Fake Kingston DataTraveler 310 DT310 256 GB usb flash drives are being sold on eBay for less then $25 US. Most are eBay sellers based in Asia. Listings are starting to appear for sellers registered elsewhere. Multiple item listings are frequently used.
Updated 2011-06-17
According to SOSFakeFlash and FakeMemorySentinel, eBay is attempting to remove fraudulent listings for false capacity counterfeit Kingston DataTraveler 310 DT310 256 GB usb flash drives at record speed. In some cases, even traces of eBay seller id’s vanish from the internet.
Dragon Dakel’s team at FakeMemorySentinel report a race against time to prevent evidence from disappearing. This is not new behavior on the part of eBay. The FrankenFlash project is all too familiar with this practice.
As the intensity of the battle to free eBay from fake flash memory products escalates, eBay struggles even harder to obliterate all evidence of wrong doing. TechReporters are mystified at the energy expended. Should they not be investigating greater effort in preventing obvious fake memory listings from being released in the first place?
Kingston DataTraveler 310 DT310/256GB available at under $25 US? Or even $500 US?
The best price is currently from newegg com. Kingston DataTraveler 310 256GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Model DT310/256GB The retail price, $839.99 US.
Fraudulent sellers in Asia for flash memory target buyers who are naive about the real costs of flash memory chips. Every day, thousands become victims, not only on eBay.
According to KittyFireFlash, spokesman for SOSFakeFlash:
We see so many people who continue to fall for unrealistic prices. On eBay, Asian sellers target this buying audience. They are incredibly successful. The key to their success, is the power of using multiple item listings – buy now.
True, with the assistance of victims and members of the project we do shut them down, but not before they have sold hundreds, sometimes thousands. While $19.99 US per unit does not sound like much, it soon adds up.
The damage to brand names such as Kingston and Sony, is terrible. It continues to decrease consumer confidence in their flash memory products. Unfair, actually. Also very undeserved.
At this point we don’t know how we can reach or educate the global public, we continue to try, but few seem to listen or learn, until it is too late.
I personally think it is a global perception so deep routed these days in our subconscious from continuous bombardment in advertisements and commercials promoting “more for less” that is one of the major root causes so many victims are created. It’s a disease. It does not only pertain to flash memory products that are fakes and counterfeits, but just about everything.
We get a lot of email from buyers who are indignant about being cheated. They vent and want to tear the sellers apart, for?
Paying $25 ~ $50 US for a 256GB usb flash drive!
What can we say to them? Most victims in the end become wiser and say “If it is too good to be true, it usually is”. It can be a hard lesson to learn, especially if files were lost.
The only good news for a lot of Kingston fakes is that they are such poor quality from from a flash chip perspective, most fail very early on. Attention is given to making it look like the genuine item, the chips are usually grade D, if even that.
The FlashChipTech released a warning Kingston DT310/256 Counterfeits Sold On eBay!. You will find all recent eBay sellers found on eBay being recorded on that post. It continues to grow.
The most important advice FakeFlashNews has to offer anyone who buys Kingston flash drives on the internet is to verify them. You can find more information on how by reading:
Update 2011-06-16: A lot of DT310 counterfeit victims are searching for information on repairing fake DT310 usb flash drives. You should read: Can You Fix Fake DT310 USB Flash Drives?
This report is an update on the crises for DT310 fakes. The situation continues to escalate for DT310. Buyers continue to be deceived:
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Noel
June 20, 2012
Kingston DT310 256GB selling on Ebay Australia for under $40. I assume thet are fakes and wonder why Ebay still allows them.
GarryTuddenham
January 13, 2012
street vendors in CHINA are also selling fake kingston usb sticks and sd cards.The authorities are aware of this and take no action.
Alex
December 22, 2011
Be warned, more of these counterfeit Kingston DataTraveler 256GB and 128GB USB flash drives are currently being sold by user haorennanzuo123.
Ebay item numbers: 220917956998, 320816652373
Ron C
December 7, 2011
EBAY needs to get its act togethe if we can find them so can they same goes for Paypal
Patrick Paul
October 7, 2011
greedy and stupid people desrve to be scammed
Mitchell
September 19, 2011
It never ceases to amze me how often gullible fools fall for these cheap products without stopping to ask themselves why a high value item is being sold for less than half its value – is our greed really greater than our common sense ???
mikesiegel
September 10, 2011
this is disgusting.Week after week 90% of everything you allow to be posted is counterfeit.
How do you allow this to happen ?
How do you turn a blind eye to this garbage ?
alessandro manigrassi
May 23, 2011
Kingston DataTraveler 310 DT310/256GB Fake USB Flash Drives Flooding
asdf
March 21, 2011
I almost bought it, but thankfully i found this article before that. Thank you guys. Now i know the real price of the quality…
TechReporters
March 15, 2011
Jack, what software?
Kingston USB Flash Drives. How To Check You Have A Genuine One And Not A Counterfeit – Easy Guide. Kingston Technologies Fighting To Protect Consumers And Itself From Counterfeits.
If people validate with Kingston Technologies, they will be able to determine if the product is genuine or not.
jack
March 15, 2011
I was called a scammer after a customer used this software on one of my cards. I bought a bunch of these 16gb cards from staples. This person was having a problem with the card and decided to use this software and the card came back as most likly to be fake. but the card has bad sectors and i know it was a legit card.
So if people are willing to give your money back with no probles dont call them a scammer because scammers hold tight to your money and will not return it!
jack
Lorenzo
March 3, 2011
i got ripped from the same fake, a friend alerted – he does not speak english – and convinced me to buy and share together a certain number of fake DT 310, the bad point is that now he wants to rip someone else ! the fake keys arrived from central china
Virginia
February 17, 2011
Fake USB flash drives on sale on Aliexpress – it did not even last one night, data upload speed initially super slow and now it doesn’t work at all
Please be aware. When you chat to supplier he guarantees its original and that warranty is honoured by Kingston. Now fighting to try get my money back!
Richard Abramson
November 18, 2010
I WAS SCAMMED!
I bought a DT310 265GB USB stick from Ebay from user emerald48s (Daniel Sesay).
The USB key looks like 256GB and is reported as 256GB by Windows, but when I ran software tests (h2testw) it proved that only 3GB was writeable and after that, the files become corrupt. Avoid ebay and user “emerald48s”.
DragonDakel
September 1, 2010
The problem is growing for DT310 on the internet.
KittyFireFlash
August 29, 2010
Kingston Technologies is taking a pounding on counterfeit DT310. At the moment this is the POPULAR usb flash drive model to counterfeit.
Buyers continue to be stung. Data continues to be lost.
We don’t know how to get the message across to buyers. Most are too ill informed about flash memory costs.
Expect victims in the hundreds of thousands. Naive sellers. Naive buyers.
FakeFlashNews, people need to write up their stories and post on the internet. Especially in other languages.
DT310 fakes are now the HOT! item
When will people learn? 😕