A bit off-topic, but this bit of sleuthing by Bunnie is both awesome and a great insight into a piece of the industry you probably don’t know much about:

Second, the small vendors are entirely brazen about selling you well-crafted fakes. Typically, the bare cards are just sitting loose in trays in the display case; once you agree on the price and commit to buying the card, the vendor will toss the loose card into a “real” Kingston retail package, and then miraculously pull out a certificate, complete with hologram, serial numbers, and a kingston.com URL you can visit to validate your purchase, and slap it on the back of the retail package right in front of your eyes. Hey, it’s just like new!

The moral of the story is not necessarily that Kingston is a lousy vendor, though they may well be, but just how cut-throat their side of the industry can be, with tiny margins and sketchy practices in an effort to save pennies.