because that has been going on for at least 15 years (that I know of). When ebay was at it’s peak it was impossible to buy a good USB stick there because it seemed you could only get 512 mb sticks disguised as 32 gb sticks with a price in between the two and coming directly from China.
I’m glad the article linked to this one:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/low-performance-external-m2-nvme-ssd-found-to-have-microsd-cards-inside
because that has been going on for at least 15 years (that I know of). When ebay was at it’s peak it was impossible to buy a good USB stick there because it seemed you could only get 512 mb sticks disguised as 32 gb sticks with a price in between the two and coming directly from China.