_Allan_
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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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Twats 
My 16GB drive turned out to be 1GB  Ebay again
Good job it only cost the g/f £1.50 (real cost was £23) after she bought a few other drives off other sellers and sold em on. Too late to do anything as feedback was already left. and was a month ago.
I know it's been about for awhile but I'd never heard of it. Just wanted to warn others. The drive reports it's 16GB as normal. It will even 'appear' to write up to 16gb but when you transfer the data off the drive and onto the PC it is corrupt once over 1GB in this case. It uses a compresion technique to fool the PC into it's true size. I have got a prog that has put it back to the 1GB and it's still usable as a normal flash drive but only for 1GB.
Watch out for them.
I just bought a genuine 8GB drive from Amazon 
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
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I hate eBay
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Hoddo
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Registered: 7th Nov 06
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I nearly bought a 2nd Gen Nano off ebay year or so back, but researched the bollocks off it and found it to be a replica.
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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yeh ebay's become the modern dodgy market stalls - although even harder to catch the culprits and get your money back.
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_Allan_
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Just a followup and reference for people. On Ebay Australia has a good guide and some very good/clever fake examples:
http://reviews.ebay.com.au/BEWARE-of-FAKE-1GB-2GB-4GB-8GB-USB-Flash-Drives-on-eBay_W0QQugidZ10000000000706427?ssPageName=BUYGD:CAT:-1:LISTINGS:1
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stubbsy05
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
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Ebay is turning into a right shit at the mo. Fake stuff flying round everywhere!
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