Made in China complaint, triggers CCP re-education response

Here's my original letter to the company; looking for advice. Before writing them, in trying to solve the problem myself, I found that both SD cards, and cams have known rates of failure; which led me to believe there's zero quality control.

Hi,
I've got two cams(brand name redacted). I've had them new in the box for a couple years in conditioned storage. Now, I'm finally getting ready to set them up, and am trying to use microSDXC Card with Adapter.
Neither of the cams(model redacted) are reading the cards. When I put the new SD Card in, the icon on the LCD screen, has an red X across it. When I turn the cams on without the SD card inserted at all, a large message across the face of the cam reads in red, "memory card missing".
Any advice? I'm off to buy SDHC cards in hopes that'll work, but in reading about all of this electronic crap, it's all out of China, and I'm guessing quality control out the window for at least the SD cards; is it the same for your trail cams? What do I do next?
Thanks in Advance,

Last Edited by BigNuts on 06/17/2021 12:49 PM

That's a fucked up response, for sure! They could have smoothed this over rather easily by helping you. This response was clearly intended to shove you into a corner and on defense instead. Personally, I would splash this all over the internet forums and groups that may use these cams. Go leave horrible reviews everywhere for this company.

Follow up with the SD cards though. Are they formatted properly?

If they still don't work, I would escalate this and demand a refund immediately. It shouldn't matter if it has been a couple of years. Defective is defective.

If the supposed American company doesn't comply, sue them in small claims court for defective merchandise and fraud.

Don't bother going all Karen on them directly - they clearly won't care. Send a return/refund DEMAND in writing. When they ignore you, sue them. (It must be in writing for the lawsuit.)

File a report with the BBB as well.

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Fuck 'em! This shit is unacceptable!

well duh you attempted to lecture them, they lectured you back.

now try to complain about )euoows when you write a letter to your mortgage company, you'll get much more than a letter in return

3 1-star bandits??? the CCP is strong here.....

I’d happily shop at a “Made in America” store if one was around, even if everything cost more. Trying to buy only American-made goods is too time consuming for most people. Although unlikely to ever exist, a Walmart-style store with USA merchandise would be very popular.

I agree, and would do the same; I remember Walmart of the early 80's advertised as all Made in America; then the kids took over....

Now, all things are made in China; yet they, the ruling CCP cohorts think we don't have a right to complain about their products, we buy! "Please let go of your prejudices, you are not qualified to comment on Made in China. ""

Helpful advice! One of the many reasons I come to GLP.

From what I read about SD cards, often times straight out of the box, many don't work. The game cam was designed to format the SD card itself.

I bought new SDHC cards, they're working, but obviously since some 'varieties' don't work, and aren't mentioned in the cam instructions, is at the least interesting.

Also to the point of me saying, 'made in china crap', aren't all consumer electronics produced there???? If it were American made junk, I'd have said, "Made in America crap"..

Manufacturers who produce substandard crap should be held accountable, but never mind, the CCP states we don't have a right to comment on things we have no choice, but to buy from them. Welcome to the new America.

I don't have a mortgage, but thanks for muddying the waters with off topic crap. Perhaps pay your mortgage on time, and you won't have any issues.

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Bullshit

China is one big scam and the crap they make never last. Buy local.

I agree, and it's how I try to do, but obviously China has a monopoly on so many manufacturing sectors.

OP has China Derangement Syndrome.

No Comrade, I expect to get what I pay for, and when that doesn't happen, I let the manufacturer know. Because of this, I always try to buy local.

Quality is now shit for everything, it doesn't matter where it's produced.

Europe, USA make a lot of garbage too.

We were the ones who invented "planned obsolence", mind you.

Why is this off-topic?

We're taught to hate CCP because it's said that you're not allowed to criticize them

Well try criticizing your own master (not their puppets) and see what happens

Those who live in the pot can always laugh at the kettle

Absolutely true. The snow shovel I bought last winter had a big label on it says 'proudly made in USA', broke before I could finish the whole driveway.

If one loves capitalism one has to embrace all the measures to maximize profit, including planned obsolescence, outsourcing, corner-cutting, etc. In true capitalism human is secondary.

I love a free market, not 'capitalism'.

chinese don't even trust their own china-made products, at least not those intended for export, they know it's junk. the rich typically import good stuff from overseas.

Careful with cameras. I bought some cameras a two years back that were phoning home to China and taking massive amounts of data.

I would go with you!

It would be great fun to spam all these ccp manufacturers

CCP is evil

Looks like they escalated your complaint up to top commissar rather quickly.

The fucked upness is real!

To me, it is a miracle SD cards work at all.
The technological leaps forward since I was young have been remarkable. I started out using a slide rule in my engineering classes.

Then a 10 mb hard drive was this large device that was the size of a breadbox (or 2).


SD cards were developed by high tech companies in Japan and California. (Sandisk, Panasonic and Toshiba) I think Taiwan and S. Korea are also major makers and perhaps Vietnam as well.

Not sure if China is even a significant exporter of SD cards.

Are you sure China made the cards you are complaining about?

I grant you that the CCP is evil, but I don't think they are the cause of all evil in the universe, or if a bad SD card necessarily qualifies as evil. :)


Like I said, I think it is a miracle that the damn things work at all in the first place.

And even if it is a well made SD card, the slightest bit of static electricity, or voltage spike from the device you plug it into, or dropping it on the floor or getting it wet, or over heating, can wreck the card.
Or even simple age. SD cards only last so long, even if conditions are perfect.

When you have semiconductor components working at the scale of the atom, simple random shit happening like alpha particle strikes from the Sun can render it dead. Entropy is a harsh mistress. :)

There is a PDF download at this site of a short paper that is worth a read.
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Last Edited by JustmeTX on 06/18/2021 03:30 AM

There used to be one. Oddly enough it was called Wal-Mart.