Chinese ebay purchases, post your good or bad sellers

lolbou · Post by **lolbou** » 05 Apr 2009, 17:26

dread pierat wrote:"FOR BOSS Effect Pedal 20x12 1/4" Shaft SKIRIT KNOBS"[/i] from PARTSPIPE and they were also for 6mm shafts.

Metrics rule!

To be more serious, admit that it's easier to drill the hole up to 1/4" when it's 6mm than drilling it down to 6mm when it's 1/4"... One day I think we'll have to look closely for the plug diameter when buying jacks: 6.35mm or 6mm...

playon · Post by **playon** » 21 Apr 2009, 22:01

https://cgi.ebay.com/50-Value-1-4W-Meta ... dZViewItem

I wanted to mention this seller, he's in the USA but has a connection to Chinese mfg components. I just bought a variety of 2000 1% metal film resistors from him for $13 & they got here from China in under a week. I randomly checked several of them out the meter and a soldering iron and they are the real deal. There was a note in the package saying if I emailed them a Digikey part # they could beat the price on just about anything. Their email address is lathi.tan@gmail.com.

zzzapfizz · Post by **zzzapfizz** » 28 Jun 2009, 15:41

Had partspipe on my favorite seller list for a short while but have now deleted them.

Got a bag of these plastic stereo jack sockets from PARTSPIPE (similar to those used by Marshall and others) .
Totally useless. First the size of the nut is to small so there is no way one can fasten the jack housing to the chassis. And when one finally have have given up that and fasten the crappy thing with crazy glue one learn that the contacts doesn't have enough spring force to make proper contact, or hold the inserted jack in the socket.

...and no - The nut does not fit the broken Marshall nut

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Also ordered a bag of Boss type knobs. They are a tiny bit larger then the original Boss knob used on they're pedals.
Nice knobs but stay clear if ordering for production or resale. Packaging is pore and most of them are scratched.

RnFR · Post by **RnFR** » 07 Jul 2009, 08:35

anybody buy these resistors yet? i was going to spring for a new breadboard as it's a decent price, and i thought i might see what the deal is with these. it's kind of sketchy though as they are listed as carbon film, but the picture shows blue resistors like metal films. maybe they were meant to pass off as metal film, but they decided to go straight? although they do talk about how to ID proper metal films as well. maybe i'll just go with those.
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shit! they only have 1W metal films!
https://cgi.ebay.com/50-Value-1-4W-Carb ... 2|294%3A30

https://cgi.ebay.com/2-860-Tiepoint-Sol ... dZViewItem

WLS · Post by **WLS** » 08 Jul 2009, 15:31

I bought some 3dpt stomp switches from PARTSPIPE.

After receiving them I installed one in a pedal I was buliding and the switch would occasionally fail to engage and the LED connected to it would stay dimly lit in the off position (Bleedthrew).

I emailed them but no reply. I just don't buy from them any more.

I too sell rare hard to find items on ebay from time to time but I will test my ICs prior to selling them. Even though I am not a vendor most vendors do not go through this process.

Reason being that it is time consuming and offsetting the price of bad chips raises the price that you have to sell them for. Not alway's agreeable to the consumer.

But I feel that buying a untested ICs no matter how good they look cosmeticly does not insure functionabity.

I realize as a consumer that even a tested chip does not alway's mean that when I receive it it will alway's work but as a seller I alway's feel better knowing that what I am sending you has functioned and should function as long as I am responsible enough to take the necessary precautions in preparing the chip for shipping.

So buying electronic componets is like the lottery and how lucky do you feel today.

Bill

IvIark · Post by **IvIark** » 08 Jul 2009, 16:16

RnFR wrote:anybody buy these resistors yet? i was going to spring for a new breadboard as it's a decent price, and i thought i might see what the deal is with these. it's kind of sketchy though as they are listed as carbon film, but the picture shows blue resistors like metal films.

I got a big bag of 1/4 watt blue resistors from sureelectronics and they were carbon film as advertised by them. The seller actually told me all carbon film resistors are blue in China which really freaked me out.

Dirk_Hendrik · Post by **Dirk_Hendrik** » 12 Dec 2009, 15:38

Tipped on DIYstomps.com.

Seller leemoom611 managed to sell me genuine and working MN3007's. (tested em in my CE-2) Reasonable shipping time and very chap (88 cents a piece!)

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 12 Dec 2009, 16:02

Dirk_Hendrik wrote:Tipped on DIYstomps.com.

Seller leemoom611 managed to sell me genuine and working MN3007's. (tested em in my CE-2) Reasonable shipping time and very chap (88 cents a piece!)

That can be true, UT Sourse quoted me $1 for piece with order of ten MN3007's

Dan N · Post by **Dan N** » 12 Dec 2009, 23:52

playon wrote:https://cgi.ebay.com/50-Value-1-4W-Meta ... dZViewItem

I wanted to mention this seller, he's in the USA but has a connection to Chinese mfg components. I just bought a variety of 2000 1% metal film resistors from him for $13 & they got here from China in under a week. I randomly checked several of them out the meter and a soldering iron and they are the real deal. There was a note in the package saying if I emailed them a Digikey part # they could beat the price on just about anything. Their email address is lathi.tan@gmail.com.

"Listings that have ended 90 or more days ago will not be available for viewing."

Got a seller's name? yallstore?

playon · Post by **playon** » 13 Dec 2009, 10:39

Yeah that was months ago... however if you look in my post that you quoted you will notice that the guy's email address is there.

The Rotagilla · Post by **The Rotagilla** » 15 Dec 2009, 02:59

IvIark wrote:Oh great, I just ordered 50 x 2.1mm sockets from him

Bought these as well and not impressed at all. Same issues as everyone else and I felt the contacts left something to be desired but I guess you get what you pay for. I now have a bunch of jacks for test builds.

dread pierat · Post by **dread pierat** » 16 Dec 2009, 11:49

lolbou wrote:
dread pierat wrote:"FOR BOSS Effect Pedal 20x12 1/4" Shaft SKIRIT KNOBS"[/i] from PARTSPIPE and they were also for 6mm shafts.
Metrics rule! To be more serious, admit that it's easier to drill the hole up to 1/4" when it's 6mm than drilling it down to 6mm when it's 1/4"... One day I think we'll have to look closely for the plug diameter when buying jacks: 6.35mm or 6mm...

I agree to the superiority of the metric system, but my information was about chinese ebay sellers, and the fact that PARTSPIPE advertises items as 1/4" when they are not. Also, I elect to discuss things to do with power tools outside of this particular thread.

I've checked my other PARTSPIPE parts, and they all seem to be B-stock and factory rejects. At least the package didn't contain bobcat http://www.xkcd.com/325/

Dirk_Hendrik · Post by **Dirk_Hendrik** » 26 Dec 2009, 18:45

While making positive comments on mr leeloom a couple af days ago (those were working MN3007's) this auction, and especially the photo, screams restamped chips:
https://cgi.ebay.com/10-LM308N-LM308-OP ... 27adf869eb

About everyting yells sandpaper

How can 2 chips with the same datecode be so different!?

As well, read this one: http://www.aeri.com/counterfeits.html
(I've posted it earlier in this thread)

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 26 Dec 2009, 19:00

You just scared shit out of me! I'm making group order of IC's soon, and I really don't want to get riped off, and sell you shit guys :/ Specially when I'm putting alot of money into this buy... I know UT guys are trusted, that was verified before, but who knows where they getting this bunch? Price of some IC's like 3007 are ridiculously low, I'm becoming fishy...

Dirk_Hendrik · Post by **Dirk_Hendrik** » 26 Dec 2009, 21:56

sinner wrote:You just scared shit out of me!

My pleasure....

Seriously,
The reason I did buy some 10 3007's from mr leeloom was the positive reference at DIYstomps, combined with, fishy as it is, the provided photo in the auction that shows a chip housing that's hard to fake. (the smooth outer edge with rough surface, look up the auctions and ye'll know what I mean).

But other than that, i'm very, very reluctant with any Chinese purchase on components that are tagged "rare", especially when I see no reason why that specific component shoyld be widely available in China and, apparently, nowhere else. Face it, low budget stuff containing chips like BBD's has been made for ages in taiwan, malaysia, indonesia, and similar Orient countries just as well. And, far before China was emerging as a manufacturing country for budget consumer electronics. EH went almost bankrupt because BBD chips were limited to Japanese manufacturers, not Chinese. China wasn't even on the map at that time.

All that means that possible surplus batches should come up from countries like those just as well.

But they don't... China only... and that's odd.

Go on with those 3005's. Just make sure that you've got the fine print covered as well and will get your money back in case of a scam. "they delay" is not good enough. Might be 3008's. And do decent sampling when recieved. Not the first in the ESD pipe only. "Tested by a certified company" is not good enough either. That type of testing is rotten expensive (just walked the line with a batch of mil-spec 8051 CPU's. We're talking US$ 100's per chip after the certifying process.. but, certified and resellable as such!)

IvIark · Post by **IvIark** » 30 Dec 2009, 23:12

Dirk_Hendrik wrote:Tipped on DIYstomps.com.

Seller leemoom611 managed to sell me genuine and working MN3007's. (tested em in my CE-2) Reasonable shipping time and very chap (88 cents a piece!)

Dirk, in the eBay auction the printing on the MN3007 looks very white and bright, were yours like that?

I just received some from him and the printing is a much more dull yellowy colour.

Scruffie · Post by **Scruffie** » 30 Dec 2009, 23:45

I got some from the same supplier IvIark, haven't tested them but they're varying in colour, I think it's due to the age of the individual chip, they don't look like fakes from what I can tell.

IvIark · Post by **IvIark** » 31 Dec 2009, 00:03

marmora · Post by **marmora** » 02 Feb 2010, 00:09

Bought a set of 160 ultra bright LEDs from seller advancedelectronics. They arrived at my door, in the US, in about 10 days.
The listing advertised UV LEDs as a part the set. When they arrived, the bag they're in was marked "purple". I thought there was a difference. So I tested them on some glow in the dark material and there was a good reaction, but the glow faded quickly.
I tested a couple of the colors and they aren't very bright. Some of the colors were very bright though! Just be sure to read the specs they post with the listing. All are water clear and brighter than standard LEDs though.
Shipping was free.

Greenmachine · Post by **Greenmachine** » 15 May 2010, 00:18

Made a purchase of resistors from sunpec and was really pleased.