That's such a lie. Even with the mail-in-rebates that pop up every once and a while, SanDisk is gonna be at least half again as expensive as other brands without a rebate, and usually at a much lower speed rating. When you compare them at normal pricing, SanDisk is easily two to three times as expensive.

Now, that's not to say that they don't make quality stuff, just that their prices reflect this quality a little more intensely than most.

Looking at the slightly bogus statistics of newegg reviews on Transcend flash memory, you can see that by and large, most people don't have a lick of trouble with their Transcend cards. Individually, some people just get stupidly unlucky.