Monday, January 15, 2007

Memory, money gone in a flash

When Christopher Smith bought a flash-memory card on eBay, he had a feeling the price was too good to be true.
He was right.
Smith, a financial adviser at Robert W. Baird & Co., paid $35 for a new card that normally would have cost three times as much.
When the card arrived, it looked like the real deal. It came in a slick package, with a SanDisk-brand label, and it has worked fine in his cell phone and other electronic gadgets.
Too bad the card, like thousands of others sold over the Internet, was a counterfeit.

Read more http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=552298

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