In trying to save a few bucks, I went cheap on a 4gb Sandisk CF card,
and a battery for my DSLR. Even if the vendor is from North America,
which mine was, don't buy cards or batteries on-line from anyone other
than a reputable dealer. Both have crapped out on me.
Any number of you can line up and take turns swatting me in the head;
I *know* I should have known better.
$1,700 wedding, $1,800 data recovery bill to get all the formals
yanked off the piece of sh*t card that caused my D30 to display "CF
CARD ERROR".
On Aug 15, 7:56 pm, james@jamesphotography_nospam.ca wrote:
> In trying to save a few bucks, I went cheap on a 4gb Sandisk CF card,
> and a battery for my DSLR. Even if the vendor is from North America,
> which mine was, don't buy cards or batteries on-line from anyone other
> than a reputable dealer. Both have crapped out on me.
>
> Any number of you can line up and take turns swatting me in the head;
> I *know* I should have known better.
>
> $1,700 wedding, $1,800 data recovery bill to get all the formals
> yanked off the piece of sh*t card that caused my D30 to display "CF
> CARD ERROR".
>
> You can line up now...
>
> jim
A lot of companies are now warning that internet supplied products are
fakes anyway. If the World's disgusting appetite for cheap beyond
cheap suddenly dried up, so would China's economy.
james@jamesphotography_nospam.ca wrote:
> In trying to save a few bucks, I went cheap on a 4gb Sandisk CF card,
> and a battery for my DSLR. Even if the vendor is from North America,
> which mine was, don't buy cards or batteries on-line from anyone other
> than a reputable dealer. Both have crapped out on me.
>
> Any number of you can line up and take turns swatting me in the head;
> I *know* I should have known better.
>
> $1,700 wedding, $1,800 data recovery bill to get all the formals
> yanked off the piece of sh*t card that caused my D30 to display "CF
> CARD ERROR".
>
> You can line up now...
>
> jim
I don't buy from ebay unless the item wasn't available elsewhere, it's
too much of a hassle bidding and all the other nonsense.
However, if in fact your purchase was a genuine Sandisk card, something
someone is questioning, then the problem was with Sandisk and I would
have contacted them first.
Dave Cohen
On Aug 15, 9:27 pm, Dave Cohen <u...@example.net> wrote:
> james@jamesphotography_nospam.ca wrote:
> > In trying to save a few bucks, I went cheap on a 4gb Sandisk CF card,
> > and a battery for my DSLR. Even if the vendor is from North America,
> > which mine was, don't buy cards or batteries on-line from anyone other
> > than a reputable dealer. Both have crapped out on me.
>
> > Any number of you can line up and take turns swatting me in the head;
> > I *know* I should have known better.
>
> > $1,700 wedding, $1,800 data recovery bill to get all the formals
> > yanked off the piece of sh*t card that caused my D30 to display "CF
> > CARD ERROR".
>
> > You can line up now...
>
> > jim
>
> I don't buy from ebay unless the item wasn't available elsewhere, it's
> too much of a hassle bidding and all the other nonsense.
> However, if in fact your purchase was a genuine Sandisk card, something
> someone is questioning, then the problem was with Sandisk and I would
> have contacted them first.
> Dave Cohen
I encourage the battery purchases as they are a fraction of the
originals. I have had positive experiences on 3 purchases from
different vendors so far.
I do feel like I am gambling, though. So far I have come out ahead,
even when I bought a 5GB micro drive that did not work in my camera, I
got a refund and was up money, as he asked what I paid to have it
shiped back, and gave me the amount in USD, even though I quoted CAD.
A friend bought a Sandisc extreme III and it turned out to be fake-
(spelling mistakes on the packaging and no serial # on the card). He
got to keep the card and got a 100% refund for reporting the fake, the
vendor was shut down.
Jim- you are professional- You should have bought locally.
E-bay is for people who can take chances in their own lives, you
almost lost fond memories for someone else's-
> In trying to save a few bucks, I went cheap on a 4gb Sandisk CF card,
> and a battery for my DSLR. Even if the vendor is from North America,
> which mine was, don't buy cards or batteries on-line from anyone other
> than a reputable dealer. Both have crapped out on me.
BULL****! First off you bought the wrong card for your camera. You should
only be using Lexar. Research your purchase and only buy factory-sealed
cards from reputable dealers. Maybe you bought a counterfeit card? Check
the lot and serial number on the Sandisk sight. Don't blame eBay for your
lack of common sense.
> Any number of you can line up and take turns swatting me in the head;
> I *know* I should have known better.
Yep! You should have spent the time researching your purchase that you are
wasting here whining.
> $1,700 wedding, $1,800 data recovery bill to get all the formals
> yanked off the piece of sh*t card that caused my D30 to display "CF
> CARD ERROR".
You should have downloaded Sandisk's data recovery utility. I sympathize
for you, but this stupidity had the potential to ruin a customer's once in a
lifetime event because you wanted to save $3.00 on a memory card.
james@jamesphotography_nospam.ca wrote:
> In trying to save a few bucks, I went cheap on a 4gb Sandisk CF card,
> and a battery for my DSLR. Even if the vendor is from North America,
> which mine was, don't buy cards or batteries on-line from anyone other
> than a reputable dealer. Both have crapped out on me.
>
> Any number of you can line up and take turns swatting me in the head;
> I *know* I should have known better.
>
> $1,700 wedding, $1,800 data recovery bill to get all the formals
> yanked off the piece of sh*t card that caused my D30 to display "CF
> CARD ERROR".
>
> You can line up now...
>
>
>
>
>
>
> jim
>
>
>
>
>
Many (most?) of the very cheap 'Sandisk' cards on ebay are fakes.
> In trying to save a few bucks, I went cheap on a 4gb Sandisk CF card,
> and a battery for my DSLR. Even if the vendor is from North America,
> which mine was, don't buy cards or batteries on-line from anyone other
> than a reputable dealer. Both have crapped out on me.
>
> Any number of you can line up and take turns swatting me in the head;
> I *know* I should have known better.
>
> $1,700 wedding, $1,800 data recovery bill to get all the formals
> yanked off the piece of sh*t card that caused my D30 to display "CF
> CARD ERROR".
>
> You can line up now...
>
>
>
Don't try anything professional with a non-professional setup:
Steve Wolfe wrote:
>> Many (most?) of the very cheap 'Sandisk' cards on ebay are fakes.
>>
>> Use Lexar instead.
Not quite sure I follow your logic. Is Lexar harder to fake or they just
haven't got around to it yet. But of course, I fully agree with the rest
of your comment. The joke of all this is when I've checked ebay (never
purchased), there isn't that much of a savings.
Dave Cohen
Bigguy wrote:
> james@jamesphotography_nospam.ca wrote:
>> In trying to save a few bucks, I went cheap on a 4gb Sandisk CF card,
>> and a battery for my DSLR. Even if the vendor is from North America,
>> which mine was, don't buy cards or batteries on-line from anyone other
>> than a reputable dealer. Both have crapped out on me.
>>
>> Any number of you can line up and take turns swatting me in the head;
>> I *know* I should have known better.
>>
>> $1,700 wedding, $1,800 data recovery bill to get all the formals
>> yanked off the piece of sh*t card that caused my D30 to display "CF
>> CARD ERROR".
>>
>> You can line up now...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Many (most?) of the very cheap 'Sandisk' cards on ebay are fakes.
>
> Use Lexar instead.
>
> Guy
I have had excellent service from both Sandisk, and Lexar, but the Lexar
cards seem to hold a few more photos. Not sure why.
Don't buy cheap supplies from eBay 
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