In the US the relationship between a business and a supplier are
nearly sacrosanct. A problem like this would be resolved between the
supplier and manufacturer. This guy is in China apparently buying
parts off the blackmarket so he can save a buck which doesnt
necessarily get passed on to the consumer. He deserves what he gets.
The S on my Kingstons are broken. I can get a pair of 2gig at Big
Lots for $8. You also hear the fake Menghai is better than the real
deal. I bailed out of the market in 2005 when I paid $50 for a kilo
that use to cost me $10. As far as I can tell it still is
overinflated. I do give China credit they will execute their white
collar criminals. The tainted milk guys are gone. We need more of
that in this country to keep Wall Street in check. Madoff wouldnt die
in a country club cell.

Jim

PS Your link brought up something called Google Reader on FireFox
Linux which I hadnt seen before. There were advertisements at the top
before the article.

On Feb 16, 12:10 pm, Lewis Perin > wrote:
> I just read a recent post on a blog I follow that's written by a
> computer hardware designer - perhaps most famous for the Chumby - who
> spends a lot of his time close to his sources, which is to say, in
> China. The subject is his experience with a shipment of fake flash
> memory, and his experience has a lot of parallels with, say, buying
> fake Pu'er cakes:
>
> http://www.google.com/reader/view/?t...Fhttp%3A%2F%2F...
>
> (I read the blog via RSS. I'd happily give the normal URL for the
> blog, but it isn't working now.)
>
> /Lew
> ---
> Lew Perin /