[Q] How can they sell these this cheap?

illtema

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my experience is that cheap ebay stuff is usually just as good. probably fell off a truck or the seller has some sort of connect. i'd trust it tho
 

billakid

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they probably have like 50 of them so the price is not a issue for them Ebay is generally safe got my droid 2 for 50 bucks
 

daml

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I wouldn't waste my time. These cards are most likely fake. They show up to windows, your phone, or whatever as 32 gb but will really be a lot less. Once at capacity, for example 2gb, extra data becomes corrupted. Having the sandisk logo doesn't mean anything, there is a lot of fakes out there. The general rule is that if somethings too good to be true, it is.

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Zennmaster

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I wouldn't waste my time. These cards are most likely fake. They show up to windows, your phone, or whatever as 32 gb but will really be a lot less. Once at capacity, for example 2gb, extra data becomes corrupted. Having the sandisk logo doesn't mean anything, there is a lot of fakes out there. The general rule is that if somethings too good to be true, it is.
This is very true. The digital camera folks have a lot to say about this. The cards can be formatted way beyond their actual capacity, and then fail dramatically. When they go, they're gone. Here's a couple of articles I found:

http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Fake_Memory_Cards

http://members.shaw.ca/fakesandisk/

I wish you guys the best of luck, but I'd also be real careful about keeping your stuff backed up off-site. I'd sure hate to lose all my nandroids!
 

saps

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So who actually bit the bullet and got a 32GB card. Im needing one pretty bad as Im maxed out on my 16GB. Seems for US domestic you cannot beat about $80
 

neyenlives

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how the hell did you fill up a 16Gb card saps? i have a ton of apps installed, cwm backups, etc......cant imagine putting much more on here unless i just filled it up with pics and video.....and i have 14Gb's free still....!

maybe you should just invest in one of those little micro sd to usb adapters and dump to the pc, or sync more to dropbox?
 

saps

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how the hell did you fill up a 16Gb card saps? i have a ton of apps installed, cwm backups, etc......cant imagine putting much more on here unless i just filled it up with pics and video.....and i have 14Gb's free still....!

maybe you should just invest in one of those little micro sd to usb adapters and dump to the pc, or sync more to dropbox?
Videos. I got a lot of videos.

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