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SanDisk Ultra microSDXC A1 512GB, 120MB/s Read - $57.90

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[Amazon.ca] SanDisk Ultra microSDXC A1 512GB, 120MB/s Read - $57.90

Amazon currently has a deal on the 512GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC for $57.90, a savings of $12.10 or 17% off. This is all time low price on Amazon, according to Keepa and is sold by 3rd party but handled and shipped by Amazon so should have no issues with returns through January 31, 2023.

From Amazon:

  • Ideal for Android smartphones and tablets, and MIL cameras
  • Up to 1TB to store even more hours of Full HD video
  • Up to 120MB/s transfer speeds let you move up to 1000 photos in a minute [32GB-1TB]
  • Load apps faster with A1-rated performance
  • Class 10 for Full HD video recording and playback


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Please put A1 in title
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Beware everyone.. Not shipped AND sold by amazon. Potential fake.
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domo325 wrote: Beware everyone.. Not shipped AND sold by amazon. Potential fake.
Nice catch
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Andro wrote: Nice catch
OP literally stated it in the post...
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domo325 wrote: Beware everyone.. Not shipped AND sold by amazon. Potential fake.
Fwiw I ordered from this seller a few times and had no issues. Extreme Pro SD cards.

If you do get a fake, report it. The FNSKU is unique to the seller's product and will let Amzn know the seller has counterfeit issues.
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blurx wrote: OP literally stated it in the post...
I literally missed it, that post was a good reminder I guess.

Bolding/Highlighting 3rd party would be useful.
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Read transfer speed might be 120MB/s but write on 250GB version is only 20MB/s. I would get the 400GB extreme version for $65 in the Costco store ($70 online) or wait for it to go on sale.
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domo325 wrote: Beware everyone.. Not shipped AND sold by amazon. Potential fake.
Since this is handled and shipped by Amazon (as outlined in the OP) one doesn't have anything to worry about as returns as free and easy through January 31, 2023 if this card doesn't hold up.

Regardless of the source (as you can get fakes from anywhere), one should *always* test new microSD cards with h2testw. This will verify read / write / capacity of any SD card on the market. A 3rd party seller can indeed be less trustworthy than direct from Amazon, Best Buy, etc... It really doesn't matter much as long as the price is right, one tests the drive to make sure it's legit and one can easily return it if its not.

H2testw by Harald Bögeholz
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peteryorkuca wrote: Read transfer speed might be 120MB/s but write on 250GB version is only 20MB/s. I would get the 400GB extreme version for $65 in the Costco store ($70 online) or wait for it to go on sale.
It depends on use case, of course. This 512GB Ultra writes at around 30-35 MB/s and consistently reads at over 100 MB/s. That is more than capable enough for a Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, et al. I wouldn't put this in an application where you were recording 4K consistently, of course, but in other use cases, specially where high capacity matters and with mostly heavy reads, it'd be a very good fit.
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Claims to be the Sandisk store but sold by ABCTech?

RFD'ers don't let other RFD'ers by Sandisk from Amazon!!!
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Only REAL way to know you're getting legit is to price match at a local store like Best Buy or Staples. Can't trust Amazon NOT to mix in knock offs with the originals.
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KenAdams wrote: Claims to be the Sandisk store but sold by ABCTech?

RFD'ers don't let other RFD'ers by Sandisk from Amazon!!!
KenAdams wrote: Only REAL way to know you're getting legit is to price match at a local store like Best Buy or Staples. Can't trust Amazon NOT to mix in knock offs with the originals.
As I stated a few posts above, the only REAL way to know you're getting legit, from anywhere, not just Amazon:

H2testw by Harald Bögeholz
https://www.heise.de/download/product/h2testw-50539

With a free and easy return policy until January 31, 2023 there is ZERO risk to buying from this seller on Amazon since it's handled and shipped by Amazon... thus covered under their guaranteed, no questions asked returns.

As to you falsely asserting that one "can't trust Amazon NOT to mix in knock offs with the originals"... that is HIGHLY unlikely. Yes, some shady 3rd party suppliers directly sell knock-offs on Amazon JUST AS THEY DO via other online stores... but Amazon doesn't "mix" in or somehow contaminate their "legit" supply with these knock-offs. Thats a wives tale and urban myth, not a reality, at least on any widescale basis considering how Amazon's mostly automated FCs actually work. If you believe otherwise, I'd love to read any actual published articles you have that describe how that kind of mix-up has or ever could have worked at Amazon. I can near guarantee one hasn't been written because their FCs and methodology are precisely designed to avoid exactly that.

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Elrondolio wrote: As I stated a few posts above, the only REAL way to know you're getting legit, from anywhere, not just Amazon:

H2testw by Harald Bögeholz
https://www.heise.de/download/product/h2testw-50539

With a free and easy return policy until January 31, 2023 there is ZERO risk to buying from this seller on Amazon since it's handled and shipped by Amazon... thus covered under their guaranteed, no questions asked returns.

As to you falsely asserting that one "can't trust Amazon NOT to mix in knock offs with the originals"... that is HIGHLY unlikely. Yes, some shady 3rd party suppliers directly sell knock-offs on Amazon JUST AS THEY DO via other online stores... but Amazon doesn't "mix" in or somehow contaminate their "legit" supply with these knock-offs. Thats a wives tale and urban myth, not a reality, at least on any widescale basis considering how Amazon's mostly automated FCs actually work. If you believe otherwise, I'd love to read any actual published articles you have that describe how that kind of mix-up has or ever could have worked at Amazon. I can near guarantee one hasn't been written because their FCs and methodology are precisely designed to avoid exactly that.
The only thing HWTest can tell you is that the memory card you have is of the correct capacity and expected R/W performance. It can NOT tell you if the micro SD card is genuine. Nothing can unfortunately.

There is more to a genuine card than speed/capacity. The biggest risk is the QUALITY of the flash chips used in the card. This will have an impact on the lifetime/endurance of the card. A crappy knockoff can perform just as well as the original, but it might die after a few days of use. The only sure way to avoid knockoffs is to avoid Amazon altogether.

It is a well known fact that Amazon co-mingles their stock with third party seller stock. This is not a old wives tale. The way their FC work is that they have a bins for SKUs of different products. If a third party wants to sell an identical product, they ship the inventory to Amazon and it gets mixed in with the amazon stock.

Yes there is a chance that best buy or costco will get a counterfeit item through the supply chain. But the odds of that are much lower than Amazon who co-mingles their stock.
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goozy1 wrote: The only thing HWTest can tell you is that the memory card you have is of the correct capacity and expected R/W performance. It can NOT tell you if the micro SD card is genuine. Nothing can unfortunately.

There is more to a genuine card than speed/capacity. The biggest risk is the QUALITY of the flash chips used in the card. This will have an impact on the lifetime/endurance of the card. A crappy knockoff can perform just as well as the original, but it might die after a few days of use. The only sure way to avoid knockoffs is to avoid Amazon altogether.

It is a well known fact that Amazon co-mingles their stock with third party seller stock. This is not a old wives tale. The way their FC work is that they have a bins for SKUs of different products. If a third party wants to sell an identical product, they ship the inventory to Amazon and it gets mixed in with the amazon stock.

Yes there is a chance that best buy or costco will get a counterfeit item through the supply chain. But the odds of that are much lower than Amazon who co-mingles their stock.
The odds of having a counterfeit that is sold and shipped by Amazon are far, far lower than you are implying, for two very important and overlooked reasons:

1) they fully and completely randomize their product storage, which is wholly unique to Amazon
2) their automation scans each product bar code multiple times through their picking process: from the moment it is unloaded, to before its binned, to after it's picked and before it's sorted then again before its packaged

Their randomization is wholly unique in supply chain management that I'm aware of... I think they invented it. Thanks to randomization, the odds of having more than one SD card in a single bin is extremely low! Add in the many bar code scans throughout the process, including the moment it's picked from the automated bin's arrival, the odds of "co-mingling" are extremely low.

Point is: it *is* an old wives tale that their products get "co-mingled" together. If you have any published articles that show this actually happens at Amazon, please post it (the odds are also low that you can). If this were an actual issue, I guarantee a company the size of Amazon would have *many* actual, published articles detailing how this happens. Instead, we get floods of posts like yours that claim, like you, that its "well known" to be so. That's exactly how urban myths and wive's tales are born and spread.

Having said all that: what is absolutely certain is Amazon's 3rd party sellers sell fakes on Amazon all the time (just like Best Buy's 3rd party sellers, et al) and, due to Amazon's site design, most people don't even realize they're buying from a 3rd party seller! That's why you should absolutely make a point to avoid any 3rd party seller on Amazon when it comes to SD cards, even if it's fulfilled by Amazon. If you do purchase from a 3rd party due to a great deal, etc, the next point is even more important. Using H2testw is highly recommended for any SD card purchase you make, from any retailer, not just Amazon. If it passes the speed and capacity test, the odds of an SD card being a fake are extremely low: because it's too expensive for fakes to have chips in them that perform to spec and capacity!

Again, the odds of a fake supplier supplying fakes with both correct capacity *and* speeds at spec are extremely low. There's no money in it.

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