Sold me a fake 1TB SanDisk Extreme Plus micro SD card
UPDATE: since I returned the card I got a genuine one from an official SanDisk seller and the card from this shop was indeed a fake. Packaging, appearance and speed on the genuine card are unmistakable.
UPDATE 2: they reached out to me immediately and took the card back. The refund came in less than 2 days. They said they had no idea the card wasn't genuine. Apparently they got screwed over by someone else. Still not 5 stars since they're still selling the card on their website.
Original review:
Sold me a fake 1TB SanDisk Extreme Plus card. I'm putting 2 stars here for now and will be updating this as things progress.
How do I know it's fake? I have other SanDisk Extreme Ultra U3 V30 cards.
All of them hit at least 85MB/s read and 70MB/s write on my USB 3.1 adapter.
The one they sold me hit only 19MB/s read and 18MB/s write on the exact same adapter, file size and USB port. I compared both side by side and I have no shadow of a doubt that the 1TB one they sold me is a fake. It also came with a FAT32 file system and all SanDisk SDXC cards come with exFAT out of the box.
Afterwards I checked some YouTube videos on how to identify fake cards and the packaging had all the hallmarks of being fake. The card itself also doesn't look like my other SanDisk Extreme Plus cards. The underside is clearly different, serial numbers don't follow the same pattern, the plastic film on the back of the packaging was absent, etc.
The price looked realistic enough (209,00 €) so I didn't suspect it would be a fake. Yet, here we are.
I have requested that they take it back. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here (maybe they also didn't know it was fake?) but I felt I had to post this review before other people bought the card too.
June 26, 2021
Unprompted review