So when looking for ic's on ebay, I automatically exclude items from you know where. Doing 1 search for 68000/68008 and related ic's just moments ago, something turned up that although didn't ship from china, was made there. Alright specifying country of origin doesn't mean the parts couldn't have been made somewhere else, this is clear. But it just makes me wonder if anything we buy these days is anything but chinese made. And the uncertainty makes me a little sick, to the degree I want nothing whatsoever to do with mail order parts. There is a category of stuff that's sometimes out there that's so specialized, you can be pretty sure the stuff is original. But not your 80x86, 680x0, etc. Stuff.

There was a discussion about this on a different forum sometime ago. It was revealed that these shops will go to any lenghts to "create" (???) or refurbish old parts to make them look new. I was wondering if anyone on this board has any specific insights.into this.