[Coco] Ebay IC's quality

[Steve]

Always check the reviews before buying is what I always say.
There are too many flags in those negative reviews. (Like "sells used 
capacitors as new".)

On 2/12/2014 6:02 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> It's not the first time I had problems with scrap IC's sold on ebay.
>
> My first problem appeared with commodore 64 SID chips. A lot of 10
> chips only 5 weren't completely dead and among those 5 none of them
> were perfect. Some had one blown channel or bad filters.
>
> Yeterday debugging my new wordpak2+ card I found a short circuit on
> dram lines: RAS and AD7. I tested all connections, removed 9958,
> removed all DRAMs and I found a bad 4464 DRAM with short circuit. Then
> I replaced it for another dram from same lot (bought on ebay) and
> bang: other 2 pins were shorted too.
>
> Then talking to Daniel I found that the VDPs I just bought are not in
> fact V9958s but a V9938s. There weren't V9958 in 1984. These chip were
> rebranded:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/261031498657?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
>
> Ebay is a scrap and fake IC's paradise. Take care when buying cheap IC's
>