He bought a 1TB hard drive from China & when he opened the box he saw….
.... an empty box and 32GB of memory were what came as an order from China!
If you bought a 1TB hard drive from China, and happily opened the new package you just received, and instead of what you expected, you saw something completely different, how would you really feel? Definitely not nice! The same happened to kingruudz, a redditor who recounts his adventure and the mockery he received from a Chinese company, which sent him a 32GB hard drive instead of the 1TB he had ordered (and paid for, of course!).
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kingruudz opened the box and found the inside of a 1TB HD that looked like this:
As you can see in the picture, the company in question “cleverly” included two metal pieces in the packaging to give the impression that a real 1TB hard drive is actually included. !!!! We are talking about a real joke, not just a mistake!!
kingruudz's Reddit thread was literally filled with comments and replies from other Redditors, who recounted their own stories of being scammed by similar Chinese stores. Another user, turbotails, pointed out another scam from China.
You can read their messages exactly as they were posted:
[alert size=”alert-block” variation=”alert-success”][–]turbotails23 459 points 1 day ago[/alert]
[alert size=”alert-block” variation=”alert-success”]It is. There was an article a bit back from a reporter who saw an SSD for a stupidly low cost. He thought it was too good to be true, but the guy offered a demo to prove it and copied a (Presumably) bootleg movie in its entirety over to the SSD, and let the reporter watch part of it, and sure enough, it played. He let the reporter do it on his own, and even let him look at it in device manager/windows manager.
He Bought it, and couldn't get it to store his videos properly back in the States. Turned out, it was a clever bit of hardware and software ingenuity. The drive had a case and 2 bolts with a 512 MB flash drive on the inside. The firmware of the drive had been adjusted to make the 512mb drive think it was actually 500GB. When it would fill up with over 512mb of data, it would start erasing the oldest data. Thanks to indexing and hardy software playing, the program playing the video was able to pick up in the middle where the video, in its mind started—The reporter had assumed it was just picking up where it was last left off, and because of the indexing in the file, so did the actual video player.[/alert]
Meanwhile, neoform reveals how he was similarly scammed when he purchased two 2TB USB drives from China:
[alert size=”alert-block” variation=”alert-info”][–]neoform 3 points 1 day ago[/alert]
[alert size=”alert-block” variation=”alert-info”]When I was in China last year I picked up a few USB keys: https://i.imgur.com/cRMwsTS.jpg
When you plug them into your computer, they actually report as 2TB. Of course, if you tried putting 2TB worth of data, you'll be losing that data pretty quickly.[/alert]
Have you experienced similar incidents like the ones described? We look forward to your experiences in the comments below!
