I recently noticed the review link on Ebay's flash drive page warning about cheap fake flash drives for sale.The article Titled: "BEWARE of FAKE 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB USB Flash Drives on eBay" This article from memory-r-us insists that 95% of flash drives on Ebay are fake! It goes on and suggest to not concider the positive feed back ratings from the company since most people give feed back in haste, before they can properly check out the flash drive. Well This article then suggests that you get a program from them to test the drive. Email me for the program. Once this was done I recieved a reply stating that there was such a demand for the program that they would now have to charge for the download due to copywright issues. Well the wright up changed to include a (there is a $2 fee) in the article shortly after that! Who do you think caused the BIG DEMAND for the program? I being the skeptic that I am couldn't believe that all those people that purchased flash drives are all to ignorant to give an accurate report. So I  went right out and bought two(2) different one gig (1 GIG) flash drives from two different suppliers. I paid $24.49 with shippage to Hawaii for each of them. That is about as cheap as you can get for a one gig flash drive that I've seen!  Any way since I wasn't going to pay $2.00 for a program that they were promising to give away previously  I devised a way to test the drives on my own. I simply, and you can too! Created a file on my computer with approximately 980mb; Which is what my flash drives has left after formatting. I used mp3 files (music), it takes up a lot of space and is easy to check to see if it stores or not. Just try to listen to it and if it won't play than it isn't there! Well The whole point is that if the odds are 95% against me getting a real flash drive, an actual real one GIG for a mere $24.49 delivered and not be counterfit is so much against the odds than how did I end up with Two(2) perfictly good flash drives? One is even waterproof!!! I'll tell you how! Flash drives are droppinng in price rapidly and there are some great deals out there. They are right on Ebay for the taking, so don't gets scared into buying a $2.00 program from a con on Ebay Don't get suckered into buying a program you really don't need!  ALOHA