Cheapest R4 DS Card ?

We all like a bargain.  Goodness knows I do too.  When I am not here helping customers with their orders and answering questions, I often go out and try to find the cheapest deals for whatever products I am looking to buy.  So it’s not shocking to see that customers coming to us for R4 DS Cards are also looking for the cheapest R4 DS Card.

In all honesty, I don’t blame anyone for wanting to save a few dollars.  And really, when you’re comparing prices, you’re comparing the products too, apples to apples.  Saving $10.00 of your Nintendo DS because there’s an online coupon is something you should definitely take advantage of.  Unfortunately, that is NOT the case with looking for the Cheapest R4 DS Card available online.

Because of the plethora of cloned R4 DS Cards getting the cheapest one is not always the choice you should be making.  After all, the R4 DS Card allows you to play thousands of free homebrew games and applications, exploding your game library with games you couldn’t even buy in stores.   But gaming and music and ebook reading aside.  The fact of the matter is that you get what you pay for.

A copy or clone of the R4 DS card may seem like a great deal.  You can buy it for $9.95 – $14.95 instead of the regular price of the real r4 ds card.  The fact remains however that it’s a copy and a clone.   We’ve had reports of customers coming back to us after they’ve bought a clone r4 ds somewhere else – explaining how it blew a fuse in their Nintendo DS, and now they had to buy a new NDS console, and are buying an official and original R4 DS Card from us.  It’s not the kind of emails we like getting.  While we’d love to have YOUR business, we certainly don’t want you to end up with broken NDS or have issues with the R4 copy you ordered.

Below I’ll list some of the things you loose and won’t have access to.

• Clone R4 DS Cards don’t work with any of the new firmwares.  They can only use the oldest firmware because the new firmware checks to make sure you actually are using it on a REAL R4 DS and not a fake/copy R4 DS
• Using the oldest firmware means that right out of the box, you’ve lost support for about 30% of the newest files / applications.  Firmware updates are released to add support for newer files.  If your copy R4 DS can’t use the newest firmware, you can’t use the newest files.
• Build Quality is, in most cases, absolutely horrible.  We get samples of cards from many manufacturers in China. And to be honest, most of these clones that they try to sell to us as the real thing could snap apart in our fingers by just being bent the wrong way.  Yes, they really ARE that bad!
• An R4 DS is a one time investment.  My original R4 DS has been running strong for close to 3 years now.  Most clone cards have to be replaced sometimes just a few months into use.  Why?  Because they use refurbished parts of old / re-used components to cut down on costs.

So take notice.  Getting the Cheapest R4 DS Card is not always the best answer.  Paying close attention to whether you’re buying a potentially harmful clone that will do a whole lot more damage than just not work on the latest files.

In closing, if you’re going to out to Buy R4 DS – spend a few extra dollars and buy the real thing!

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