Three strikes and your out - strike one.
Apparently bad things happen in threes - well, these aren't that bad (so I may have more to come), but they are worth sharing:
Over a month ago I came across this advert on eBay:
The price was unbelievable, a must have - so I bought one (I was tempted to buy more). Within a week I was the proud owner of a 16GB pen drive. 30 minutes later, I wasn't. Even though the device reported to have a 16GB capacity, as soon as I copied more that 4GB onto it, it corrupted everything that was already on it. Formatting failed, chkdsk failed, everything I could do failed. I had a 4GB pen drive that was clever enough to pretend to be 16GB.
In my anger (at being duped), I raised a dispute on eBay (I was sold something that's description was nothing like the goods sold). Anyway, after nearly a month of back and forth - me stating I was sold a 16GB drive & I therefore would not be happy until I got one, and the seller offering me my money back - I gave in a took my refund.
Lesson learned - things on eBay that are too good to be true, probably aren't.
Dave.
