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I bought myself a 1024GB Huawei SD card for £7.90. When it arrived I immediately noticed problems when trying to use it as additional storage and any files copied over were impossible to open. I ran H2testw to check it over several days. Only 32GB of the advertised storage was legit, the rest just doesn't exists. It took ebay stepping in themselves to get me the refund. The seller wanted me to disable my firewall and disable all security settings to test the card, INSTANT red flag!

I demanded a return label so I could send it back, they claimed to have tested the card and deemed it as OK and fully functional. This is impossible as the card is still sitting right here with me and I haven't been given a return label. Clearly I made a mistake and should have paid more attention to the warning of buying cheap stuff off ebay.
Sorry Linus, I'll do better next time :(
I'll post the details of the H2testw results too so I can see and get tips from you all:

 

Warning: Only 1023981 of 1023983 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
29.2 GByte OK (61356343 sectors)
970.7 GByte DATA LOST (2035756745 sectors)
Details:136 KByte overwritten (272 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
970.7 GByte corrupted (2035756473 sectors)
136 KByte aliased memory (272 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000750726e00
Expected: 0x0000000750726e00
Found: 0xb0f4c113694e0ff4
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 19.8 MByte/s
Reading speed: 2.69 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
 

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I did get my full refund eventually. Just took 3 weeks due to the time limits given for buyers and sellers to settle disputes.

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1 minute ago, Batherington said:

I did get my full refund eventually. Just took 3 weeks due to the time limits given for buyers and sellers to settle disputes.

I just skimmed the post lol?

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1 minute ago, PositiveRaisin2 said:

I just skimmed the post lol?

It's cool. I skim most posts too. :)

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20 minutes ago, Batherington said:

I bought myself a 1024GB Huawei SD card for £7.90.

Come on now.

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7 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Come on now.

^^^

 

@OP - this has been a thing for a while now, just for grins I have to mention - that dude in Kenya will NOT be wiring you that million bro

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When things seem too good to be true, it usually is.

 

And in this case it obviously is.

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It matters that you don't just give up.”

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Well I've learned my lesson and clearly need to pay more attention to the advice given by Linus, his team and the people here on the forums. Thanks everyone :)

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No problem. As others have stated:

If it is too good to be true, it is too good to be true. 

Be sure to @Pickles von Brine if you want me to see your reply!

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