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SD Card deal alert! $78 OFF

Be careful on Ebay. There are some fake MicroSD cards being sold. They will say they are xxgb, but actually only have a small amount of memory.

A cheap price could mean trouble.
 
lexar 32gb cards have very poor performance on mobile devices.
the best bet would be 32gb sandisk class 4 or samsung class10. Both these cards have fast random write speeds which matters in mobile devices.

Secondly more 80-90% cards sold in ebay are fake. u will never be able make it out, unless u contact the original manufacturer
 
These days there's no way you CAN be careful enough with ebay with such things. Stick to Amazon because of their return policy.

On eBay black market items are everywhere and they DO look precisely the same. As a previous poster noted, an SD card can claim XMBps but be substantially lower.

The reviews ---will---not---help---you--- because the consumers are so often fooled that they are willing to give positive reviews.

I discovered this when I bought a large number of Energizer batteries from someone with absolutely stellar reviews. I got them and they looked precisely the same (down to the pixel!!!!) but tested roughly 30% lower on a battery tester and roughly 40% less longevity (a rough feel) in real life usage. So I did some research and discovered that the battery companies are well aware of this can do very little. In fact, black market batteries are a thriving business. And it doesn't end there.

This is true of most rebrandable small items such as batteries, memory, watches (been a thriving industry for decades), etc., etc.
 
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