>"Hugh Gibbons"
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>> Any gray market part is a risk, especially if it's out of production.
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>The risk is HIGHEST if the part IS in production and is popular with
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>See this page for a few examples:
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>...... Phil
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According to that site someone purchased some counterfit 2N3773's from Digikey.
"About three weeks ago we received a batch of transistors from Digikey... To be more specific: 2N3773's... (about... 100 of them at $1.25 ea.)"
Full story here:
I thought distubutors like Digikey purchased straight from the manufacturer? What the hell is Digikey doing buying off EBay? Digikey's mark-up is high, enough greedy bastards. I wonder what their response was?
I was worried about this happenning too but I checked some manufacturers list of trusted distrubutors and the places I usually use were on it.
I guess even though I only buy from Newark,Digikey or Mouser I'm going to have to start looking more closely at my parts.This will be difficult since 90% plus are tiny SM.