*good Deal* 16gb Micro Sd
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I'm not a Wiz owner, but just felt compelled to pop over to this thread and point out that the wholesale price for 16GB flash chips alone, not yet forming any sort of flash-drive or memory card, is generally around the $29 mark at this time. (Add the costs for the casings, controller hardware, packaging, and transit between countries to reach the retailer, and you can probably guess where I'm going with this.
)Would I be correct in guessing that these ~$35 cards are not supplied by Amazon, but by third parties selling via Amazon's website? The reason I ask this is, if a card is being sold for $35, it most likely wouldn't be turning a profit - or would barely be doing so - which raises alarm bells (at least with me) about the item's legitimacy. Amazon themselves aren't anything to worry about, of course, but fake flash media has been sold on there by third parties recently.
Just a warning in the hope of preventing any possible problems for anyone.
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And I've been using this card since I got my Wiz without issues.
Edit: It's list price fluctuates quite a lot. When I linked it the card was listed at 36, and as of this edit it's at 38.
Just be careful inserting and handling those Transcend cards, DONT bend them even slightly. I had the same card go BAD after inserting it to put stuff on it after about a year. I lost everything and the card became unuseable. I am very careful with things too.
I pryed the plastic apart to see if i could see a problem, I did. The PCB in those is paper thin, a few of the memory chip's legs delaminated from the PCB. The traces were so fine that it wasn't repairable.
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