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Re: [OM] Moose's USB reader recommendation

Subject: Re: [OM] Moose's USB reader recommendation
From: Rand E <rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:06:25 -0400
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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