John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Needed an mp3 player for the car, didn't have to be anything fancy at all because it will be hidded away and never seen.
Looked on ebay, found a couple of 8gig ones, won an auction for an 8gb ipod looking thing for £13.
Wasn't expecting it to be anything special but as long as it played mp3's.
Got it through, build quality was shoking but no worse than expected, played mp3's, thought that'll do the job nicely.
Started copying all my songs across, all went ahead fine as far as I could see.
Sat looking through albums in the car noticed that it didn't seem to be showing up the full collection.
Connected it back up to the computer, all t he folders I added were there 
Done a bit of further digging, it has a 16 gigabit memory chip which is 2 gigabytes 
They just flash them to look like 8gb, I've heard of it happening but have now seen it first hand.
I've emailed the guy and he's already offered a partial refund but told him to gtf I want it all back
Summary, don't buy an 8gb mp3 player off ebay for under £30 because an 8gb flash chip alone costs about 20 quid, so any cheaper and it will be a fake 
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
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I hope he's gonna get a tasty negative feedback, seeing as he can't retaliate.
People like that rely on buyers not bothering to return the items and get their money back. Scummer 
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I had already left positive because it looked to be fine
It's the principle rather than the money, i'll see what he replys with the stick a paypal claim in.
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Jules
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Registered: 26th Nov 04
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Status: Happy
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Buy cheap buy twice etc etc etc 
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I agree 100%, was more of a how bad can these really be buy, if I was wanting one to use more than just in the car I wouldn't have even considered it.
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ssj_kakarot
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Registered: 29th Apr 03
Location: hartlepool
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most the stuff on ebay is cheap chinease shite that only lasts a week.
put a complaint in with paypal and they will give you a full refund if he wont.
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