Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920

That's a good one.

Someone somewhere must be laughing their heads off on that scam, and driving a slighly more upmarket car.

Be interesting to see if they catch the culprits.

Pretty unlikely.

I suppose there's a vacancy at Newegg for a store receivals officer now.

Called incoming inspection here in the colonies (:

And the they were probably the first employees fired when the economy tanked.

Incoming inspection is just an expense, after all. Heavens, it's almost as bad as engineering!

I spent 2 weeks in Japan once caused by the customer having incoming inspection where my employer did not. Out of the 60 PCs we shipped, they rejected 50, everything from memory parity errors (remember those?), bad hard disks to a keyboard that had two full stops and no comma. How many heads rolled from that fiasco? Exactly none. Did we start doing incoming inspection? No, we just sold to less choosy customers.

No... incoming inspection is old fashioned because you know we've this ISO 9k certificates on file and we only buy from other certified folks...

Sadly a very real misconception.

MrT.

Incoming inspection might not do the job. I met someone who bought a cheap 8 GB (or whatever) iPod in China, and when back home, he started loading it up.

Memory was full after 128 MB...

BR Ulf Samuelsson

Er, isn't that the point of incoming inspection! (acceptance testing) "Inspection" doesn't mean a quick visual for obvious physical damage you realise?

MrT.