I bought these cpu's knowing there was a 95% change they were fake. I wasn't worried about getting my money back because paypal and ebay protect buyers well,and worst case my credit card company would of went after him if needed. Of course on the off chance i was wrong and they were real then WOO HOO!
Unfortunately they were fake. i had my money back in 3 days,so it was worth a try.
You are right though bill, it is becoming a really bad problem. Its why i try and mainly deal with certified chip brokers that test the parts.It seems any parts worth anything are being faked these days.
Another sad thing is our beloved motorola parts with gold in them are all being scrapped by the toms now since the price of gold is up. All the gold chips amiga people need etc will become scarce soon.
They are getting more clever at pushing their fake goods, many of the china sellers establish someone in the usa to use as a shell ebay seller.
Your bluray experience is a perfect example.
Mech
I'm not really surprised that this finally bit one of us. And I expect the situation to only get worse. Coutnerfeit semiconductors has become a huge problem. I think sometime last year newegg dropped one of their suppliers because customers were getting fake chips that were nothing more than poor die-cast molds of CPU chips, expensive ones. The fan inlcuded was little more than a plastic block with a sticker on it. Counterfeit parts have affected how big companies do purchasing, with new industries coming up to provide verification services. Some fakes are simply pulls marked as new parts. Some things get relabelled, as it seems was done in this auction. Some things get relabelled as completely different products than what the die is. Some packages a re cleaned and relabelled to look new. Some things are repackaged. Some things probably don't even have die in the package. I bought a very cheap compared to elsewhere Bluray drive off Ebay, claiming to be whatever brand/model, but all the brand/model labelling on the thing was blacked out. Looks like it had said what I would expect it to, as you could sortof make out the original labelling through the censor blocks, but I do have to assume this was a factory reject salvaged by the seller, which is another popular counterfeit practice. It worked OK as a reader and to burn DVD disks, never have put a blank bluray disk in it, and now that laptop has died so I'll have to get an external case for the drive to find out. In time, I won't really trust any ebay from China stuff, though it looks like that auction was located in USA.
