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From: Don McKenzie on 23 Apr 2010 16:50 ATmega Slugs Sparkfun just got lumbered with counterfeit ATmega328s: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=350 Makes for interesting reading. Check out the comments also. Cheers Don... -- Don McKenzie Site Map: http://www.dontronics.com/sitemap E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.dontronics.com/email Web Camera Page: http://www.dontronics.com/webcam No More Damn Spam: http://www.dontronics.com/spam These products will reduce in price by 5% every month: http://www.dontronics-shop.com/minus-5-every-month.html
From: Don McKenzie on 23 Apr 2010 16:57 Don McKenzie wrote: > > ATmega Slugs > > Sparkfun just got lumbered with counterfeit ATmega328s: > http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=350 > > Makes for interesting reading. Check out the comments also. just followed through a little more: http://www.hkinventory.com/public/ReportedCompanyDetail.asp?ID=710 name of the rip off company is: Shenzhen Henglian Electronics Co. Cheers Don... -- Don McKenzie Site Map: http://www.dontronics.com/sitemap E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.dontronics.com/email Web Camera Page: http://www.dontronics.com/webcam No More Damn Spam: http://www.dontronics.com/spam These products will reduce in price by 5% every month: http://www.dontronics-shop.com/minus-5-every-month.html
From: Bob on 24 Apr 2010 04:50 On 23 Apr, 21:50, Don McKenzie <5...(a)2.5A> wrote: > ATmega Slugs > > Sparkfun just got lumbered with counterfeit ATmega328s:http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=350 > > Makes for interesting reading. Check out the comments also. "Sparkfun sells counterfeit ICs" isn't a headline I would like to see if I was running a company... :) Surprisingly, some people actually seem to be buying them...
From: Frank Buss on 24 Apr 2010 05:00 Bob wrote: > "Sparkfun sells counterfeit ICs" isn't a headline I would like to see > if I was running a company... :) > > Surprisingly, some people actually seem to be buying them... Yes, of course: buy it for $0.50 and sell it for $5.00 on eBay :-) But the comments clarifies it: Sparkfun was very naive in thinking it could be used for soldering training and removed it very fast from their shop. -- Frank Buss, fb(a)frank-buss.de http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de
From: Ray on 24 Apr 2010 18:29
On 4/24/2010 7:00 PM, Frank Buss wrote: > Bob wrote: > >> "Sparkfun sells counterfeit ICs" isn't a headline I would like to see >> if I was running a company... :) >> >> Surprisingly, some people actually seem to be buying them... > > Yes, of course: buy it for $0.50 and sell it for $5.00 on eBay :-) > But the comments clarifies it: Sparkfun was very naive in thinking it could > be used for soldering training and removed it very fast from their shop. > Yeah probably no good for solder training either, probably won't tin properly etc |