6Sep/061
Counterfeit Sandisk Compact Flash Cards
Recently a flood of conterfeit Sandisk CF cards (Mostly Ultra II) have shown up in the marketplace. Ebay and fly-by-night web-shops are the biggest sources of these cards.
Many of the cards are well below the specified storage values (Cards advertised as 2GB actually are 1GB, etc.) The cards will often fail very quickly and take any images stored inside with them.
So, if you're in the market for CF cards and are looking at Sandisk, make sure you buy from someone like Amazon.com, B&H, or a local brick-and-mortar.