https://nitter.net/josephfcox/status/1564599960900980737?t=MxMDwhZB_YpyuF9nicLewA&s=19
having SD cards lie about their capacity is not a new trick, but multiple SD cards wearing a single trench coat is new to me.
Already well aware of these being sold on Amazon. Wonder if these were just sold on their website or actually stocked in store
Alright looks like it was the website. Walmart really competing with Amazon in a race to the bottom. Glad to see capitalism is continuing to breed innovation
scamazon is loaded with shit now, a couple years ago people started doing a scam where they list Walmart items on Amazon at four to six times their price, if you buy it they have Walmart deliver it. another one that's been around a while is any time an item gets discontinued, people will list the old version of the item at huge markups, trying to catch people using "buy again"
Walmart and Target are doing the Amazon thing with third party sellers on their websites now, too, right?
Not even a glued-in lug nut in there to make it feel more weighty smdh :visible-disgust:
Doesn't Walmart get their shit from 3rd parties? It would seem to me that some poor bastard with a title like "jr sales director II" was given a list of things to sell, thought the hard drive was neat, and didn't have the presence of mind to see that the tech was improbable. In that sense, some scummy businessman got one over on Walmart, not Walmart getting one over on you. Out of the abundance of reasons to hate Walmart, this may not be one of them.
I think it's kind of an Amazon-style thing where they have independent sellers for stuff that handle shipping and warehousing
It seems like it works great, no errors copying into the drive, and then when you try to copy your data off the drive you can only get the last 8 GB ( or whatever the real size of the drive is) of whatever you put in there. Or more often, nothing at all, the files appear to be there but it just saved the file structure and not the actual data. Brilliant, really.
Edit: forgot to mention two SD cards would be slower than dogshit in comparison to a SSD, in addition to not being anywhere near the advertised size.
I think I’ve literally had people run into problems with these things lol.
They used to do this with USB thumb drives in the ripoff markets in Shanghai years back. When the average drive was 64-256 megs they had drives in the 30 gig range for the same price. Uh-huh, sure. They'd even plug them into laptops to show you Windows reporting the drive size. I didn't fall for it but a lot of people did, unfortunately.
