You can always count on idiots ..

.. to be idiots. Einstein mentioned this.

eBay provides a perfect example..

1TB Micro SD: £9.99

This is not currently possible.

I mean from a real-world physics-economics / reality point-of-view. It simply can't be done. Despite this fact, it is being done quite a lot right now on all selling platforms. Similarly you cannot ship a latest-spec laptop from China at a tenth of the usual price, just because it's "from China".

Minimal research will prove this. But folk don't. Instead they buy the cheap card and Xmo down the line wonder why all their precious photos are now just scrambled data.

You can try and "do your bit", try to save ordinary (un-tech folk) their bits by reporting a scam listing, but eBay will snub your report. No, they will. Even if every user comment says "FAKE DO NOT BUY FROM THIS FUCKER!!" eBay will blow you off.

Try it.

My eBay user account is DECADES old. Seriously, if I start a chat with eBay help reps I invariably endure at least two comments about how grateful they are for my long and loyal blah blah; until I point out that they are wasting their loyal blah-blah's fucking time and should shut up with the thank-yous and all other redundant shite. P,lease.

But even this revered eBay-veteran has zero power over the shit and noise that floods online selling platforms. I've tried fixing something there exactly three times and will try no more. Why waste all our time? Something in their system prevents ingress of good sense.

Och well.

And so "dem China's" be making stuff idiots buy, so long as we keep suppling idiots. I mean you. Maybe.

But hey, refunds available within stated timescale, so you can at least be financially relieved, enabling you to conveniently ignore the actual issue we continue to fuel. If you checked those images that were "stored" beyond the 4GB actual size of the card before the 60 days runs out, that is. Do you create 2GB of images a month?

If you buy storage and don't test it with H2Testw / f3 before putting it into use.. Well, that's on you. eBay's 60 days will pass before you realise those amazing wedding / birthday / funeral pics are utterly gone.

It's clever actually. Buy a shit-ton of ancient microSD cards, like 4GB or something. Reprogram them to report that that they are actually 128GB, or 1TB, or whatever unscrupulous sellers think gullible idiots will believe. Print some fancy text and logos on the card. Boom! Sell for 1000x it's original cost. Seriously, you can pick up old-gen cards for pennies.

But you wouldn't fall for that, right?