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UPDATE: January 16, 2008: I was sent two new Sandisk Cards with a receipt from a retail store in the u.s. apologizing for the incident saying he was unaware of the counterfeit nature of the cards.


ebay seller pig-pony is who sold me the cards (which is pigpony.com and affiliated with campus111.com usa111.com )- i verified with sandisk that the cf cards i purchased from pigpony were counterfeit

here's all the info on my case:

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i bought two sandisk extreme III 4 gb cf compact flash memory cards from ebay seller pig-pony and found them to be counterfeit- checked with sandisk corporation and they agreed and started an investigation. i filed a claim with paypal as well.

they sent me several emails saying they never sent the cards because they never got the money coz the paypal claim was preventing them from getting the money. well first off they first claimed they sent the cards and it might take a while (the tracking # was bogus coz nothing was ever done with that #) then they said they never sent it. well last week i received the cards from china via usps global express and i was asked to sign to prove delivery was made. so i opened the boxes and found them to not look right- the font etc. when i transferred some test images with my sandisk external drive (they cards showed up as toshiba cards) i then called sandisk and gave them the upc code and serial #s (then i noticed they were the same which clinched the verdict for me) and they verified they were counterfeit.


back to more info on the counterfeit cards:

both boxes had the same upc codes and serial numbers:

SDCFX3-4096-902

6 19659 02242 6

they used a different font and boxes and products did not match up as far as placement of info




China address:
Campus111.com
Room 1006, Fangda Building
12 Road, High-Tech Zone South, Nanshan District
Shenzhen Guangdong 518057
China
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