Why I (Now) Dislike Freecom

I had previously had no gripes with Freecom at all. I owned an 8gb pendrive and a 16gb by them, both of which functioned perfectly for some time.
Today however, I found that my 16gb pendrive is totally dead, formatting does not fix it as the partition shortly disappears again.

Fortunately the 8gb of data that was on there is mostly backed up in other locations (thank you dropbox).

I will probably replace the now dead pendrive since having 16gb of storage capacity in the pocket is rather convenient.

I will definitely not be purchasing a Freecom pendrive.

This opinion may seem a little harsh, but at the time of writing this I am rather bitter about the loss of my data (regardless of the backup).