Ebay selling 2TB drives from China for $18.50?

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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These things have to be counterfiet. Right? I was about to buy one of them, but there’s just this sick pit in my gut that says it will be disastrous. However, there are a bunch of them sold on Ebay right now. Between these two listings, there’s about 400+ sold currently in the last two days.

Anyone know anything about them?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220786323706&category=158825&_trksid=p5197.c0.m619

http://cgi.ebay.com/My-Book-Western-Digital-2TB-External-Hard-Drive-3-0-USB-/280680280817?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D4%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D54800146565335624

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I’d be suspicious of them being stolen or something else stuffed in the WD enclosure.

Joe

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I am agree with Joe and another thing, those drives from ebay are out of warranty, DO NOT BUY THOSE DRIVES … you better buy them on a retailer store or from the WD Storewebsite

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See http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-magic-drive.html

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That’s pretty funny. Last year I was looking on Seagate forum and there were a few people who opened the sealed box with a new drive and there was a bad smell. When they had the drive opened  it was full of old coffee grounds.

Joe

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I recommend only purchasing products from places of business that are listed here:

http://wdc.com/en/buy/