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Cheated on e-bay - microSD card by "Team Group Inc."

I've bought small electronics on e-bay before and had reasonably good experience - no especially bad products, but also no surprisingly good ones - which is ok, it is as expected and I was happy with it - until today. A new microSD card arrived (for my phone) which was branded - and priced - as class 6 (SD "classes" are basically performance indicators in MB/s), but behaves worse than a class 2 card. The packaging (which looks good and solid, but who knows...) says "Team Group Inc." and the e-bay seller is "pc_galaxy".

Keywords: Nonsense, ebay, cheated

Naturally, I'm significantly unhappy. Now I have a choice between this new 16 GB card with performance worse than a class 2 card (somewhere in the range of 1.5 MB/s) or the old, 4 GB card which came with the phone which really is class 2 (and is a bit faster than the declared speed).

The new card looks "solid" though, except for the unknown brand (of which btw I saw several sellers on e-bay), it has the "class 6" marker on the card, apparently works in a compatible way - but is exceptionally slow. Actually, for reads at least, it has "bursty" performance - bursts of relatively high speed followed by pauses. The writes are uniformly slow.

Well, live and learn. I'll post product photos when I get near a better Internet connection.

Posted on 2010-08-03T00:16 by ivoras

#1 Re: Cheated on e-bay - microSD card by "Team Group Inc."

Added on 2010-08-18T21:40 by Mr*Gibson

Maybe it's just misaligned? I don't know, just a thought..

I always expect to get ripped of when buying on eBay (or the swedish eqivalent), but I have so far not had any especially bad experiences, nor any particular good ones either, like you before this.

#2 Re: Cheated on e-bay - microSD card by "Team Group Inc."

Added on 2010-08-18T22:14 by Mr*Gibson

Ignore my previous statement re alignment. You must already have thought about this..

#3 Re: Cheated on e-bay - microSD card by "Team Group Inc."

Added on 2010-08-30T04:12 by Mark

Bought a TeamGroup 16G micro SD card on ebay.  Class 6 but writes at 3.5MB per sec - not even Class 4.

Avoid TeamGroup?

#4 Re: Cheated on e-bay - microSD card by "Team Group Inc."

Added on 2010-09-03T14:35 by

did you not write -ve review for them ?

#5 Re: Cheated on e-bay - microSD card by "Team Group Inc."

Added on 2010-09-03T16:06 by Ivan Voras

Yes, I left a negative feedback on eBay and the seller offered a 50% refund, which brings the price down to what a class 2 card actually costs. It's an interesting business model.

#6 Re: Cheated on e-bay - microSD card by "Team Group Inc."

Added on 2010-10-12T07:11 by Jerks

Was just about to buy one off DealExtreme. Will now avoid, thanks for the heads up

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