[sdiy] Counterfeit chips

[Florian Anwander]

Hi

> Have some people ordered delay chips and got something else? 
I personally know it from a quite well known south german manufacturer 
that he had become victim of such a fraud (MN-Series).

also a guy named Ryan reported this on Analogue Heaven:
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Subject: [AH] bad trader - hongkongsuperseller
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 07:38:19 +0000
From: Plutoniq9  <plutonique9 at hotmail.com>
To: analogue at hyperreal.org

This guy sells a lot of out-of-production IC's on E-bay, I've seen him 
offer SSM filter chips & 4096-stage BBD IC's. The latter is what I got 
screwed on, it seems he's selling counterfeit (knock-off's) MN3005 & 
MN3205's........what I got was a 2048-stage BBD (still in production & 
cheap to buy) that had been relabled as a MN3205 (discontinued). What's 
worse, I've let him know they are counterfeits & about to send 'em back 
for a refund, but he is still selling them....so he's got no scrupples.

Both the MN3205 & MN3005's look fake comparing them to the panasonic 
chips I've got & Chip4brains stock.  He's sold a bunch of them already 
(in sets of 10), so I'm sure a lot of folks are gonna be pissd off.

I'll update if I ever get a refund...... buy from him at your own 
caution, I know some people have had positive experiences....but not I.

Cheers Ryan
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Florian