Was reading and came across this, defective C64 chips having false markings put on and being re-sold via Ebay. BEWARE.

http://kevtris.org/Projects/sid/remarked_sids.html

And here:
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.ph ... pic=121058



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Stargunner

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Bingo.

I purchased a large lot of 6502s from what I thought was someone with a good reputation in the community and it looks like they are all remarked parts. I think the guy knows what hes doing since he has refused to talk about it and is still selling them on his web site.

So just a warning to anyone buying 6502s, it looks like there is a large supply of remarked fake chips being sold.




And then the counterfeit seller is named:

I got the same 6502's from Arcadechips.com and out of about 40 pcs I've had only 1 or 2 bad ones.
I never noticed the differences on the chips themselves until I just looked at them.
The information on my chips are all the same (but different than the ones in the picture) and the chip markings (circles, notches) are different too.


I really hate to name the guy but he appears to have no intention of making good.

The seller in question is Mark Capps @ arcadechips. I'm out a little under $300 over this so far.



Just a follow-up warning, the guy is selling 6532 RIOT chips with the same suspect markings, so steer clear.



So if any of us got chips from there, they are most likely defectives and rebranded.

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If it's eBay, you can report him and get him shut down, right?

You can report him, but that won't guarantee a shut-down.

Multiple auctions, perhaps? No idea.

Was one of the things I came across so thought all our members should know.

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