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Redditor buys fake SSDs on eBay to report sellers and protect consumers

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A Reddit user is actively combating a scam on eBay where sellers are selling counterfeit SSDs and HDDs. The user purchases these drives, confirms they are fake (often containing a microSD card and weights hot-glued inside), reports the sellers to eBay, and receives a refund. This practice helps protect other consumers by getting fraudulent sellers accounts suspended, even if the scammers quickly create new ones. These fake drives, which falsely advertise capacities like 16TB but contain much smaller storage, pose a significant risk of data loss for unsuspecting buyers. AI

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RANK_REASON User-driven consumer protection effort against counterfeit products.

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Redditor buys fake SSDs on eBay to report sellers and protect consumers

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Jowi Morales ·

    Redditor buys suspicious drives on eBay just to report the scamming sellers if they get a fake SSD or HDD — latest '16TB' find has weights and microSD card hot-glued inside the enclosure to make it feel legit

    u/Hartkralle says that eBay refunds them when they report these fake drives, so getting scammers banned from the platform is worth their effort. While fake sellers would likely just create a new account on eBay in an hour or so, they say that it's still another hour before an uns…

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