Re: Fake memory sticks?
- From: imbsysop <imbsysop@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:54:48 +0200
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:27:26 GMT, "BJ" <bjtexas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>"Siddhartha Jain" <reach.siddhartha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1125435840.780423.290990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi,
>>
>> I bought a 1GB Sony memory stick pro for ~US$88, here in Bombay, for my
>> Sony W7. Later, I complained to the dealer from whom I bought the
>> camera (not the stick) that he was asking too much for the stick (he
>> had quoted $128)!! He said I must've bought one of those fake memory
>> sticks. I was amused since I didn't know there were fake ones around
>> too. I was under the impression that semiconductor fabrication units
>> cost a lot of money making them unaffordable to anyone but large
>> manufacturers (who are very interested in branding them). Ofcourse, I
>> could be wrong. But just in case its a fake, is there anyway to tell a
>> fake memory stick pro from a genuine one?
>>
>> - Siddhartha
>>
>
>Put it in the camera, if it works it is a genuine fake.
>
>Many branded memorys are over priced. Many of the third party
>memories (ones that your dealer will likely call fake) are just as
>good (many made at the same factories as the branded ones).
>Branded memory modules like Sony and Canon are bought from
>a third party and relabeled.
... unless el cheapo 512M (or lower?) were relabeled "1Gb" in some
obscure backyard factory, then you would be buying very expensive
memory sticks ... as said it happened before in "electronics"
industry, a lot of customers are very easy to fool ..
FWIW
.
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