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:
(I read the blog via RSS. I'd happily give the normal URL for the blog, but it isn't working now.)
/Lew
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 l> I just read a recent post on a blog I follow that's written by a
No, he was buying from an authorized distributor. If you read more of his blog, I think you'd see he's an ethical guy.
It's a convenient way to check blogs that aren't updated terribly often.
/Lew
I read that article more than once. Why didnt his distributor refund,exchange,whatever his KSDs. At the minimum HE IS in China and complaining about the supply chain. If he is laying it at the feet of Kingston he better have a good Chinese lawyer. If he is really making anything of value his biggest problem is property theft and duplication.
Jim
This is pretty much normal. You should see what it's like in the aftermarket electronics world.
I was at a hamfest not too long ago where a man was selling some brand new 211 tubes with the old RCA logo on them and "Made In America" stamped on the side. Someone asked the vendor if they really were made in America, and he said, "No, that's from the Shugang plant in China, they just stamp that crap on the side of all of them."
--scott
interesting and detailed teardown analysis would like to see detailed technical like that in the tea world
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