Counterfeit memory cards flooded Shopee: 1TB for only 100,000 VND, still many people rated 5 *

1TB memory card only 100,000 VND on Shopee

On Shopee, it is not difficult for users to find amazingly cheap memory cards. With just a simple search syntax, we can find 1TB memory cards from many famous manufacturers such as Samsung, SanDisk, Kingston, HP, Huawei for only … 100,000 VND.

1TB memory cards from many reputable manufacturers cost only 100,000 VND on Shopee.

Currently, the market price of a 1TB memory card is up to 5 million. So at 50 times cheaper, are the memory cards on Shopee a “bargain of the century”?

Poor quality of fake goods, the actual capacity is only a few dozen GB

The short answer is no. These 256GB, 512GB or 1TB memory cards are all knockoffs, have a much lower actual capacity and are fake capacity in order to deceive buyers.

Mr. Vu (living in Hanoi) once accidentally Shopee surfed to find a 256GB Samsung memory card for VND 99,000. Because this memory card is listed in Shopee’s Flash Sale column and only products that have been approved by Shopee appear in this section, Mr. Vu still decided to buy despite the risk.

A 256GB Samsung memory card was Shopee Flash sale, attracting dozens of purchases in less than 2 hours.

After a few days of waiting, Mr. Vu received his memory card. Both computers and phones recognize this memory card as 250GB.

The packaging of a Samsung 256GB memory card

The computer recognizes this memory card as 250GB.

However, this memory card only receives about 25-30GB of data. All data after the copy exceeds this threshold will be corrupt (corrupt) and can not be used. This is a common symptom of fake memory cards when data is overflowed from the actual capacity.

The data (specifically, the RAR file) is corrupted after copying to the memory card (photo: NEXTGEN).

In addition, there are some indications that this is a fake product. Right from the packaging, users can find a few spelling mistakes, in the case of this memory card “Faster” is misspelled “Fastar”. Misspellings are common on Chinese counterfeit products.

Misspellings on the memory card packaging.

In addition, the surface material of this memory card as well as the memory card jacket that comes with it is also an interesting detail. The details printed are not sharp, when users look under the light, they can see the patchy marks on the surface.

Textured paint is covered on the surface of the memory card.

The included memory card jacket is also painted with lava paint with different levels of lightness.

Counterfeit goods are still appreciated on Shopee

Despite being a fake, these memory cards still receive high ratings on Shopee. At the time of writing, the Samsung 256GB memory card above received a rating of 4.4 / 5 *, including a lot of praising 5 * reviews.

Counterfeit, but these memory cards are still highly appreciated on Shopee.

Currently can not verify that these are real reviews from people who bought the product, or are fake reviews, manipulated by the shop owner to “lure” others to buy. However, an assumption is that after receiving the goods, the user only checks the capacity, when they see enough 256GB / 512GB / 1TB … immediately assess 5 *, while there has not been a long use process long to know that this is essentially virtual capacity.

Buy memory card, how to avoid fake goods?

Shopee, like many other ecommerce sites, is joined by various sellers. And in any market, too, besides genuine sellers, there will be those who take advantage of the ignorance of users to consume fake and fake products. What buyers need is to equip themselves with the knowledge of the product so that they can make the right decision.

In the case of counterfeit memory cards on Shopee, one thing we have in common is that all of these products come from sellers from China. Users can distinguish a seller from inside or outside the country by the small words under the seller’s name, as well as the location of the seller’s warehouse.

These memory cards are all from China.

Obviously, it is impossible to attribute to all overseas memory card sellers selling fake products. However, when considering the memory card is a relatively long warranty (usually 3 years), the purchase of foreign units and the loss of such great after-sales benefits. is totally unworthy. Therefore, users should choose the local stores.

More importantly, users need to understand the true value of a product. A 256GB / 512GB / 1TB memory card costs up to several million dong, and no matter how strong the “sale” is, it cannot cost 100,000 dong.

No matter how strong the sale, a 256GB, 512GB or 1TB memory card will never cost VND 100,000.

If users need to verify that a memory card is genuine or fake, there are now tools like H2testw or FakeFlashTest that allow them to do this. Or, users can check for themselves by copying a large amount of data, exceeding the threshold of current memory cards (9GB / 17GB / 33GB …). If at some point the data suddenly fails, there’s a good chance that the memory card is a fake.

FakeFlashTest is a tool that helps users check whether their memory card is fake or not.

Naturally, users can avoid all the above troubles by choosing reputable sales addresses.