Okay, now i'm pissed.

SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!1

I bet it's too late.

Two other people have had the same issue in the last month, and I told them to contact RHS. I've no idea where those threads are, i'd struggle to find them. If I were you i'd either start a thread in the Acekard forum, or ask a mod to this thread there; one of those two posters may then notice your thread and you'll find out what RHS's response was.

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Thread #1 http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=231268
Thread #2 http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=230659

PM the OP's of those two threads, and you should get your answer provided they respond.

RHS has a 1 year warranty as does Acekard. Don't worry you're fine, they should honor it.

[quote name='Hakoda' post='2924690' date='Jun 19 2010, 04:39 AM']RHS has a 1 year warranty as does Acekard. Don't worry you're fine, they should honor it.[/quote]
RHS has a 90 day warranty.

[quote name='http://realhotstuff.com/faq.php']Q; What is the warranty of your products?

A; We offer 90 days warranty for all the flashcards we sell online. Some manufactures provide up to one year warranty, but that requires sending back the item to manufacture for replacement which takes long time since most of them are not US based.[/quote]

As for Acekard, the warrenty doesn't count as they are clones. Acekard will not honour the warrenty for clones.

[quote name='http://www.acekard.com/news.php']Once again, weoffer one year warranty for real AK2 and AK2i. You can contact your reseller for a replacement for any issue of the real AK2 and AK2i. We do not guaranty any safe use of firmware on clone AK2 and AK2i, and on your DS or DSi. We won't offer one year warranty for clone ones in any case. Please pay attention when you're buying Acekard. Thanks[/quote]

The issue is that RHS knew they were clones when they were selling them, I made sure they knew they were clones. Shame I got lynched by some members on here for it...

Well, I fired off an email to RHS. If they do not honor my return, They will lose my business for good.

Like I said in the other thread, 0ShippingZone said in another thread that they are RHS's supplier. They apparently supplied them these carts.

If RHS refund or replace, then it's likely they will seek a credit from 0SZ. So as a last resort, send 0SZ a polite email saying you brought your clone cart from RHS which 0SZ supplier and ask if there's any chance of them replacing it. Cut out the middle man so to say.

[quote name='0ShippingZone' post='2769167' date='Apr 19 2010, 08:26 PM']I think it is time for us to step up to explain the whole situation.

First of all, realhotstuff did not lie about it. We were the one provided them the information. We are the Acekard supplier for them. When we received the batch (AK2i) from the factory, we did notice the difference. We emailed Acekard to verify if they were real, never got response from them. The factory assured us that those were authentic and that's what we told realhotstuff. We decided to ship those out and informed realhotstuff about the situation. We did have customers experienced the same issue, but not a single one complained here.

When Acekard posted it saying those were clones. We asked the factory again and were told again they were not clones and they told us about the internal problem at Acekard. We told realhotstuff again about what we heard. realhotstuff tried to explained the situation and started a post here based on what we told them. They never expected that drew so much negative feedbacks. Their intension was to keep the customers informed about what they knew. They did not lie or treated their customers bad but we got wrong information.

I feel bad for the whole situation because we were the one who caused the problem. If anyone needs to take the blame, we have to take the blame. If anyone need to apologize for the problem, we are the one should apologize for it. realhotstuff trusted us while we trusted our supplier.

So, I am here to apologize to anyone (including realhotstuff) got into trouble caused by the clone AK2i. realhotstuff is nice enough for not mentioning our name in their posts.

realhotstuff is a fine company based on the experience I have with them. I am hoping to put an end to the whole issue. For those who blamed realhotstuff and accused them for lying, please don't. They did not lie. They made the statement of what we told them. We were the one who got fed with wrong information and we should be the one to take the blame.

If anyone would like to discuss the issue again, please PM me. I rather talk about it in private instead of giving realhotstuff troubles again.

Regarding the 2.1 SAVE issue. realhotstuff did not lie about it either. For whatever reason taking acekard long time to release a new version to fix the SAVE issue. It was not realhotstuff's problem. They simply tried to inform their customers about the situation. Also, we were the one who told them about new version coming out too.

Best regards and hope everyone understand the situation.

Jack at 0shippingzone[/quote]

The thing i've never worked out though, i've not seen a single person claim 0SZ sent them a clone cart.