• When memory chips are made ONLY ABOUT 60% of them get their full memory installed;
• The 40% that do not get their full memory may work but they only have 40-65% of their intended memory; for example when Samsung makes 1 GB chips 40% of those chips may have only 400 MB-600 MB of real memory.
• These “Reclaimed Chips” are sold on the open market for 5 cents on the dollar! Originally the idea was to sell these chips to MacDonalds for cheap toys or into other products.
• An On-line Flash Drive company got very sneaky. They made a software that allows them to take these small chips and overwrite the memory...making a RECLAIMED 400 MB chip look like it was 1 GB (or any size they chose). It does NOT become 1 GB btw...

That is why we cannot match the on-line prices. Consider this - as a manufacturer of quality Flash Drives - if we could get the business by matching prices do you not think we would match prices...?

P.S.
I forgot to mention....Many reclaimed chips fail without warning.....Do you really want to lose your valuable data...?