Beware of Fake Kingston Pendrives
March 26, 2010
This happened to one of my friend and all his colleagues in office. One hindi speaking man (their slang indicates that they are somewhere from the Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana area), duped close to 20 professionals. No kidding, it is true.
They sold us 32GB Kingston Traveler pen drive, for just Rs.300/- a piece. He said that he was a driver from Haryana and has some pendrives for sale without bill. He said that Prakash Roadways had bought a containter of electronic goods and he has some of the items given by the marwadi owner which had no bill.
Front view of the fraud pendrives
Some fool in my friend’s office, saw them and confirmed that it could be original and since the driver did not know the actual value of the product he was selling it cheaply for making some money, and the news spread like fire and all the other fools stormed out to get cheated (that includes my friend as well). We infact tried to strike a deal with them for Rs.200/ a piece since we are buying in bulk. They did not agree to it, for them it was selling like hot cakes. We could not believe it and felt something fishy. We immediately send some of them back into the office with the pendrives to check if it worked, our guys smartly formatted it and even copied files into the pendrive and confirmed that it works. All of us were glad to get 32GB for Rs.300/, we all were under the impression that these folks would have flicked a carton of these pendrives from somewhere in the port when the Container shipment arrived and thought that this man did not know the actual value for it. They sold all the pieces, they had something about 50 pieces. That’s quite some money for a one hour business.
A little while later we realized that we were able to only copy a max of 1GB file into the pendrive and as soon as you unplug and plug it back into someother pc, there is only few MBs of the file felt in the drive. A disk dump of ’0′ also did not help, it always showed 32GB when queried through fdisk. The PCB board was definitely not damaged, but yes it just had a 512MB chip.
1) Is Kingston responsible for this?
Absolutely no, there are 1000 fakes in the market and they cannot stop all.
Use the website to know the original and fake products.
2) What can you do?
Every time you buy something, ensure that you buy from a genuine dealer/vendor who can give company ‘warranty’ on the product (not just his verbal one).
3) What else can you do?
Pass on the message to others, so that they atleast don’t get fooled. Lets pray the guy gets caught by the Kerala Police.
Posted Under: CitizenSpeak
LOL funny.. April fool
on March 26th, 2010If you had gone to Delhi recently, you would’ve never bought it. I recently went there and was approached many a time with these pen drive. I knew it was fake and didn’t buy it. To make things worse, they were even selling 512 gb and 256 gb pen drives
on April 1st, 2010