Thanks for all the info all, I have the same problem as most of you except my fake iedge took exactly 1 month to get to me, I ordered it when r4i.co.uk was having a sale got an email a few days later claiming they had run out of stock so I would have to ait for more, gotta wonder ever they had a lot of complaints or alot of people have fake cards and dont no it, the card eventuall got sent out 5 days later and didnt arrive after alot of unhelpful emails I got one back saying a replacements cant be sent out till 15 days after the original dispatch date, it was already 16 days but they cant seem to count had to wait 17th day to avoid an arguement over the phone.
I have now recieved the replacement card I knew there was something wrong as soon as I opened it, Ive only seen pictures but the writing on the card looked a little to dull to me, I put it into my dsi and instantly knew there was a spring im sure I noticed online that the iedge has no spring mechanism, and the iedge icon that showed up on the dsi screen showed have had a game icon on it they are suppose to down unflashed, I just assumed they pre flashed it for me.
I then went about trying to update the boot strap but kept getting a error message about the OS files being missing, I already had the official ones on my pc so I tried those same problem so went online to youtube and looked at the process of flashing the card but ok seemed easy enough I was doing it right but didnt check for a flashing L.E.D oh wait mines missing, I then went to the R4i.co.uk website and got the OS from there after which the card started and I got a message on the top screen showing me the link to
http://www.edgei-ds.cn/ the fake site.
I have since contacted them over the phone was treated very rudely am told that no flash cards have official websites anymore nintendo shut them all down and am also told that my research on that is wrong and she was basically implying that im an idiot without actually saying the words, she also stated that there were two colours of the cards both come from the same company and factory in china and she conveniently had them both infront of her, I wonder does she have all the stock infront of her incase of calls like mine.
I was instructed not to get the firmware from the address on the box but to get it from R4i.co.uk, I believe that the person was the same one I spoke to when both 4 previous times I called in for help about the original miss iedge card which I believe is abit weird so am left wondering are they working in a small office with one phone with boxes of fake flash cards scattered all over the floors.
During the call about the card being fake the woman explained I could send the card in to be tested to see if its faulty apparently she has them both and they work fine, my arguement aint if the card works its that its a fake.
My call didnt end in the best of ways I explained that she has been trained to lie and she said she is going to end the call now so I hung up the phone on her, I was quite annoyed I had to wait a month for a fake card.
After reader all the posts on here about this issue I have now in the process of a dispute over Paypal I original ordered the iEdge because of the bootscrap method of flashing it means it should be compatible with any firmware upgrades nintendo ever do for the DSi and im not excepting a fake.