Subject: Re: Walmart sent me 1TB no-name sdcards instead of a 256GB TOPESEL sdcards.
On Tue, 10/13/2026 2:14 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:
Paul wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cameras/comments/1wjfibr/is_there_sd_cards_shortage_globally/
The general theme seems to be, stock still available, some places don't
have high capacity ones, prices double or triple. If you're being
given <cough> 1TB ones, a pair of them, that could be $300 worth
going for $40. If those devices were real, there would be no bowl of
rice for the seller today.
Thanks for that useful information as I really know nothing about sdcards.
For some reason, I had thought that Walmart is legitimate even as I was
aware that both Walmart & Amazon list stuff that other people sell.
I haven't opened them, as I only got them yesterday, and then my first thought was "Hey, they gave me 1TB instead of 256GB" which would be good.
<https://i.postimg.cc/JnrnY79Z/memorycard02.jpg>
It irks me if this is common at Walmart, 'cuz it means they can't be
trusted, but how did you find out the comopany that sells them?
I could only send a message to them asking (essentially) "WTF?".
Same with Walmart. I could only send them a request to return it.
The problem with returning it is it's a PITA for no good reason.
I'm not worried about getting my money back, but now I have to deliver the damn cards to Fedex or to Walmart personally, which is an extra PITA.
And, I still need to find a set of 256GB cards for my wife (who isn't
happy, as she thinks I screwed up, again, trying to find the best price.
I have to admit it seemed like a good price $20 each for 256GB cards.
To make sure it was a "good brand" I looked up TOPESEL before buying.
It wasn't top tier in my search results, but it was one level below.
These cards, it seems, are no-name as I couldnt' find who makes 'em.
I really do not know how this memory card process works.
Who makes 1TB cards (supposedly 1TB anyway) that wouldn't work?
What is the advantage of making a 1TB card that doesn't work?
Makes no sense to me.
I guess they could be rejected 1TB cards, in which case they would have
gone into the trash at the factory but they sold them at Walmart instead?
But I thought Walmart was reputable.
Why would they allow this to happen?
I guess I could order another set and if it still comes back like this,
then it's just a scam that Walmart perpetuates, but that's another PITA.
Sigh.
Where would we get 2x 256GB "reasonable-brand" cards for a decent price?
Originally, all the scams were on Ebay.
But Walmart and Amazon, in spite of efforts to stamp out the
fake SSD drives in the aluminum cases, they really can't keep up.
It's their responsibility to do so, but they seem less than
capable of running a bazaar.
Someone noticed there were no more Lexar ones, and Lexar is
now a Chinese company. And, they are very much alive. Lexar
has no trouble supplying SSD drives to my computer store,
so as a company, they are very much functional... if there
is something to sell.
It's hard to say what is happening on the supply side of SD,
and what we can really expect. But anyone who "up-capacities"
you like this, that spells "danger" to me. This isn't some
happy little accident. The happy little accidents do happen,
but usually the "qty" is wrong. You order one of an item,
a box of eight of something else shows up, which is just
an inventory filling mistake. The pattern in your case
is more suspicious. When the items are hard to get, they
shouldn't just be giving them away, unless it's a fraud
and the amount of NAND inside those 1TB is less than the legit
256GB you expected.
If you wanted a USB stick, the shelves are a bit barren.
They aren't entirely gone, but when stock is sold, they
seem unable to put more on the hooks. My computer store
for example, has had no "Extreme" sticks for several years.
And now, it's just a general shortage of USB sticks.
I haven't checked the Best Buy, to see if they even stock
USB sticks. At our store, they were sitting in a pile at
the bottom of a display, and you had to pick through them
like you were looking through a DVD delete-bin :-) They
couldn't be bothered to put them on the hooks.
These are thin times, and this sort of behavior is table-stakes.
And there will always be people out there, who pretend
everything is normal, and if you splash out with enough
cash, you will get the normal quality goods. Maybe.
Just not at the Walmart bazaar site.
Paul
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