[Noisebridge-discuss] SD card pricing and fakes in China.

[Christie Dudley]

This reminds me a lot of a discussion I heard over the weekend where people
were purchasing Chinese display fireworks by the case and 1 in 5 was nothing
but sawdust.

Christie
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM, grey <artkiver at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know if you can really call them "faked" the batch that lead to
> this discussion was a legitimate kingston reseller, and kingston did
> eventually take that batch as a return.
>
> Great exposition and research though, particularly if you haven't been to
> China the distinction between the limited fabs who actually make things vs
> the myriad brand names that get slapped on them later is pretty interesting
> and reframes what value a brand name even implies.
>
> I suspect being able to track something to a specific "ghost shift" is
> something pretty much unknowable to an outsider; and is disguised even
> within the fabs as best as possible.  It wouldn't surprise me if kingston
> tried to raise some flags with sandisk/toshiba, but I doubt even they have
> much recourse which is probably why they wanted to reject the return in the
> first place.  In general resellers sell a lot of crap betting that even
> consumers won't bother with a return if a part goes bad when it cost so
> little to begin with.
>
> -grey
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  This article is a discussion of faked SD cards:
>>
>>    http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
>>
>>  This is of general interest as well as of interest to those
>>  who are actively pursuing manufacturing in China.
>>
>> --
>> Jason Dusek
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