★ counterfeits in amazon pipeline
The 32 gb card I bought here at Amazon turned out to be fake. Within days I was getting read errors, even though the card was still mostly empty.
The logo is noticably blurry compared with a 32 gb card purchased elsewhere. Also, the color of the grey half of the card is subtly wrong, and the lettering is subtly wrong.
Amazon apparently has counterfiet stock in their pipeline, google "amazon counterfiet" for more.
You will not find this review on Sandisk Ultra 32GB Micro SDHC UHS-I Card with Adapter - 98MB/s U1 A1 - SDSQUAR-032G-GN6MA because it was rejected. As far as I can tell my review violates none of Amazon's posted guidelines. But it's specific about how to tell this card is counterfeit, and it mentions a real and ongoing issue that Amazon clearly wants to cover up.
Those things are a plague... It's surprising how many cards are fake! I've been maintaining the f3 package in Debian for a bit now and I've tested it against a few keys. Some show up as fake, but I'm pretty sure it misses a few. I'm curious to see what it would make of your key.
This is one of the reasons I don't buy at Amazon (anymore): on top of horrible worker conditions, returns are hard or impossible to carry out. At the corner store, I can and do go back and tell them their stuff is crap, and they actually care about fixing that because customers are in their face and won't come back if they don't fix it. :)
f3 does not detect the card as a fake. Although it did have a write failure half way through the scan, perhaps due to overheating. Or due to a low quality though full capacity flash chip used in a fake.
And I could be wrong about that, despite the other indications. But a reviewer can of course be wrong about anything, that's not a reason to censor their review.
I wonder if your comment tripped a spam filter, rather than a coverup? 'Google "keywords" for more' is a phrase I see in a lot of comment-spam I get where they're trying to avoid rules that quarantine comments with links in them by instead including carefully selected search keywords which will turn up only the target site.
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I've had a negative Amazon review removed because the seller reported my review. I was able to submit a new review that was not removed, after contacting Amazon support. Also, when I contacted Amazon support they explained why my review had been removed, which I found very helpful. Here's what Amazon support said:
Note my original review from above:
I feel that mentioning the seller in this way was very relevant, but I guess Amazon disagrees. The positive reviews also mentioned the seller, but of course the seller didn't complain about those. I then asked Amazon about the double standard but they ignored me:
But at least they didn't remove my updated review:
Maybe you could contact Amazon support and find out what technicality allowed the seller to have your review removed?