[Coco] Ebay IC's quality

[Louis Ciotti]

E-Bay really has declined recently.  I just sold a busted Galaxy S4, and it took two tries because the first winner was obviously a fake/scammer.  Location of the person was said to be California, e-mail address was a .fr yahoo account, last name started with a "2" not a letter...  still e-bay maid me wait a week to try and get payment.

Prices for items have gone through the roof imo, and the fees to sellers is plain robbery, but sometimes there really is not much of a choice.

E-bay is not the only place people misrepresent what they are selling.  I recently purchased an older MacBook to run OS-9 on it, and from the photos it look in nice shape, was told it was 100% operational.  I got it, the space bar does not work, and it did not have one screw holding the case together.  And this person sellls a lot of stuff on the Low-End Mac list.  I just chaled it up as a never again experience since it was so cheap, and I really did not want to deal with attempting to get my money back.


On Feb 12, 2014, at 09:19 AM, Steve <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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