cjs wrote:
1024MAK wrote:
Also these are normally sold as ‘new’, but they are actually tarted up used / secondhand / preowned “pulls”. So that alone is fraud.
Well, being sold as new certainly would be fraud, but I'm not sure you're correct that they're "normally" sold that way. I just checked the first eight results for each of "6502" and "R65C02" searches on AliExpress, and not one of them claimed that the parts were new.
I don’t use AliExpress much, so can’t comment on that marketplace, but certainly on eBay the number of listings for “new” or “brand new” outnumber any other category, for example
this search.
Mark