Buying an 8TB hard drive on Taobao for 200 yuan turned out to be a scam. Netizens ridiculed: How many idiots do you have to believe to believe it? | There are often tragic stories on the Internet about Taobao shopping and buying fake products; recently, there were news reports in the Mainland. Someone bought a “shrunk disk” while buying a hard drive on Taobao, but he received no sympathy from other netizens. Instead, they pointedly accused him of having “intellectual problems.”
Mainland news reports on Taobao incident involving hard drive purchase
Jack Ma, the founder of Taobao, once said publicly that “people who say there are many fakes must have basically never bought anything from Taobao” and “if there were fakes, would Taobao’s daily sales be six to seven billion yuan (RMB)?” ?”; Or it may be true, as Jack Ma said, that the proportion of counterfeit goods and profiteers on Taobao may not be as high as some netizens imagine; however, with Taobao being so large, it is inevitable that bad apples and scammers will “eat” on Taobao to sell fake goods and defraud. .
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According to news from Huashang.com published on Tencent.comreportIt refers to a 50-year-old citizen “Mr. Xu” in Xi’an in the Mainland. In mid-December last year, he purchased a mobile hard drive with an 8TB capacity from the Taobao store “Taobao Factory·Daily Sale Factory Store”. It is reported that the mobile hard drive claims to have 8T capacity, 3.0 high-speed reading and writing, and imported chips, and is priced at 255 yuan. After Mr. Xu used various discounts, the discounted price was 187.2 yuan (about 208 Hong Kong dollars).
(Internet picture, not the product involved)
Upon arrival, it was discovered that the goods were “shrunk”.
According to the report, Mr. Xu said that although the price of Tao Factory’s hard drive is obviously cheaper than that of other stores, and hard drives with the same configuration are generally sold for about 1,000 yuan in other brand stores; Taobao’s official platform, plus the product description “Within 30 days of confirmation of receipt, due to discrepancies between the product and the information on the display page or quality problems, the official directly-operated store will handle it within 24 hours and provide after-sales guarantee”, “Authentic guarantee Rights protection slogans such as “Fake one, you’ll lose four” made him decide to trust it and place an order at once.
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By December 18, Mr. Xu got the hard drive purchased online. After plugging it into his computer, it was indeed shown to have an 8T capacity, but he was unable to perform basic operations such as formatting and partitioning the hard drive. Afterwards, Mr. Xu immediately used a software to test the hard drive, and the result was displayed as “Your USB flash drive is a shrink disk! The real ratio is 0%! It is recommended that you contact the purchaser as soon as possible to replace it.”
“Shrunk disk” refers to unscrupulous businessmen using software to forcibly rewrite the information on a USB finger or mobile hard drive, so that the marked capacity is much larger than the actual capacity, thereby defrauding consumers. Generally, when the actual capacity of a hard drive is less than 90% of the nominal capacity, it is considered a “shrunk drive.”
Schematic diagram of shrink disk identification software (online picture)
Later, Mr. Xu disassembled the mobile hard drive he bought. The internal structure is very simple. It only has a small square card that looks like a chip installed on the bottom plate. There are also traces of polishing on the surface of the chip. It is believed that it needs to be polished. Remove the model, capacity and other information originally printed on the chip. Mr. Xu believes that this is obviously a profiteer using a small-capacity ordinary memory card to pretend to be an 8T storage chip to deceive consumers.
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The certificate contains instructions for use in Mongolian.
Reports indicate that the outer packaging of the hard drive purchased by Mr. Xu had a “certificate” label stating that the implementation standard was “T26226-2010”. However, after investigation, the standard turned out to correspond to the “Information Technology Mongolian Deformed Display Character Set” and control character usage rules”.
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Rights protection to no avail
The report continued that Mr. Xu wanted a refund after buying fake goods, but the road to rights protection was full of difficulties. The report stated that Mr. Xu applied for a refund on the Taobao platform on December 19, but was ultimately rejected. On December 25, the refund channel that Mr. Xu originally applied for was closed and no refund could be made. On December 26, a person who claimed to be Taobao’s senior customer service specialist contacted Mr. Xu on the platform. After Mr. Xu sent the specialist evidence that the hard drive was a counterfeit product, he only responded with a few words of “sorry.” After that, until January 14, when the report was published, Mr. Xu did not receive any further contact from Taobao, and of course there was no follow-up on the refund.
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Netizens ridiculed “It’s a question of whether you can turn on the computer or not.”
Checking the prices of mobile hard drives on the market, 8TB mobile hard drives are generally priced around HK$1,500; if it is an 8TB mobile SSD high-speed solid hard drive, it will cost more than HK$5,000. Even if a cheaper computer has a built-in 3.5-inch hard drive, 8TB capacity will cost about HK$1,000.
An 8TB mobile hard drive priced at such a cheap price is almost certainly defective. Therefore, netizens have no sympathy for Mr. Xu’s experience, saying, “I believe that 255 can buy an 8TB hard drive with an IQ, and even knowing how to turn on a computer is a question.”, ” You don’t have any common sense and you still want to pick up the leaks” and so on. However, some people expressed their understanding of Mr. Xu’s experience and believed that there are really people who are “computer idiots” who know nothing about computers and peripheral accessories, and the ones who are always the most wrong are profiteers. Many netizens also left messages saying that if you buy electronic products, it is recommended to buy electronic products. Buying from Duoduo or JD.com provides more guarantee and better after-sales service than Taobao.
2024-01-16 12:55:57
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