The claim is the article is a piece of fabrication.
The author doesnt really know what hes talking about. My opinion is exactly this.
Also I clearly say, only professional, forensic examination can spot a fake IC.
The author, if by carelessness or on purpose, is spreading fear, is confusing online buyers, and is reducing confidence in the ebay online avenue.
It also should be said ebay is only a service broker and its individual sellers who have the item.
How the font looks like or if the print is good/bad quality says exactly nothing at all.
Makers of smoke and fire detectors dont buy off ebay and neither do Avionics companies so its propaganda hes mentioning lifesaving devices.
Its utterly crap to be honest.
That said, I have now ordered said pieces of CD4013 IC, which are said to be fakes, from a random chinese seller.
Upon arrival these will be examined and tested.
My guess either the author has created a makework of scaremongering on purpose and as such has committed a criminal act,
or hes just careless and has built the testing circuit improperly.
If these IC indeed dont work I will apologize, if they do work, I will order more samples and also test, and will demand
edit/removal, will consider legal action.
So, call it a gamble.
Save me from pointless replies and await my follow up post about "fake" CD4013 IC.
Again my point is a DIY user will have no ability to spot a fake IC, as the chinese are well able to fabricate high quality imprinting, besides, theres tons of parts. This is simply not affecting cheap ICs.
Only mass produced branded items and very expensive parts are affected by counterfeiting.
The typical variety of parts youre using for DIY is no longer mass produced for quite a while, besides inventories theres in fact products on our market imported from foreign markets.
Most chip makers dont seem to care territorial marketing bcz these parts used for DIY only represent a small fraction of revenue.
And anyway almost all consumer electronics I have seen after some years have failed the one or other way. Its nothing special.
Stereos were quite prone to blow up their transistors and require a costly repair, at the time when the appliance repair business was still thriving, no internet, must have been somewhere in the 1980s.
They have been designed close on the margin, bound to blow up some day and need a repair.
Then all this commodore crap was quite bad quality, after some years always some IC failed they had poor static protection, and the capacitors on the PCB the cheapest make you can think of.
Any generic chinese parts used for repair would be of much superior quality.
The tons of imitation Nintendos are a well known fact and dont ask me how they got the blueprints, I can think of it but its basement stuff and you dont want to know about it. In fact, these are counterfeit products even tough they work for their purpose. They arent usually sold on our western domestic market rather in Russia and south east Asia.
The author doesnt really know what hes talking about. My opinion is exactly this.
Also I clearly say, only professional, forensic examination can spot a fake IC.
The author, if by carelessness or on purpose, is spreading fear, is confusing online buyers, and is reducing confidence in the ebay online avenue.
It also should be said ebay is only a service broker and its individual sellers who have the item.
How the font looks like or if the print is good/bad quality says exactly nothing at all.
Makers of smoke and fire detectors dont buy off ebay and neither do Avionics companies so its propaganda hes mentioning lifesaving devices.
Its utterly crap to be honest.
That said, I have now ordered said pieces of CD4013 IC, which are said to be fakes, from a random chinese seller.
Upon arrival these will be examined and tested.
My guess either the author has created a makework of scaremongering on purpose and as such has committed a criminal act,
or hes just careless and has built the testing circuit improperly.
If these IC indeed dont work I will apologize, if they do work, I will order more samples and also test, and will demand
edit/removal, will consider legal action.
So, call it a gamble.
Save me from pointless replies and await my follow up post about "fake" CD4013 IC.
Again my point is a DIY user will have no ability to spot a fake IC, as the chinese are well able to fabricate high quality imprinting, besides, theres tons of parts. This is simply not affecting cheap ICs.
Only mass produced branded items and very expensive parts are affected by counterfeiting.
The typical variety of parts youre using for DIY is no longer mass produced for quite a while, besides inventories theres in fact products on our market imported from foreign markets.
Most chip makers dont seem to care territorial marketing bcz these parts used for DIY only represent a small fraction of revenue.
And anyway almost all consumer electronics I have seen after some years have failed the one or other way. Its nothing special.
Stereos were quite prone to blow up their transistors and require a costly repair, at the time when the appliance repair business was still thriving, no internet, must have been somewhere in the 1980s.
They have been designed close on the margin, bound to blow up some day and need a repair.
Then all this commodore crap was quite bad quality, after some years always some IC failed they had poor static protection, and the capacitors on the PCB the cheapest make you can think of.
Any generic chinese parts used for repair would be of much superior quality.
The tons of imitation Nintendos are a well known fact and dont ask me how they got the blueprints, I can think of it but its basement stuff and you dont want to know about it. In fact, these are counterfeit products even tough they work for their purpose. They arent usually sold on our western domestic market rather in Russia and south east Asia.