11-08-2021, 10:13 PM
(11-08-2021, 10:06 AM)ppppenguin Wrote: Whatever you decide to buy, go to Farnell or RS (or Digikey or Mouser). They may have an occasional foul up but they will check their supply chains very carefully.
The sort of thing that happens is this.
Unscrupulous customer buys a load of parts from a reputable distributor, then a couple of weeks later asks if they can return them, bought in error. Distributor says yes, less a restocking/admin fee.
However, unscrupulous customer doesn't return the same parts, but returns fakes which the distributor accepts in good faith, and in turn supplies to another innocent customer, who thus ends up with fake parts from an authorised, reputable distributor.
Meanwhile, unscrupulous customer has succeeded in swapping crummy counterfeit parts for genuine originals, at a small cost. He can then sell these at full price, or supply as samples to win orders which are then fulfilled by more fakes.
There's a lot of tricks out there...
