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A couple months ago I bought some Kingston RAM from eBay to upgrade my T22. Well, a week ago it failed (memtest spewed a litany of errors) so I had to get a replacement. Well, Kingston's RMA site is the most painless I've seen and when I got it, they offered to pay shipping both ways! The experience was most pleasant and I'd reccommend them for anyone who needs RAM.

There are a lot of fake Kingston products out there, at least where I live. I bought a USB 1 GB pen, and it turned out to be a counterfit. They counterfitted it well, but the moving part which puts the pen in write protect didn't exist, and I was able to tell by photos and checking the serial number on Kingston's RMA site that the USB pen was fake. The USB pen copied one file, and promptly die. These go for about $100 CDN, so it was not a small sum.

If this happens to anybody, print out the pictures of the legitimate product, call the company and get serial numbers and case numbers after complaining, and go back to the store and pull a Wong. If you make a lot of noise and say you'll fuck em up, they'll either give you a full refund or a store credit most of the time, if you were smart and didn't buy the product from a street vendor but an actual store.

<edit>Oh, and manufacturers won't give you an RMA number for a fake product, so you gotta pull a Wong or the store will get away with selling fake shit and might even brush you off. My mom went there first, and being a little naive and less loud, got nothing, while my brother got everything he wanted.</edit>

Brian

Counterfeit.

Uraniun235 wrote:Counterfeit.

*smack*

Brian


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