DealFind featured very “great” deal again (remember “The Butchers”?):
$29 for a 32 GB SD Memory Card, Including Shipping from XSV 360 ($99 Value)
XSV 360 has been promoted on other daily deal websites like DealTicker, WagJag, SwarmJam, Groupon, WebPiggy, Buy2, JabrDeals, PriceDodger, DealGetters. Also with another “manufacturer” – PNY instead of Toshiba, and as micro-SD cards as well.
But if the deal is too good to be true… you know… do not forget that 50% goes to DealFind, i.e. XSV 360 will only get $14.50 per memory card sold. This is absolutely impossible price for branded 32 GB SD Memory Card with Class 10 speed rating. So, it is most likely fake, i.e. at least not from Toshiba, and not 32 GB. Let’s check it out.
The picture shows “Powered By Toshiba” which let people think that the card is manufactured by Toshiba:
DealFind customer satisfaction experts even confirmed that 32GB SDHC Class 10 Memory Cards provided by XSV360 are manufactured by Toshiba but in a very shady way. Many customers asked what “Powered by Toshiba” actually means on their discussion board about this deal. Some unknown (no XSV360-related signature) user “Lloyd” answered common question, and DealFind customer satisfaction expert confirmed it in a short way: “Lloyd is correct!“:
(click on images to enlarge)
Let’s take a looks at Toshiba website to see what kind of 32 GB SD memory cards they offer:
Black one:
And white one:
Toshiba does not manufacture memory cards featured by DealFind and XSV 360!
One of the customer satisfaction experts even provided the make – “HS”, model number SDM32G, and serial number VHSX95Y of memory cards:
However, “HS” is absolutely unknown make, only xsv360.com and DealFind know about this make. If we try to search for model number in the Internet, we can find that SDM32G model number corresponds to Novatech SD memory cards. Not Toshiba or even so called “HS”:
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What about warranty? XSV360 website sells all the products “As-Is” on their website. They do not make any refunds and do not provide any kind of warranty!
However, “Lloyd – Toronto” – either representative from XSV 360 or DealFind, claims that there is a warranty on these memory cards provided by Toshiba. In case of any failures customers should contact Toshiba:
But! Toshiba support is not aware about this product at all. It does not exist…
It is also funny, but seems like DealFind does not even know what they sell:
And the most popular answer of DealFind Customer Satisfaction Experts is:
Thanks for your post!
We are looking into your question and will get back to you shortly! Please Stay tuned :)
Thank you for using Dealfind!
Kym
Customer Satisfaction Expert
Dealfind
Looks like killing time… because DealFind must know answers to most of the questions if the deal had been well prepared for the customers…
So far, over 6200 memory cards have been sold, which is $180,000 – almost one hundred thousand dollars for each of them – XSV 360 and DealFind.
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Summarizing information to let people decide whether to buy this “deal” or not:
- 85% discount (50% of voucher cost goes to DealFind) for branded piece of electronic such as 32GB SDHC Class 10 Memory Card from Toshiba is absolutely impossible. It means that the product is fake
- Toshiba does not recognize the product model and serial numbers
- XSV 360 sells products “As-Is”. Refunds are not accepted at all
- No warranty on the product. If something is wrong, you loose money
- XSV 360 sells many other scam products like Energy Balance Bracelets with ion technology, Kinoki Foot Pads, fake PNY 32GB SDHC memory cards, fake Vapur bottles, etc, etc, etc…
What can be wrong with the card when you receive it? Do you think it still worth even $29?
- Again, absolutely no warranty, no refunds
- It can be some cheap 2GB/4GB/8GB memory card which will be shown as 32GB in your device’s operating system. But when you will reach the actual physical size of the memory card, it will start overwriting existing contents on the card and producing read/write errors when you will try to access some old data.
- It can be just broken out of the envelope – no refunds…
DealFind promise?! When you realize that something is wrong with the card (when it reaches its actual size), 30 days will most likely pass, and no one will help you…
This deal is expected to run for about one week more… That is people can start ordering from XSV 360 website only in one week + couple days for putting coupons in XSV360.com database as stated on their website. Since there are thousands of orders, it will most likely take more than 3 weeks for the product to be delivered.
DealFind and XSV360 are absolutely safe and protected by their own “terms” and “promises” from their customers…
Think about this now!
Beware!
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Dealfind sold about 8500 fake 32GB memory cards “Powered by Toshiba” from XSV360, i.e. around $247,000. Deal is still running…
There were confusions about the product being featured. Dealfind claimed that the memory cards are indeed manufactured by Toshiba and have standard Toshiba Warranty (in a shady way as mentioned above):
(citations are from DealFind discussion board about this deal)
This SD Card is manufactured by Toshiba, and will come with a standard Toshiba Warranty in addition to any warranty which the vendor will offer
They were also telling about some “HS” manufacturer – nobody has idea about them…
XSV 360 is under legal obligation with the manufacturer not to disclose their information and unfortunately we do not have access to this information
How do we claim warranty then?…
Later they claimed that only the chip inside the card is NOT manufactured by Toshiba:
It means that Toshiba manufactured the card and its circuitry. It does not mean that Toshiba manufactured the actual memory chip inside the card, since very few manufactures actually do produce their own memory chips.
Note, that they told that chip is NOT manufactured by Toshiba.
Now they tell that the chip IS manufactured by Toshiba, not the card itself:
The SD card is not made by Toshiba, however it is powered by a Toshiba chip
They have changed information about this twice. I won’t wonder if they will change information about warranty and refunds after orders are placed. There are two things:
- DealFind promise – 30 days. People who bought this deal most likely won’t see “products” before winter holidays, so don’t rely on it.
- XSV360 website explicitly says that there is absolutely no warranty and no refunds for all products (not only for health products, as DealFind mentioned). They’ve just put warranty statements for this particular product in order to make more sales.
XSV360 return policy can be found here:
http://www.xsv360.com/Return_Policy
There is also a screenshot of this policy above in this post.
DealFind and XSV360 are trying hard to sell as much “deals” as possible to their “valued” customers…
Recently XSV360 posted the picture of the chip which is “manufactured by Toshiba”:
Here is the link:
http://www.xsv360.com/image/cache/data/products/toshiba-500×500.JPG
Well, let’s take a look what it is (screenshot from XSV360 website):
It distinctly shows “TOSHIBA” in the corner. But the part number which is at the bottom is very blurred. I have only two guesses why we can’t clearly see entire number:
- Manufacturing defect when printing letters on the chip. It can happen with everyone, right? But usually defective semiconductor parts are not released for sale.
- XSV360 made a picture in such way…
Anyways, let’s check “Toshiba Semiconductor General Catalog: Memories and Storage Devices” which can be found at official Toshiba website:
http://www.semicon.toshiba.co.jp/docs/catalog/en/SCE0004-02_catalog.pdf
32GB memories have very different part numbers from what XSV360 provided on their picture.
Memories from the catalog with the most common part number are actually 8GB (and some of them are marked as “under development”)…
Received mine yesterday.
SD card came unpackaged in an envelope. Comes with SD case but no packaging.
Ran some tests and it appears to be an 8gb class4 with a 32gb sticker
Here are the results of the test
The media is likely to be defective.
7.7 GByte OK (16327680 sectors)
23.5 GByte DATA LOST (49396736 sectors)
Details:23.5 GByte overwritten (49396736 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
0 KByte corrupted (0 sectors)
16 MByte aliased memory (32768 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000131500000
Expected: 0x0000000131500000
Found: 0x0000000715500000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 3.99 MByte/s
Reading speed: 8.47 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
Appears a lot of people are getting scammed is there anything that can be done besides a refund? inform Toshiba or PNY …..
So as I said earlier if you are not satisfied just call them and ask for your money back. here is the response after I chatted on the phone and they said they needed 24 hours.They were true to their word.See email below…..
Hello Warren,
Thank you for allowing us to contact the merchant. We greatly appreciate it.
We do our best to help with refunds.
You have two options: We can issue the refund back on to your credit card, or in the form of Dealfind Dollars with an additional 10%.
Your Dealfind Dollars never expire, and can be used anytime, on any promotion featured on our site.
Please indicate whether you would prefer Dealfind Dollars or a Credit Card Refund, along with the following information so that we can process your refund as promptly as possible:
Dealfind Dollars+10% or Credit Card Refund:
Last 4 digits of Credit Card (Credit Card Refunds Only):
Dealfind Email address: ***@sympatico.ca
Vendor (Company providing service): XSV 360
Brief reason for refund: negative reviews/dissatisfied with service
Order #(s): 1111**-******-***
Voucher #(s): 51**-29**, 55**-71**, 80**-12**, and 82**-92**.
Please note that once your refund is processed, whether it be back to your credit card or in the form of Dealfind Dollars, all transactions are final. We are unable to reverse the transaction once it has been processed.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to call us at 1-888-320-6368.
We apologize for any inconvenience and we hope you continue to use Dealfind to purchase our Great Deals!
Sure,I bought 3 pcs from them, I’ve just received 3 confirmation from xsv360, but not really receive the products yet, so I can’t confirm to you the product is real yet, hopefully, will receive within 7 days, I will confirm to you whether you are right or they are FAKE, no conclusion in the meantime, let’s see what the outcome is, I just want everyone have the true answer, that is it, thank you so much for your reply, will keep in touch as well. forget to tell you that I know 3 more friends also bought this product, redeem to them and received their confirmation as well.
Ken
Ken, answering your questions if you don’t bother to read the article:
– DealFind did tell on the discussion board in the beginning that the cards are manufactured by Toshiba and that for any warranty claims people should contact Toshiba during 1 year. There are screenshots provided.
– XSV 360 selling products “As Is” – no warranty, no refunds – it is written in their own terms
– The “Toshiba Chip” on the picture provided by XSV 360 does not exist in Toshiba’s database
I hope it answers your questions.
Could you answer as well please? What does your claim mean: “so many people received their confirmation that the mention item being send out to the buyer”? How do you know?
Thanks,
Trueler
Oh! I see, so what can we do about it? how come so many people received their confirmation that the mention item being send out to the buyer? And I also went through the Q&A from the beginning til end of the deal, I found out they never mentioned the product under Toshiba’s warranty, they only mentioned they use Toshiba’s chip and 30days return and one year warranty by xsv360 and manufacturer in Taiwan???? Could you give me the direct answer instead of “Doesn’t the article address your questions?” to answer my questions!!!!!I just want someone to tell the truth since this article came out from your site. Please!!!
Ken
@Ken: Doesn’t the article address your questions? According to information provided by DealFind and XSV 360 the described card does not even exist.
Regards,
Trueler
Is there anybody can tell me what is the meaning by FAKE 32GB SD memory card powered by Toshiba?? Do you mean it’s not 32GB or it is not made by Toshiba or the xsv360 should not mention the company “TOSHIBA” if not made by Toshiba???!!!or it is not real Class 10!!!!?????
Dealfind forwarded the following instructions to me to claim the 32Gb voucher:
Please follow the steps below to redeem your voucher:
1. Visit: http://jofwp.azqgz.servertrust.com/default.asp
2. Find your product on the XSV 360 website
3. Add Product to Cart
4. Click Checkout
5. TYPE (do not copy/paste) your Coupon or Voucher Code in the “Coupon Code” box and click “APPLY”
6. Click Proceed to Checkout
7. Provide your Shipping Information
If this no name product works, I will be happy, but will not deal with them again.
Update:
Just got this email from Dealfind
Hello Valued Dealfind Customer,
We are writing to notify you of the amazing deal you purchased on November 18th – 26th, 2011 from XSV 360.
Please note that they have a brand new website to better serve all customers! They are currently updating their site to simplify the ordering process. Depending on your service provider and area, you may encounter an error, if you do encounter an error, please try redeeming your voucher(s) again in 24-48 hours. If you are unable to redeem your voucher after reattempting, please contact Dealfind Support at http://www.dealfind.com/contact-us.php.
Please follow the steps below to redeem your voucher:
1. Visit: http://jofwp.azqgz.servertrust.com/default.asp
2. Find your product on the XSV 360 website
3. Add Product to Cart
4. Click Checkout
5. TYPE (do not copy/paste) your Coupon or Voucher Code in the “Coupon Code” box and click “APPLY”
6. Click Proceed to Checkout
7. Provide your Shipping Information
Please contact XSV 360 at support@xsv360.com or for the US at 405-634-0195 and for Canada at 1-855-239-0888 with any comments, questions or for technical support.
Thank you for using Dealfind!
Sincerely,
The Dealfind Team
http://www.dealfind.com/contact-us.php
I tried their website today and I get forwarded to another website.
what the hell? I can see that maybe they have upgraded to a new server company but I would have thought they would have just used the same web address to avoid confusion.
Or at least put a notice up on the page that they did this.
I bought one, will try it anyway to see. (If I get by Christmas I will be pleasantly surprised)
Thanks. I fixed a typo in address. On their website it is 2-5350
Also the address I had was 2-5350.
@Trueler, I emailed him and he stated I could pick up today, place was locked. I just emailed dealfind for a refund, enough running around with XSV360, my patience has ran out.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the info. I guess the name on the building was “AHB Technology‎” located at 2-5350 Canotek Rd Ottawa K1J9C9, right? Seems like it is the business of XSV 360 owner (not 100% confirmed yet)…
Also the deal requires only online redemption as I understand.
Thanks,
Trueler
I went to the address shown on the contact on the xsv360 as they are just a short distance away, locked door, different name on the building, no I don’t trust this anymore and am going to ask for a refund from Dealfind.
I tried for 3 days to get my “Toshiba” card with NO luck. After waiting for a loooooooooong time between “continue” I would get some comment that would cause me to have to start all over again. Enough of this and after reading this thread I decided to e-mail Dealfind and get a refund NOW. So now I wait for their reply. I think dealfind and xsv360 know they are in trouble.
This is not about this deal, but about the toothbrush heads that XSV360 and Dealfind were selling.
Last night the manufaturer Oral B or one of their reps actually posted a message asking for proof or purchase from au authorized place and within about 5 minutes they deleted the deal (yes I am a sucker for looking at the dealfind scammy deals….the comments CAN be amusing to read….)
And I was about to grab the email that was posted in the message and “poof” it was almost instantly deleted.
I’m sure dealfind KNOWS they are dealing with shady companies.
Also if you look on the red flag deals forum, people there have posted what they received instead of the actual Vapur bottles that Dealfind did promise.
I am even telling local business people I know that have run deals with other companies not to deal with dealfind- they make almost any business look bad with the scammy deals.
Tried to cancell my order and this is the email I received from dealfind:
This seems shady that they are trying to sell fake goods imported from asia.
Thank you for your email.
We apologize for any confusion, the 32 GB SD Memory Cards from XSV 360 contains parts manufactured by Toshiba.
As per Dealfind’s standard refund procedure, we require 24 hours to notify the merchant of a refund request and investigate the situation. We will get back to you shortly!
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Best Regards,
Customer Satisfaction Expert, Processing
Dealfind
Phone: 416.631.6368
Toll Free: 1.888.320.6368
Fax. 416.946.1145
CANADA
250 Ferrand Drive, Suite 1503
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3C 3G8
UNITED STATES
560 South Winchester Boulevard, Suite 500
San Jose, California, United States 95128
@Dave, I am hoping to pick my two up tomorrow and I will use that program and post the results.
I have tried for two days to get through to no avail. No one should have to pay up front, wait a week and then have to waste so much time trying to redeem the vouchers.After reading the info on this site , finding out that they weren’t truthfull in the advertising of this product, I am not willing to take a chance on these very likely fake cards. So I called the 1888 number and got someone right away and they said there would be no problem canceling and getting a full refund on to my credit card.The lady said you have 30 days and sometimes more if things are totally wrong. So heres hoping I get out of this silly mess. So far I have faith in the Dealfind policy, just disappointed deals like this can get through them without proper verification.
i can’t even get on the website to redeem the card anyone else having this problem?
I sent email to Dealfind on 11/19:
Dear Dealfind….
Perhaps you are not aware of the notice that XSV 360 is posting on their website.
Important Note: Please note that all coupons are entered into our system once the deal is over on the Deal Provider’s website – The codes are only provided to us once the deal is finished – and that a single coupon can be used per order.
Please allow 24-48h once the deal is finished for Voucher code input into the database
Therefore, your statement: “enjoy the trip to XSV 360 whenever you feel like it.” is totally untrue.
Apparently a dealfind/XSV360 customer must wait another 6-7 days (Time remaining 161h 01m 17s) for the “deal” to end before any attempt at ordering the product can be done. ALSO…..who is keeping ALL the money that is being taken from customer bank accounts during this 6-7 day time ??
Something is really “not right” with this “deal”
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Dealfind responded: Thank you for your email.
Unfortuantely, there was no text in the email.
Please let us know how we can assist you :)
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I should have know by their response that this deal just didn’t pass the “smell test”. I’ve now tried to go onto XSV360’s website…can’t seem to get in (hummm) “waiting for response” — I’ll now contact Dealfind for an “immediate refund”.
Thank you mike. Please do post your experience as soon as possible so that others can be guided.
@Joe
Haven’t really tried to cancel, but I did buy 2 of them and redeemed the vouchers (Took me forever to redeem them. The XSV website looks like it was built by a 3 year-old). Now I am just waiting for the delivery. We’ll see how long it takes and if they are actually delivered, the quality of the SD cards.
A very easy way to test the capacity (assuming you have a USB CF flash card read (that can read/write 32gb)) is create a directory on your laptop / PC containing 32gbs of data (anything, mp3s, movies, system files, anything). Copy the complete directory onto the USB drive. Run the free Windows program Windiff and select “compare directories” options and compare the directory on the PC versus on the USB drive. It will do a file by file comparision of all 32gb of files and report ones that are different. Obviously there should NOT be a single difference or there is something wrong with the CF card.
Note this doesn’t test the class 10 speed aspect of the card.
Could someone who has the card please do the windiff test and let me know what happened ?
Has anyone had any success in cancelling their order and having their credit card either not charged or refunded with Dealfind before redeeming their voucher on the XSV360 Website?
Thanks.
@S D, thankyou for pointing out my spelling mistake, I did indeed mean defamation.
Thanks for the reply, I am picking mine up on Monday as they are located near where I live, I intend to load them up right away with movies, music etc, to the full capacity, I will let you know how it turns out, if indeed they do not work, then not only will I be getting a refund but I will also report them to the applicable agency that deals with frauds.
@Mike. I think you mean defamation(be it slander(spoken) or libel(written)).
@Mike: there is more than enough evidence in the article showing that those cards sold by XSV360 and DealFind are fake… Also XSV360 are selling many other scam products…
I have only one question to ask as I have ordered two of these, have you actually go hold of the cards and tested them yourselves? if not how can you say they are fake? I would be careful that XSV360 or dealfind doesn’t slap you with a law suit for derformation. Always test something out and then give an opinion, they are selling 32gb cards class ten for as low as $35 on a major computer parts seller in Canada, so perhaps this deal is in fact legit?
Thank you for this post. Dealfind is partnering with scammers and get-rich-quick service providers, and is destroying their business model in the process.
In their favour, Dealfind is excellent and pleasant at refunding your money within 30 days. Against them, they re-up with some service providers who are known to be screwing people over. I can only assume Dealfind is happy to get the money from people who don’t bother to try and redeem their vouchers within 30 days, and therefore are ineligible for refund.
I’m naming 2 businesses here, so people who google before buying will hopefully avoid falling into the same trap I did: Jakob Isaak London, and Heritage Painters (London). Both sold vouchers for eavestrough cleaning for $79. Jakob Isaak I bought in May, never even returned a call to set up an appointment, after 2 weeks I contacted DealFind to get my money back. They had another promotion run with Dealfind about a month later.
Heritage Painters and Services recently offered the same deal. Me being stupid, I bought it. 2 of my friends did also. All 3 of us had the owner Brian tell us off or hang up on us. They were supposed to be here this morning, but nobody has shown. It is now 5:30 PM. When my husband called, Brian told him we are getting a deal, so we should just suck it up. If they aren’t here tomorrow morning we will get our money back, but we need this work done! I feel stupid that Dealfind sucked me in again.
These businesses are stupid, because they are creating enemies in the community. I know I will tell everyone at work not to contract these businesses for any services. And here I am on a message board warning others away. You can’t treat people like that in a competitive market. You have to respect your customers.
I know I probably sound like a crazy internet commenter, but we are nice people, just want to get what we paid for…very disappointed with the whole thing…
Well this sucks. I bought 2 myself and thought that this was such a pretty good deal and shared it with many people I know. Looks like I will now have to give them a heads up.
Thanks for this post/blog.
You can even check on the Vaput facebook and they did reply to my comments about XSv there too, as well as a email to me.
I think it is hard to trust XSV after they even sell one or several other “fake” items.
The thing with Dealfind though, is it is obvious they delete many comments. But I still can’t believe they actually emailed me about that.
Thanks a lot Rachel for all these information! Very interesting. People should definitely know about this!
XSV360 is a total scam…
I’ve also seen DealFind removing comments which may negatively affect sales.
Regards,
Trueler
@Deal Seeker: The problem and motive are obvious here…
1) Scamming people is not good.
2) People want to buy what is featured, i.e. 32GB branded SD card which has retail cost around $100. Instead XSV360 and DealFind are selling piece of crap which can probably be bought for less than $10 at eBay or much less through alibaba-like resources.
3) Lie from DealFind and XSV360 on discussion board to boost sales + removing comments which may negatively affect sales
Trueler
Info on the fake Vapur bottles and XSV:
http://forums.redflagdeals.com/fake-vapur-bottles-dealfind-deal-anyone-buy-those-1099012/
I was just about to get the water bottle deal that is listed on Dealfind as I was told you could get actual Vapur bottles or Water 2 Go bottles.
Thought I would check the Vapur site to see if they had any good deals there and what the price of a single bottle was and after reading more about these bottles I think the XSV260 ones are fake.
The Vapur site shows that the logo is in solid writing on the real model, XSV360 has writing not filled in.
Vapur has a “R” trademark, XSV360 does not.
Vapur has a translucent lid, XSV360 lid looks white.
Carabiner of Vapur bottle has logo on it, XSV bottles do not.
Also looking up the Hello Kitty bottles they had for sale on a earlier deal I almost bought, those come up as being made in China on some sales sites.
http://blog.vapur.us/?p=609
if you click on Additional images you can see the Vapur bottles in a drawer and they look more like the fakes on Vapur’s blog.
Am I correct in my thinking these bottles are fake?
Just thought I would post this in case anyone did get these bottles.
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Dealfind went as far as telling me I would be getting REAL Vapur bottles in the 6 for $25 deal they had and that I just had to contact XSV360 about it.
How much more can they lie??
http://forums.redflagdeals.com/dealfind-does-not-post-negative-comments-their-vendor-contracts-read-1102711/
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I posted a question and comment on Dealfind earlier today- it was just a shipping question for the computer deal.
Also I had put down to find out the cost to return an item you can find that online on Canada Post’s website.
Instead Dealfind somehow decides my comment is “negative” and pulls my comment , along with those of every person who asked how much duty was, is there tax, can the PC tablet be used in French?
What is the return policy- they deleted pretty much every question on this deal.
Then they send me this interesting email. Kind of surprized, but not really.
Dealfind just admitted to me that they do not post negative comments about their vendors as it is in their sales contract with them.
Funny thing is I did not even ask about this and was not expecting a reply of any kind.
I am tempted to buy a Dealfind deal for a local dance school, but don’t really want to deal with Dealfind.
Here is the email they sent me:
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Thank you for your post.
Unfortunately we had to delete your post on the discussion board. Our posting board is intended for Dealfind customers to post questions that pertain to the deal of the day. It is not a forum for discussing personal or past experiences.
We apologize if you think the ad that we are promoting is misleading, however, it goes against our contractual obligations to host negative comments on our site.
If you would like to request a refund for a voucher purchased on our site we do have a 30-day refund policy. All you need to do is send us an email to support@dealfind.com.
We hope you understand!
Best Regards,
Samantha
Customer Satisfaction Expert
Dealfind
Phone: 416.631.6368
Toll Free: 1.888.320.6368
Fax. 416.946.1145
CANADA
250 Ferrand Drive, Suite 1503
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3C 3G8
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This is the email I was sent ^^^
Hi,
I was going to buy another deal from XSV360 and did my research as I had my suspicions that they were selling “fake” products.
This was for the Vapur water bottles- Dealfind even went as far to tell me that the bottles were made in New York.
When I looked it up online the hello kitty bottles they were selling are on all the Chinese cheap sales sites.
Also after contacting Vapur bottles through their facebook they sent me a email linking to their blog on how to spot counterfeit bottles.
Along with a message stating their product was trademarked and they would be contacting XSV about this issue (the email did say a lot more…just do not want to print it).
Dealfind also does not like to answer about the deals they sell- their main line is to say “this is a good deal and running out soon, but now and we can refund if you do not like it later”.
-that is their solution to every question I’ve seen lately.
XSV is also selling fake Gilette- 32 cartriges for $32?
the cheapest by luck I got for Gilette last year was 8 cartriges, 1 razor and 2 bottles shave gel for $14…was in a holiday package on clearance shelf at the drugstore.
This was from Shoppers Drugmart- they do have some very good sales quite often,but it varies by store.
But back to the topic of Dealfind.
I have posted many product questions and they just delete the good/valid questions and leave the dumber questions up-like only shipping questions.
I had a few questions about the “water tube” dealfind was advertising and the safety of ingredients and that was taken off their board.
Also dealfind actually sent me a email stating it is in their contract with the companies they represent that they will not post any negative questions or opinions and will only post positive things from the vendor only.
I will send you that in a email,just for proof.
I did post that on the RFD message board a few weeks ago also.
Thank You,
Dealfind sent out a $5 off any deal and I thought for $24 this might make a great gift. I started looking into this product and knew something was wrong.
Thanks so much for the info. I am going to keep my money.
What is the problem here, the money dealfind and xsv are making? or warranty issues? Its a great deal for $29.99 comparison research is pretty easy to determine. Plain and simple it is a 2gb card upgraded to 32gb from Asia all other specs are in tach such as the class 10 and HC specs and write and read speeds. I am sure a company is not going to sell 8000 plus cards with 8000 plus complaints.
mmmmm…not sure what the motive of this report is?
@ john wilson:
I think media won’t help here at all rather than advertizing DealFind and XSV360, like it was with “The Butchers” and “Deal55″…
Thanks for advice :)
Trueler
@ Keith (or Steven?!):
I have an update for this:
http://trueler.com/2011/11/20/fake-memory-card-xsv-360-dealfind-scam/#update
Unfortunately the “Toshiba chip inside” is also fake…
“XSV360 have been taken advantage of by customers in the past” – actually the other way… with so many scam products on their website…
Beware!
Trueler
if what is written is true forward this to the media.
the newspapers and tv stations will love this story especially with the amount of people that have bought this card already over 10,000 sales and still counting.
Hey guys. I read your post then went back to the discussion forum on Dealfind.com. It looks like XSV360 published a photo of the card after they broke one open to prove that it has a Toshiba chip inside. I also called and spoke with the customer service at XSV360 and they said their return policy is short because they have been taken advantage of by customers in the past and this is to protect them from that type of activity. They said if there was a problem at all with the card functionality to let them know and they will gladly replace it.
Just thought I’d share my findings with everyone. I’m going to give the card a try and will let everyone know my experience.
Thank you for the insight and your research.
Cheers!
Steven
Toshiba products imo are crap to begin with.
When you are storing data or pictures on a memory stick or card do you really want to screw around with saving a few bucks if there is a chance the card will corrupt and you will lose your data or pictures ?
People should wait till they go on sale at Staples which carry only real products and the sales can be quite good.
@bryan: “PNY” cards sold by XSV 360 are also fake.
Regards,
Trueler
Thank you for posting this ! I actually searched and read your post BEFORE purchasing the voucher, I was ticked by the “powered” by Toshiba. Looks like I will NOT buy it.
I just spoke with XSV360…
the cards are not from toshiba, they are from PNY:
http://www.xsv360.com/32_GB_SDHC_Class_10_Memory_Card
so the card received from xsv will not even look like the image used by dealfind in anyway. it does seem pretty sketchy.
Deal find will provide refunds if desired.
Thank you for posting this, I am one of the one who bought the voucher. I’m trying to cancel the order with Dealfind. Should have done some research. It’s too good to be true. Powered by Toshiba is not mean MADE by Toshiba.