http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/ Engadget Comments for The surprisingly seedy side of microSD production http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/
And obviously you couldn't wait and see if it was going to come up for a minute or two... wouldn't want to miss that first slot, would we? :p]]>Feb 24th 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/"How much memory does it hold?"
"2 Gigs"
"Wow--"
"Assuming both of your gigs aren't more than an hour long"
"Wait wha-"
*grabs money and runs*

......Story of my life.]]>Feb 24th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/
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In a past life I was involved in importing shoes from Korea.
The factories that produced all the branded shoes all had 'ghost shifts' too with the factory managers producing an excess to sell on the side. In terms of quality, the products themselves are genuine -- obvious given that its from the same factory made with the same materials. The only difference was that the 'ghost shifts' wouldn't be so strict with quality assurance so you had the odd reject here and there.]]>Feb 24th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Moral: don't buy things in China?]]>Feb 24th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/
I wonder if this is where Microcenter gets its dirt cheap flash mem. Its a private label brand, but I'm sure like most things it just batch produced and they slap their logo on it.]]>Feb 24th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those 8GB-mircoSDs]]>Feb 24th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Its nice to see we have some GiTS:SAC fans in the audience.

P.S. It was those damn Tachikomas....]]>Feb 24th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/
http://i26.tinypic.com/14e319s.jpg]]>Feb 24th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/
that is all]]>Feb 24th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/I already thought it was strange that the mini-SD card itself was in a plastic package, but the normal-sized adapterwas taped to the package.
Hmmmm... :)]]>Feb 24th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Hard to imagine those facilities have much downtime]]>Feb 24th 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/
It seems like most KIRF comes from sketch Asian countries...]]>Feb 24th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Damn that's so sketchy.

I had the same thoughts about eBay. I almost just bought a 16GB microSD on eBay, that seemed legit since it was priced only slightly below Amazon, but I figured maybe that was their strategy. So I just ended up ordering it on Amazon.]]>Feb 24th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/
My bad for not checking the manufacturers website to make sure they were actually available yet.

However, I feel that some of the fault lies with the manufacturers for announcing a product and then not have it available yet for more than a f-ing year after they announce it.

In my case, I did a quick search, saw they announced it over a year ago (or so) and bought one.

I did manage to get my money back through PayPal.]]>Feb 24th 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/because they used waste material, thats why]]>Feb 24th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Lot of times the workers will substitute materials, like using baking soda instead of germanium, or used pizza boxes instead of silicon.]]>Feb 24th 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/
It's disappointing when you have a load of irreplaceable pictures and your 'genuine' card fails!]]>Feb 24th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/the-surprisingly-seedy-side-of-microsd-production/Feb 24th 2010 10:11PM