The price went down $0.48. AFTER I purchased my three of them :-(
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I purchased two USB readers like this
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-0-Memory-Card-Reader-Writer-SD-SDHC-MS-CF-TF-MMC_W0QQitemZ220369380228QQihZ012QQcategoryZ51082QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>
> from seller dsdshop1 as recommended by Moose. Very low price, free
> shipping. Shipped promptly as it arrived fairly quickly from Portland
> via first class mail. One of the readers didn't work. After examining
> the CF socket it appeared that one of the pins was short by several mm.
> Maybe inserted too low. A CF card (with images) was recognized as
> present (after lots of thinking about it) but deemed to be unformatted.
>
> I emailed the seller right away who replied within about 8 hours asking
> if I preferred a replacement unit. I said yes and received a
> replacement just as quickly as the original shipment. The second one
> works fine. There was no need to return the defective unit and I have
> left the seller positive feedback.
>
> Based on the fact that Moose had to get a replacement too it may be that
> only half of these things work. But at the price it's OK. But I only
> have CF cards so I have no idea if all the other sockets work too.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
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