I've been hearing a lot of bad things about hongkongsupersellers, suppliers of ICs and other parts. Title link takes you to the latest on GetLoFi. Here's a bit from somone on AH who wishes to remain anonymous. Consider yourself warned. Chipsforbrains on the other hand is apparently all good.
"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."
Sunday, May 21, 2006
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I've had good success with Chipforbrains as have many others. He offers a great service and great products at a good price.
ReplyDeleteChip for brains is two people.
ReplyDeleteOne, Quinton Fulsom, previously had several Ebay accounts and they were all closed due to negatives. Search through the AH archives to see all the bad press back then.
Only when his partner joined him did things get honorable.
Still, some of their parts aren't quite as good as they should be. Their Minimoog pots are horrible substitutes imho.
I applaud them for doing what they do though.
Many synths live today because of their efforts.