Cheapest prices for Sony Memory Stick?

[Demon Cleaner]

Why do you want to buy a stick from Sony anyway? I have seen some tests at a PSP forum, where a guy tested some different brands of sticks, and it happens that all run almost at the same speed. Even the Ultra or High speed sticks do not run faster as supposed.

[AlexJ]

The other risk with buying your memory cards off eBay

[Harrison]

Why do you want to buy a stick from Sony anyway? I have seen some tests at a PSP forum, where a guy tested some different brands of sticks, and it happens that all run almost at the same speed. Even the Ultra or High speed sticks do not run faster as supposed.

The main reason is quality. I've read many people saying their third Party Memory Sticks have failed after a year or less. In contrast I've not read of anyone saying their official Sony Memory Sticks have failed.

There are also two other reasons. Looking around I've noticed that official Sony sticks are exactly the same price as the third party sticks now, and the other reason is warranty. The Sony sticks come with a 5 year warranty.

The final reason is many people have mentioned compatibility problems with third party 4GB sticks and the PSP, whereas the official 4GB stick works fine.

[Submeg]

Yea, I wont touch 3rd party sticks, they are relatively new on the market, so you want to know that it works. For example, nowdays generic mem cards for the PS2 are easy to come by and you know they work...but I wouldn't have trusted them when it first came out...wouldn't want it to fail and lose all my gameplay...I would cry....

[Harrison]

The difference though is that you can easily backup the Memory Stick data from your PSP to your PC for safe keeping so it's easier to back it up. Not so easy on a PS2 where you would need a PS2 memory card reader for the PC to do this and they are hard to find.

[J T]

As Alex pointed out with his link, there are a ton of fake cards out there - and in some cases probably even the seller is unaware, the duplicates are pretty authentic looking.

There was a massive discussion on this over on the WoS forums a few weeks back, may (or may not) be worth a look? I'll post a link if I find it.