]

Neither would Amazon. Amazon is killing stores, Wal Mart included, so Wal Mart has no choice but to go where the money is. Shady 3rd party sellers? Well, that's what the consumer voted for, they made Ebay and Craigslist successful even though they have all the shade in the world. They get what they deserve. I will shop local TYVM...if I go to Wal Mart I am in and out in about 5 minutes with what I needed, I do not shop around there.

[@maximilian200057]

I'm happy they removed it. At least they listened when people complained.

[@Ph34rNoB33r]

Same with Amazon and other marketplaces. Amazon is pretty generous with returns because they know they are handling a lot of fake items. (This kind of return policy makes it easier for fake customers, though)

[@casualweekday-ytshadowbang2469]

Perhaps Walmart too has a big guy who wipes the slate clean for ten percent.

[@KingStix]

haven't had any good experience with buying from walmart 3rd party sellers, 0 accountability

[@Unknown_Ooh]

This is a third party seller and not the actual Walmart corporation selling these. They are trying to do the same thing as Amazon now. I do believe Walmart should be liable for letting counterfeit items on their platform.

[@rompevuevitos222]

At least ebay(in some countries at least) will keep tabs on the seller and return your money if the product was defective I wonder if Walmart does the same

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

Good ole Walmrat

[@Camoceltic]

Walmart definitely makes it hard to report bad sellers. Products have a report button on their page, but it looks like you have to go out of your way to find the right email address to send complaints to if you want to take down the seller.

[@0mn1P4wn4g3]

Walmart is so stupid these days. They have no hope of competing if all they ever do is take only the absolute worst aspects of online shopping and implement those, make in person shopping a terrible experience, and still manage to have more expensive crap than everyone else.

[@GareWorks]

He mentioned that but also how most people don't notice, because they're just seeing that it's on Walmart's website.

[@theduplicator3270]

Amazon, walmart, and even bestbuy are all really misleading by having 3rd party sellers on their websites to boost online sales slash put the inventory carrying costs onto other vendors. It's pushed me back to buying retail over buying online.

[@tubaeseries5705]

amazon is literally all about sellers selling online, they just take money

[@waltersimmons9512]

You can guess just by look what fake and what legit..if you're smart enough

[@KitOkunari]

the vast majority of the third party sellers on walmart are shady and of low quality

[@7eis]

I kinda expected it to be a 500gb drive with a 'unlimited' cloud storage plan.

[@vladkryptonsalvinorine6715]

To realise the scam, know that the world's highest capacity SSD is Nimbus Data's ExaDrive DC100, with a capacity of a jaw-dropping 100TB. This is a ground-breaking development and it still stands uncontested ; holding the record for three years straight. You will have to pay the trifle of 40,000 dollars for the 100 TB, or 400 dollars per TB. The 50 TB model is more accessible since it is for its part at a price of 12,500 dollars, or 250 dollars per TB :D !

[@TheGodEmperorOfMankind_]

Bruh, 30$ for 30TB, I wish. Got a NAS with 24TB and that baby got pretty costly, should have bought these instead

[@zackr8938]

That reminds me of when my mom bought me an iPud (iPod knock off). It turned out to be a virus ridden device, as Malwarebytes immediately quarantined it. It happened so fast, it was almost like the computer could smell it.

[@peternrdstrm]

Please make more meme-related videos like the Miiverse one. Your personality goes insanely well with modern shitpost and memes.

[@Mutual_Information]

Fortunately, I don’t get my hard drives from Walmart

[@dohnpeterson6994]

I only get my drives from best buy or official brand websites

[@jakegarrett8109]

@@dohnpeterson6994 Best Buy has always rip off prices, like $80 HDMI cables, or even drives. Microcenter has the best prices if you're lucky to have one in your state or the next state over (its like Best Buy, but 4x better prices and actually good hardware). Best Buy is the place to go if you want to see 4k monitors hooked up to a 1080p feed... (I'm still amazed they had that, and they had no way to show 4k footage so of course it looked like upscaled garbage compared to 1080p monitors...)

[@rufuspub]

I buy from Crucial directly. Why give Amazon, etc a 30% cut if you can give the manufacturer the full 100%.

[@dohnpeterson6994]

@@jakegarrett8109 thanks for the info ill look for a microcenter. I always thought best buy was good for quality control on things like drives. The last thing I need are my 10TB of data to disappear from some ass scammer.

[@jakegarrett8109]

@@dohnpeterson6994 Yeah them and Newegg are pretty good (Newegg if you need to ship it to your house). Newegg is pretty technical audience so a lot of their reviews have benchmark data and speeds/latency results for the drives, and they seem to be pretty much inline with advertised specs the company puts on it so they are where I got my last SSD. Also their spec page is very nice and consistent for all product types making it easy to compare drives. They also don't remove negative reviews either (I know, I have a delightful one where a cheap power supply fried my other SSD and like $500 in electrical parts half a decade ago, that steller review is still on there, haha!), so good company that lets real feedback, and they are pretty good about making things right and easy RMAs if something does happen. I look for who has the best sales (microcenter is extremely competitive on some sales if you're not in a rush and can wait around a month if you're on a budget), but Newegg does too, both are pretty good and my go-to choices for anything tech related. Basically like a kid in a candy store, except with Nerd stuff, haha!

[@rufuspub]

I feel for something similar on FB. Used laptop for $99. It was good enough of an ad to look like a legit liquidation business. I report the ads anytime I see them as they keep popping up under different names. I even filed a scam alert with Paypal and their investigation could not detect the deal as a scam.

[@thedopplereffect00]

As long as Facebook does the FBI's bidding, they will never be prosecuted.

[@istyleonu]

You sent money to some random over the internet because they had a legit looking post. You deserved to get scammed.

[@FusionDeveloper]

Facebook promotes scammers

[@dogeftw5491]

technically the max storage similar for that size is 8tb, and the price is probably close to 1k

[@jannikheidemann3805]

I mean volume wise you could fit 30 microSD cards into a case that size. Would be a cooling issue I think.

[@nulious]

Kyoxia sells 30TB ssds but they are ~$5000

[@francescocastaldo7469]

Yeah he said that already

[@tbuk8350]

@@nulious Yeah, those are top-of-the-line nvme drives meant for datacenter applications, they aren't intended to get anywhere close to consumers, and won't interface with consumer hardware.

[@mr.gamevideos7477]

@@tbuk8350 They can easily interface with consumer hardware. Some HEDT mainboards provide sff-8643 ports for that and there are u.2 to m.2 adapters.

[@underfasten]

This seems like a good deal. As soon as I finish changing the blinker fluid in my computer, I'm putting one of these in.

[@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit]

I'm getting one too. You should get the unlimited blinker fluid module from the same seller. Works great, haven't missed a turn yet.

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit Since you seem to be cultured, how do you get your PC to turn on after applying the fluid?

[@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit]

@@rompevuevitos222 You are correct sir, I also enjoy fine art. The fluid simply recirculates, goes through a small koi pond, and back through the hard drive. The "Turn on at your own risk" button is a sealed unit, so its fluid-proof.

[@mahirdeth]

yeah i bought a supercharger kit from Walmart for my computer it makes 100 more fps in super Tux cart

[@oldmanonyoutube]

There are "30TB" drives for $35 on Amazon, they are also fake of course. You can pick almost any size and there will be a corresponding size fake in the listing.

[@samvimes9510]

"Wall-mart-ee-ans" doesn't really roll of the tongue. Walmartians (as in martians) would be more fitting, since their kind is already so alien.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

They also thought an air mattress with a blower to inflate it, but the blower was using what seems like USB-C to charge up the batteries. They didn't include a charger with in the package so people have to use what chargers they already have, which often doesn't work, because the USB circuit isn't properly implemented. It doesn't even conform to the most basic standards for USB-C! It would take them two resistors to comply with the most basic standard for dumb devices, but no they rather save 5ct on a fΩq¡ng pair of bog standard resistors! Glad Wallmart failed to take foothold in Europe.

[@Kandralla]

I see you missed the point of Louis' video. That's not a Walmart problem, that's an everyone problem. The Nintendo switch is non compliant in a way that literally destroys power supplies if you try to connect them to the dock. You have this problem in Europe even without Walmart to bash for it.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

@@Kandralla That's what I got from Louis' video too. Still Walmart is not in the clear selling crap. I don't expect Walmart to be different than any other shotty big company eg. Nintendo. I'm not delusional. But I can give them crap for it anyways.

[@nm__]

I can't wait for 15 dollar kali linux usbs

[@samiraperi467]

2:50 I'd say that's somewhat scammy too. "4-bit MLC" is commonly known as QLC, which is worse than MLC in basically every way except *maybe* price. It's slower and will wear out faster. (Granted, an 8TB drive probably has a lifetime write rating of 1.6PB, so it's unlikely to fail and that's a SATA drive so you won't notice the worse performance as much...)

[@brainletmong6302]

QLC isn't that bad. Tech still needs more time to mature but given that you're supposed to use them in a tiered storage setting, they do their job pretty well. Right tool for the job and all that.

[@RmFrZQ]

@@brainletmong6302 if QLC drives used in tiered storage, what purpose they will serve and what kind of data should be stored on them? They don't fit for cache or performance tier, because they are too slow and too low durability. They don't fit for "hot" storage data, for the same reasons. They could fit for "cold" storage data, such as years old backups, which probably already high in volume and you don't need performance, but why use them when you can get more cost effective HDDs for that? Also, a data recovery from SSDs is next to impossible sometimes, compared to HDDs. IMO, QLC drives were made to scam consumers who don't know any better. Enterprise sector will always use SLC (1-bit) and MLC (2-bit) SSDs only.

[@mk72v2oq]

​@@RmFrZQ HDDs became very unreliable nowdays, and very sensitive even to the smallest mechanical influence. Also fast ones are very noisy. And "more reliable" server ones is more expensive than SSDs anyway (which is kinda ridiculous). So I'd prefer to use any SSD, even QLC ones.

[@p5eudo883]

@@brainletmong6302 Oh it absolutely is that bad. I have a Samsung QVO drive, and any sustained writes are absolutely abysmally slow. Couple that with shorter lifespan, and you've got some hot trash.

[@BeatsByYari]

I got an 860 QVO for €60, it’s pretty nice for a downloads/junk drive but any writes to it are pretty abysmal

[@codelockd0wn]

Walmarts website is just like Amazon or Ebay - it's open to more sellers than just Walmart. It's a shame, it's almost like Walmart setup the site to make it really easy to glance over who is actually selling it.

[@ryannicholl8661]

Selling fake hard drives or batteries should result in a 30 year imprisonment when convicted.

[@swytchblayd]

Good luck finding & convicting the Chinese sellers actually making the "drives".

[@johndank2209]

That's the same as murder, bruh

[@ryannicholl8661]

@@johndank2209 Intentional murder is usually a life sentence.

[@Vysair]

Good luck finding legit Eneloop

[@InsaneFirebat]

Certainly not the first time they've been in the news for scams and price gouging on their marketplace

[@zackakai5173]

None of the big corporate retailers are winning any awards for putting their customers over their shareholders, but Walmart has been losing by a country mile for decades. I don't shop there unless I absolutely *need* something right now and it's the only place nearby that has it.

[@TiroDvD]

I'm old enough to remember when Walmart was good and not pure evil. Then Sam Walton died and it turned to crap. I'm also old enough to see Google enter beta. Leave beta. And then turn to crap when the original founders retired.

[@klwthe3rd]

Classic Walmart crap being pushed on their website. Kenny is right, the average customer has NO CLUE that there isn't even a 30 TB SSD available for customer purchase at the moment. 8TB is the limit that i've seen too. People are so freaking ignorant!

[@neoqwerty]

Honestly, WHO even needs more than 2TB? WHO THE HECK IS THINKING THEY NEED 30,000 GB OF SPACE?????? (and I'm saying this as someone who managed to mostly fill his 2TB drive because of japan-only games, anime, and backing up speedruns and modding tools and decomp stuff.)

[@astracrits4633]

@@neoqwerty Archivists might. If you want to hold onto things like romsets for anything past the PS1 era, you're gonna need an awful lot of storage space. ...But then again, if you're an archivist, chances are you already know 30TB drives aren't really on the market just yet.

[@nosuma6418]

There is a 30TB SSD that you can buy. It is an enterprise ssd though and cost around 10k$ a pop if i am not mistaken.

[@klwthe3rd]

@@neoqwerty I have a 4TB drive in my gaming laptop. People do use large amounts of memory like that but the 30TB should have been a tip off.

[@klwthe3rd]

@@nosuma6418 Well that's hardly something and average person would buy now would they?

[@TadanoHitohito]

How do people fall for this? I bought a 1TB USB SSD for ~$100 last week and I still thought it was sketchy.

[@markm0000]

You should still check and see if it’s legit.

[@zariaeda007]

There are people out there who think that if something is sold on a legit website then it's ok and not counterfeit. I have to tell my parents all the time to verify that the item they are looking at is sold through the actual website and not a third party site.

[@TadanoHitohito]

@@markm0000 it's legit, I've been using it to store games on my Deck for a bit now

[@markm0000]

@@TadanoHitohito ok

[@nox5555]

@@TadanoHitohito you are just getting old.. i recently needed a 64gb stick to send some data via mail (dont ask why) and i was shocked to get one for under 10€. Prices are moving down so fast that even legit offers look sketchy,

[@pumpkinpie7254]

I'd never purchase anything electronics related ever, even in person in their store ... I've only purchased Onn bluetooth speaker from the actual store and two years later it's holding up pretty savage ... Thanks for posting this video 👍

[@JamesMiller-ex3ff]

How are you writing this message?

[@VengeanceLN]

Onn is a pretty shit brand. At least when it comes to "gaming" equipment such as keyboards, monitors, etc

[@midnightlycanfox6280]

"I'll never buy electronics from them, the one thing I did buy was banger tho." Makes a lot of sense there.

[@U.S.A.]

I have a lot of fake pendrives and micro SD cards, they have real capacity up to 64GB. Counterfeiters started to use 64GB flash memories around a year ago, until that most of them used 32GB ones.

[@VengeanceLN]

Same, I format it and cut it back down via disk management leaving the the rest of the false GB just unallocated

[@U.S.A.]

@@VengeanceLN That's a good solution, but I also have cards which has only a few KB corrupted bits in the middle of the disk, there is a program called F3, it's based on H2testw, but F3 actually shows you which .h2w file is corrupted, so you run the test, it shows which file is corrupted, then you delete te non corrupted files and if you mark the corrupted file as a hidden system file, then it won't show up in windows file explorer and you won't be able to write data onto the corrupted area. Do you know a better solution for such a problem?

[@Salty_Web]

Bonus ram?????

[@marcogenovesi8570]

It's a free download

[@furycd001]

There are tons of drives like these all over the internet right now & it's such a huge problem. I had a friend who bought a 2TB unbranded SSD from ebay & ended up getting a SD to USB pcb that was 2, 1G SD cards, instead of the advertised 2TB SSD....

[@Olivia-W]

Don't buy unbranded drives? I've been buying used SSDs for quite a while, and so far so good.

[@sethbingo]

mmmm yes 30TB ssd for $39. Less than $2 per Terabyte!

[@dherokbattleborn]

Really wish there wasn’t so many trash humans doing shit like this. Companies should be held accountable for enabling it. This is what you expect from some shady website not Walmart

[@JimboJuice]

yeah, like amazon

[@hgbugalou]

Blame China. It's all part of doing business there and not really frowned upon like it is here.

[@JimboJuice]

@@hgbugalou American companies do it too, only difference is that you'd pay $100 for a fake 30TB anerican SSD

[@hgbugalou]

@@JimboJuice Show me proof of an American made drive thats doing this. If you mean American resellers, if they are doing it, its on accident because they were tricked too (like is the situation here in the video).

[@JimboJuice]

@@hgbugalou How innocent.

[@baltazard133T]

I just went to my local Walmart went to the clearance section and found a PNY 500gb cs900 SSD for $22 and then right next to it found a SanDisk extreme portable SSD 500 GB for $18. Moral of the story kids check your Walmart clearance aisles there are all kinds of portable hard drives and other juicy electronics for 50% 60% up to 90% off retail price!!

[@CNWPlayer]

Yay! I can’t wait to get scammed thinking that I was buying a 30TB HDD and I got a 2TB SSD!

[@thefirehawk1495]

I find it fantastic that they choose to lie so blatantly. They could say 4TB, or 1TB, but no, 30TB, holy shit.

[@deraile]

This makes me wonder... Wouldn't this be a great way to use USB Autoplay as an attack vector? I'm sure there are malware filled storage devices on amazon or all these more open marketplaces, but I didn't expect to see scams (such blatant ones, too) operating on Walmart... Until now. I'm just surprised the scamers were content with the "fake" being only the storage capacity, and not trying to also compromise PCs for a botnet or something while their product went this far into someone's house. I may be assuming things though, bear with me im a newb.

[@bartek1887]

I'm pretty sure autoplay is turned off by default nowadays, unless im thinking of something else

[@deraile]

@@bartek1887 True, I believe it is. A lot of people still use outdated/unpatched windows though. I guess that may not be substantial enough? But I still wonder why they would "waste" that opportunity. I mean other than it wasn't their plan to begin with.

[@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit]

@@deraile They're not smart enough. You make a good point, but these guys prolly have the brain of a dog turd.

[@JamesMiller-ex3ff]

@@deraile Do people really still use outdated software?

[@chrissquid]

@@deraile way easier to sell empty husks of plastic for $50 then it is to sell working devices which you attempt to hack someone's device through

[@keatonhatch6213]

You also can’t just look at the amount of 5 stars. I’ve come across multiple Amazon 4-5 star reviews where it appears to have been harvested from other products. For example one I think was something tech related and all the 4-5 star reviews were food related.

[@ComeonWindows]

Bought a real 2 TB external SSD, and I can assure you that it's not only 40 $. It's more like 230 $ for 2 TB of SSD storage and maybe 60 $ for 2 TB of external hard drive storage. Don't fall for these kind of scams people!

[@jakegarrett8109]

You can make one for about $150. Its currently $60 for 1 TB SSD, so 2 TB we'll assume is $120, then I've seen 2.5" external SSD holder to USB for $10, but I went for an NVME to USB C and that one was like $20 or $25 for the portable enclosure (my 2 TB NVME drive was about $150, though I'm not using it externally so I wasn't looking to save costs as much since its my operating system and games), so somewhere between $130 on the low end and $175 on the high performance end.

[@ComeonWindows]

@@jakegarrett8109 Forgot to mention that my currency is in CAN $ lol

[@jakegarrett8109]

@@ComeonWindows Oh, yeah that's about right then. The US $ is tanking at a fast enough rate we might just join you here soon!

[@filiperodrigues97]

0:15 Ah yes, everything I need now is a non-Euclidean pool from Wish to relax inside a wormhole

[@generalralph6291]

Somewhere there’s a warehouse full of these. Someone purchased all those defective MicroSDs at a steep discount. Notice there’s no branding.

[@RoastCDuck]

It's not fake it is indeed solid.

[@maiyannah]

Any site that does the Amazon thing of allowing unvetted and unverified sellers on their website is going to end up with this, but they also don't care so long as they're making money.

[@jasohavents]

This probably isn't Walmart being belligerent. But we absolutely do need to rub it in their face until they stop it and let everyone know not to waste their money.

[@sirdovermeyer]

First of all... Jack. That Walmart belt buckle is a must have item!

[@stevejohnson1321]

You can get a 256 hyundai drive from walmart for around $35. They work -- I own one. I would buy only direct from walmart -- not marketplace.

[@coolmedina117]

its crazy how they just let it fly because its a "third party" seller

[@6rain875]

Yeah but not really. I’ve been doing order fulfillment for Walmart as a part time job while I’m in uni, and some of the shit corporate lets slide is plain appalling. Needless to say I am seeking employment elsewhere

[@rubixtheslime]

@@6rain875 I've been in that situation much longer than I wish I was. Best of luck to you. Make sure to check if your university is hiring

[@ADreamingTraveler]

Walmart started allowing 3rd party sellers on their site to compete with Amazon but honestly it just ends up causing more issues like this and a worse experience.

[@tjmbv8680]

You know I get why these are on ebay where everything is sold by smaller sellers but you would really think Walmart of all places would vet the sellers they have on there website better.

[@FMeister94]

In terms of the best advise for people who are clueless are buy from a reputable company in a brick and mortar store but the fact that Walmart which has that assurance as a brick and mortar even if it aint sold by them makes it all the more confusing for untech savvy customers.

[@rompevuevitos222]

I am sure this will bring up some conversations like "I bought one of those SSDs and it was pretty bad" without realizing they didn't actually bought one

[@FestusOmega]

Oh shit. If this keeps up, Walmart's quality control could become almost as bad as Amazon's.

[@randgrithr7387]

I'm a truck driver. Can y'all just stop buying from Walmart? I hate delivering to them.

[@hkoizumi3134]

I work in a semi-conductor industry as one of the engineers who research and design flash memory. Seeing these scams really does amuses me to no end. I'd like to know what type of process they have that can reduce cost for manufacturing and what type of method they used overcome the challenges we have.

[@Chasing-the-outdoors]

Same as Amazon. But consumers shopping for these have no clue what the normal cost is. Didn’t enjoy the insulting of Walmart shoppers, many people go there because they can’t afford real deals.

[@craigjoe8691]

Set up drop shipping through Amazon and sold a ton.

[@TheTundraTerror]

How hard is it to remember that "if it's too good to be true, it usually is"?

[@NijiDash]

Thing is, some people don't even know it's too good to be true because they may not even know how large 30TB is in the first place. Some people just copy a few files to it and put it out two years later when they need to back up stuff before letting someone reinstall Windows, only to find out most of their files have effectively been put into a black hole after installation. It's pretty sad, but I can easily see less tech-savvy people fall for this (especially when it looks like it's sold by a big store like Walmart, even though it's not directly sold by them).

[@jakegarrett8109]

Most consumers don't even know what BIOS modding is, or what overclocking is. You'll have someone like my mom asking "honey, why do you need 4 GPUs with all these water hoses in your computer?" and my dad asking why my computer has a cool down phase before startup process (wait until -35c before booting system, some processors wait until -50c or colder to avoid boot but around 0c). They just want to check their emails, not have fun with slightly more exotic systems. They don't want to read the asphyxiation warnings on a liquid nitrogen tank either, they just want to "use a computer" (one does not simply "use a computer" in my house, superuser key + terminal + "exit"!!!!)

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

saw this article on my google feed yesterday morning at work and i was like wtf really ...

[@PainweedingPills]

Liked for Happy Wheels in the thumbnail. I miss the old times.

[@BlackOps78321]

The thing is USB storage is sometimes basically SSD in nature but yeah you aren't going to get any better bandwidth when it's hooked up externally. SSD is just like something that was years behind from happening tbh when it comes to making a better port for flash storage than the usual, and just finding how it's extremely faster than SATAII or the usual standard at the time. You're basically buying a usb storage device if anything and maybe hope to run that on USB3.0 or higher if you store anything that requires slower loading off of it.

[@ibanez7736]

that's messed up those that walmart would even allow this on their site, it's a straight up lie. I'll think twice before buying tech from there.

[@JosephKintzeleIV]

It's Walmart what do you expect they lie just about everything and is only in it for the profit. They have no issues treating the people who work for them like garbage so it's no surprise they will sell garbage 😂.

[@CancermanPL]

The most popular scam on Wish and other scam apps/websites is selling the case only and putting random numbers like 10 TB that it MAY fit in lol. My flatmate bought 2 TB usb drive once and it was 2 TB indeed, but the transfer speed was between 1-2 mb/s

[@Elvisdukebox]

Hi guys yes Moxton's in the UK are doing the same DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tonykeltsflorida]

Yes, Walmart is now like eBay. You have to beware of certain products.

[@ashishpatel350]

the people that bought these probably bought those extended warranties on their cars lol

[@noviciernocive7967]

Interviewer: why have you leave scammers in the Walmart page? Walmart: money!

[@EvilNeonETC]

A real savvy lawyer could sue for false advertising and make a quick buck here.

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

Those pictures of average Walmart shoppers is so good

[@durden91tyler]

It fucking kills me you don't have more subscribers. Thanks for all your effort ❤️

[@M1America]

30TB hahahaha. That's insane that they are lying by that much. And I thought the 18650 battery market had really large lie margin.

[@ghostofdre]

Thanks, bought 10. Now to make a black box and backup the internet.

[@tuxlinux]

Joybuy, also known as JD, is a big competitor to Alibaba. It's partially owned by Walmart themselves. My guess is that Walmart started offering products sold by Joybuy to increase their online presence.

[@titanium_rocket1505]

I'm absolutely losing it at the Effective Shopper from Happy Wheels in the thumbnail

[@foxdata]

Technically it’s not Walmart selling them (you mentioned this), but rather a third party seller. Amazon has the same thing (including fake SSDs)

[@marcogenovesi8570]

yes but we both know how this is disingenuous on their part (same as with Amazon)

[@robot538]

Chinese sellers are rampant on Amazon.

[@stevengill1736]

At least Amazon refunds you, but it's made me leery of buying anything from them. Not that they care...

[@gabrielferreira7550]

Marketplaces are the worst things to ever happen to online stores.

[@InternetSlavicMan]

not gonna lie, that ramen outfit at about 3:57 is pretty cool

[@ISUCKBALLS]

Aw hell naw At least they dont have any viruses, Right?

[@UkrainiansWillLose]

I remember finding Windows XP laptops on Walmart’s webpage in like.. 2014? Wild stuff man

[@rodiculous9464]

Man this blackpilled me even harder on online reviews

[@tailsorange2872]

If it seems too good to be true.... It's probably too good to be true.

[@mrskibum885]

hey not sure if you caught this or was already public knowledge but the shipping estimate shows your current zip code, which while is probably not the worst thing, it's something to be careful of

[@doingbettereveryday]

It's funny because this is going to be possible in a few decades. Like how floppy disks used to be expensive. 30TB SSD drives will be cheap one day too.

[@grottake]

Buying pc components from walmart is the greatest high Ive ever felt from a hail mary purchase

[@chrisjohn2853]

Literally thank you was considering this on amazon

[@RitosM]

What a coincidence, I was looking at external SSDs yesterday and saw those exact ones on Amazon as well

[@ianault8599]

A Kioxia CM6 30.72TB 2.5" SSD sells for around $8,000 USD

[@SpriteXP404]

This is why I shop in my local Walmart and not buy anything form online stores

[@tumwineelijahbob9220]

OMG I found exactly what u said would be there. thanks for the eye opening

[@nokichou8059]

WOW, they even inserted 2 SD cards instead of just 1. That's quality! Because you only need 1 to make the scam work.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

I wrote posts about these months ago. 16TB "Thumb drives" for $100 Responders argued that they were real.