Ebay Sandisk Ultra IIs – Caveat Emptor
July 27th, 2006 at 10:16pm Os
I read on the DSLR Blog about fake Sandisk Ultra II compact flash cards, which are, apparently, rampant on Ebay.
I bought three Ultra IIs off their a few months ago, for a decent price, undercutting other online stores by over £30. Bargain!
Guided by information on this page, I checked them out.
They’re fake.
They’re probably cheap nasty generic compact flash cards with pretty Sandisk logos stuck to them, put in fake packaging. I thought they didn’t feel particularly fast when I was using them, but the type of shooting I do doesn’t normally require fast writes, so I was prepared to put the blame on my 20D and the fact I always use RAW + JPEG, which produces two files per picture taken. They haven't failed in any way, yet, but I will no longer entrust my most important shoots to them.
From now on, I’m spending the extra cash.
Caveat emptor indeed.
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