shock__ wrote on 2021-02-18, 11:22:
Just out of interest ... where did you get them and (if you want to disclose) how much did you pay? While I still have about 400 chips in stock might be good to know what the future market looks like.
Odd how/why they're relabeled ... considering the datecode remained identical.
Indeed, it's odd, I was expecting them to be totally fake, but they do all work fine, so far. It was also a batch of three original and three reworked ones.
The source of these were UTSource (and another single one from AliExpress, which was also similarily reworked - so I'm guessing they're coming from a common supplier in the backend).
The price was about 9.5 USD per piece excluding delivery (plus a 3 USD extra on Aliexpress and about 9 USD extra on UT), which is why I tried them and in the end, I'm perfectly happy with what I got, just curious about their reasons behind it.
I also put in repeated RFQs for the AKC variant (since they're listed as available there), but they always came back as 'no stock'. Other suppliers (like hkinventory, etc.) also either never answered or came back as unavailable. The only one I found that's still offering the AKC is on Ebay and probably the one you ordered yours a few years ago? 😉 For a small batch, though, his price for the AKC isn't really reasonable for a EU based buyer and he also didn't budge much on inquiry.
So, you might have a unique selling point there 😉