About seven years ago, I purchased a couple of really inexpensive "1 TB" USB thumb drives via AliExpress.
They were well made, externally. And they each reported a capacity of 10^12 bytes.
I used `dd` to write an infinite stream of noise to them. I remember at least one of these failing to write after 128 MB (that's megabytes), the other didn't signal a failure but just wrapped around to the beginning of the volume after its internal flash was filled to (low) capacity.
I asked for a refund via AliExpress, and offered to pay for return shipping (since I was pretty sure they were not real when I purchased them). AliExpress refunded the money very quickly, the whole amount.
Neither vendor took me up on my offer to return the items. Just as well, as the postage would easily have exceeded the amount I paid for these, but I just felt better about the whole circus by making the sincere offer to return. By no means do I consider my choice to make any sort of ethical or economic sense -- they were ripping people off with these products.
I find it remarkable that hundreds (at least) examples of this simple scam are to be found on Amazon in 2022. But as you can probably tell, I am willfully naive about such things.
miomg, that's really funny. I like the name, all lowercase like fgemm (https://www.fgemm.com, coming soon).
Well they're not no-name brands, they have names, and in fact in China miomg will probably have some say in you making false miomg cards, I mean you can't plop down right next door to them and do that. So these names are unknown in the West. But like their mothers know about them, the OP rolled the dice and found out about them that way, with my comment this post will have 1 comment and more people may read it. But they have names, it says their names right on the card, miomg is a name, it's the name of the fastest cards you reviewed.
They're under no obligation of making defective cards. Just because you're exposing yourself to buying bad products does not force them to sell you a bad product. Maybe they did a really good job on it, or may have thought of some way to make it at a really good price, some ingenious thing, a way to salvage surplus chips. They can think, you know.
They might get repeat business, hey. They might make a name for themselves, they just did in a way. Obviously don't have the snazzy PR team thing, like the liasons, the white executive guy (that's a well-dressed Westerner whose job is to be white, in the sense European-descendant-looking because Chinese are white too but don't have eg blue eyes and red hair, and like receive people at the company and be seen being white).
So you know what? Even if this is guerrilla marketing, it is still a form of marketing for miomg, and I accept it as ingenious. And they just picked that crazy a name, miomg, those five specific letters in that specific order, that I buy it. They don't own the dot-com though, or they do, like I own fgemm.com, but they don't have anything on it yet.
They were well made, externally. And they each reported a capacity of 10^12 bytes.
I used `dd` to write an infinite stream of noise to them. I remember at least one of these failing to write after 128 MB (that's megabytes), the other didn't signal a failure but just wrapped around to the beginning of the volume after its internal flash was filled to (low) capacity.
I asked for a refund via AliExpress, and offered to pay for return shipping (since I was pretty sure they were not real when I purchased them). AliExpress refunded the money very quickly, the whole amount.
Neither vendor took me up on my offer to return the items. Just as well, as the postage would easily have exceeded the amount I paid for these, but I just felt better about the whole circus by making the sincere offer to return. By no means do I consider my choice to make any sort of ethical or economic sense -- they were ripping people off with these products.
I find it remarkable that hundreds (at least) examples of this simple scam are to be found on Amazon in 2022. But as you can probably tell, I am willfully naive about such things.