Yet another victim. Wish I had found this forum before I bought the bloody thing, but this was my first MP3/4 so had no idea that this scam was so common. :(

16Gb= 4Gb. :mad:

I'll certainly complain to the Chinese ebay seller, but I don't expect a lot of satisfaction from either him or ebay. After 30 days ebay don't give a shit and it's a no-brainer that the seller doesn't.

Sad to say but, when we buy from unregulated countries like China at below Western prices, we have to accept the risk that we are buying shit.

Would you buy vI@gr@ from them? Bloody sure I wouldn't!

For me, the most annoying thing is that the mpx player disk tool doesn't work so I can fix it. It doesn't recognise the frigging Chinese mp4 and says that I need to connect it. Powerdesk/Windows Explorer recognise it, but the tool doesn't.

Any ideas anyone? Seriously thinking about going back to radio.........or bongo drums.....?

For you to feel better...I bought 2 mp4 16gb and 1 mp5 16 gb and at least the 2 mp4 players are 16gb fake...After adding 2 gb, info starts breaking!
Now I'm testing the mp5 16 gb, to see if it's usable. At least this one has a SD card slot, so it can read maybe 8gb cards.. Player is nice and complete, but has to work!

This is the 16gb 2.8: NEW 16GB MP3 MP4 SD PLAYER 2.8" TFT 2.0MP CAMERA MD2 - eBay (item 390087669333 end time Sep-01-09 20:12:00 PDT)

GOOD LUCK!

This looks pretty similar to the one I bought. The ad for yours (and mine) says it takes up to 2gb sd cards, so I'm not sure that you'll get an 8gb to work. Good luck with that - at least a total of 10gb (the 2 in the device and 8 on a card) would be usable.

The dealer replied to my email, saying that he was cheated by the manufacturer and offered me $8 back. Since I paid £20 (around $33) inc shipping I guess this is likely to be the most I'll get. It's annoying that I can't get the mpx player disk tool to recognise it so it is still telling me that it's got 16gb.

I've paid 32 inc sh&h, and I'mstill trying to have a full refund!

The curious is that I was looking for the memory model info in the HYNIX web site and there's no data on it...

Seems that mine is only a 2gb as well - load on files after about 1.85gb and they go wobbly. The seller has agreed to refund me £8.50 (just under $14) so it has only cost me £11.50 ($18.75) but it's still bloody annoying. Being pragmatic though, chances of getting a full refund from China, even going through ebay and paypal, would be slim.

Looking on the bright side, even a 2gb with 2.8" touch screen and mini sd slot for £11.50 isn't a bad deal. I can live with that. What really pisses me off is that I can't undo the hack so that the bastard reveals what its real capacity is!

As for the memory, I haven't dared to take a screwdriver to it - the bloody thing is causing me enough trouble as it is without my wrecking it! It's not that I'm mean, but if I can't sort it through software and it gets to the soldering iron stage, I'm stuffed. Gotta know your limitations! :)

I bought two MP4 players from different vendors, and both were hacked.

The first was an "8GB" iPod Nano lookalike. It was actually 4G.

I paid $27 (Australian dollars). Not realising it was a scam, I tried mailing it to China but the post office wouldn't take something with a Lithium battery in it by air mail. I contacted the vendor again and came to a compromise, $10 refund.

I didn't realise at the time it was a scam.

$17 was actually a pretty good price for a 4G iPod Nano lookalike. It works great, as long as I don't try to put more than 4G on it. All in all, I'm happy but still have a sour taste from knowing it was a scam.

But when my second one, a "32GB" iPod Touch lookalike arrived and I had the same issue, I got suspicious. A bit of Googling got me to sites like this.

Armed with links which I emailed him, I said I know it was a scam, and I said if I didn't get a $20 refund immediately I'd make trouble for him. I launched a PayPal complaint.

He paid me the $20. I still gave him a bad rating though, stated in the comment that it was a scam, a 4G drive with hacked chip to look like 32G.

Then it died, after only a couple of hours of use it's a brick.

I demanded the other $20 to be repaid. He initially said no, but I pointed out my negative rating and offered to withdraw it if he paid the remaining $20. I also made some scary noises about how I'd managed to get another eBay seller's account banned for a similar scam previously.

He paid me the second $20.

Now I'm hoping to fix it with firmware from this site, as soon as someone replies to my "Chipod Touch" post in the dead players forum.

All's well that ends well, but I'm still mad and have reported him to eBay anyway.

So now the Chinese spammers are on here to flog their shit? You REALLY couldn't make it up!

I totally agree with you. I will be banning that spammer in a few minutes.

that is quite good!!

well , hacked mp4 player is normally , it's impossible to buy a cheaper mp4 with lowest cost .impossile .
the hacked mp4 player it's hard to verify , the merchant use a tool to make it looks like real memory .
so don't believe you could buy a good quality player with lowest price.