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A significant high number of eBayers have been deceived by inferior quality, unpopular cheap, slow CF rebadged as SanDisk Ultra II for quick profit as a very high percentage of all 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB CF listed on eBay are counterfeit items. Genuine buyers got scammed by fraudulent eBay sellers everyday and this process keep on repeating voip. Since many have not seen genuine production SanDisk unit and counterfeit is now made to appear like 80% genuine, it is indeed difficult for most people to tell them apart. From the pictures submitted by eBayers all over the world, we are exposing the physical difference in the counterfeit which you can benefit from whether you intend to purchase one or make comparison with your own high speed internet service. Beware of sellers that are using original SanDisk web download pictures to sell counterfeit SanDisk as they do not represent the actual item that you will receive! This article covers all SanDisk Ultra II 512MB (SDCFH-512), 1.0GB (SDCFH-1024), 2.0GB (SDCFH-2048), 4.0GB (SDCFH-4096) and 8.0GB (SDCFH-8192) models. Clue #1 Reveal Manufacturer's Part Number using PCMCIA CF Card Adapter (Cannot use USB Card Reader) * You can use any PCMCIA CF Card Adapter to reveal its true manufacturer's code property inside the CF card. The common USB Card Reader will NOT be able to reveal this information. * A Lexar 32-bit CardBus Reader was used to identify the manufacturer part number of the two 4GB CF cards under the test, using standard Windows XP or Vista's "Device Manager" or using the "Safely Remove Hardware" process on Windows taskbar colocation hosting. * Genuine SanDisk CF, will display as "SanDisk SDCFH-.... SCSI Disk Device" for SanDisk Ultra CF range, "SanDisk SDCFX-.... SCSI Disk Device" for SanDisk Extreme CF range. Substitute "...." with the actual capacity of your card in MB. So a genuine SanDisk 4GB Ultra CF will display as "SanDisk SDCFH-4096 SCSI Disk Device". * Fake SanDisk CF will display as other incorrect part number. One such fake CF displays as "TRANSCEND SCSI Disk Device" instead, clearly a rebadged CF from Transcend CF card. * Why REBADGING? The answer is HIGH PROFIT. The market price of corresponding 33X or 45X speed Transcend, A-Data or NoName OEM CF cards with different internal electronics components are clearly way less than half the price of the similar speed SanDisk. Double or triple the original selling price is achievable by simply rebadging them to become the 66X speed SanDisk Ultra II CF, when most buyers have no idea the CF card they have received is simply a rebadged fake SanDisk Ultra II card. So you must always check your cards! 1. Genuine has 4 round metal corners inside the black plastic housing. Fake has 2 sharper top corners and 2 rounder bottom corners. Some fakes have the front label as upside down. 2. Genuine has thick black plastic housing at bottom edge and are in consistent with side edges as well. Fake is way too thin at bottom edge and thicker at side edges, resulting in overall larger internal metal surface area. Another fake variant has non-straight metal edge on the left and right hand side of the card as shown unix hosting. 3. Genuine has shinny aluminum surface with brushed horizontal pattern. Fake has matt/dull stainless-steel surface with no pattern. 4. For 4.0GB card, genuine has a wider font face on the '4' digit. Fake is bolder. 5. Genuine uses print ready/control vector art technique to print the label. Fake uses inferior hi-res bitmap to copy the genuine label, so zoom in a bit to see the printing flaw.