microsd card, though I should’ve known better. Thankfully there’s plenty of complaints and test programs out there to check. And amazon gave me a refund (something worth noting - generally I’ve found amazon/ebay great at defending the buyer but the stories usually are with genuine sellers dealing with fakes)
Since then learned to be careful (e.g I don’t buy things that seem too cheap to be true, or things I’ve heard are have high fake chances like cr2032 batteries)
...also Adobe master collection CS6: it was a burned disc and in a printed DVD case and was priced at a point that was hard to tell (several hundred bucks but less than retail, think it had a return policy). Technically the license worked and it did work well for about 4 years. Then one day it didn't - from my understanding it was some type of educational license laundered into being sold as a regular product. At that point adobe was all SaaS anyway so from that perspective they solved the fake/laundering license problem.
Since then learned to be careful (e.g I don’t buy things that seem too cheap to be true, or things I’ve heard are have high fake chances like cr2032 batteries)
...also Adobe master collection CS6: it was a burned disc and in a printed DVD case and was priced at a point that was hard to tell (several hundred bucks but less than retail, think it had a return policy). Technically the license worked and it did work well for about 4 years. Then one day it didn't - from my understanding it was some type of educational license laundered into being sold as a regular product. At that point adobe was all SaaS anyway so from that perspective they solved the fake/laundering license problem.