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Re: Low Threshold MOSFET

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: Low Threshold MOSFET
Date	2017-03-25 13:54 -0400
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On 3/25/2017 3:51 AM, tabbypurr@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, 24 March 2017 16:50:59 UTC, rickman  wrote:
>> On 3/24/2017 6:59 AM, tabbypurr wrote:
>>> On Friday, 24 March 2017 04:44:12 UTC, rickman  wrote:
>>>> On 3/23/2017 11:45 PM, tabbypurr wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:04:00 UTC, rickman  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I was checking this out and found the prices are >$0.20 even on ebay
>>>>>> buying 50 or more.  Then I checked aliexpress and found this one...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-100pcs-lot-FDN337N-screen-337-SOT-23-new-original/32718408974.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.18.ju58Ca&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_2_10065_10130_10068_433_434_10136_10137_10138_10060_10062_10141_10056_10055_10054_301_10059_201_10531_10099_10530_129_10103_10102_10096_10052_10053_10050_10107_10142_10051_10106_10143_10526_10529_10084_10083_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10037_10078_10079_10077_10073_10070_10122_10123_10124,searchweb201603_13,afswitch_1,ppcSwitch_5,single_sort_0_default&btsid=bc963ea4-0cae-4be3-95ba-e5fa2d2485cc&algo_expid=5043bdd6-47a3-424c-a756-09e1cbb36cd7-2&algo_pvid=5043bdd6-47a3-424c-a756-09e1cbb36cd7
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $2.80 for 100 with free shipping!  I would say that have to be fakes,
>>>>>> but this store has been online for 3 years with 100%.  How can they do
>>>>>> that?
>>>>>
>>>>> might be the genuine article but salvaged. Who knows.
>>>>
>>>> It would be hard to sell salvaged as new.  It would have solder on the
>>>> leads.  I don't know how they could even do the work to unsolder and
>>>> repackage the parts for that price!
>>>>
>>>> I'll find out in a few weeks if there's no longshoreman's strike and
>>>> customs doesn't seize anything.
>>>
>>> Not hard at all, it's done on a fair scale.
>>
>> What is done, selling salvage as new?  Selling salvage may be done all
>> the time, but I see pictures of people straightening pins with pliers
>> over solder pots.  I seriously doubt they can pass those parts as new
>> and even though it may be cost effective for some parts, it would be
>> rough to make much profit from $0.02 transistors after taping them.
>
> Lots of salvage is sold as new in China. It's quite doable. In some places parts are processed in the street, literally. 3rd world wages aren't exactly high. Some stuff is sold without remarking, some is black-topped and remarked to make all the parts on a reel look the same.
>
> $2.80 less 65c shipping is $2.15 income for someone. In some places people work for as little as 8p per 16 hour day (about 12c) - I've no idea what the pay is for component salvage, but $2.15 a 100 is well within doable.
>
> Of course that doesn't mean that's what these particular items are, but there's lots of salvage going on. Decent salvage is all tested, the worst is re-marked wrong parts.

How can they restore the length of TO-92 leads?

-- 

Rick C

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Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 00:34 -0400
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET "Lund-Nielsen, Jorgen" <jorgen.lund-nielsen@xyz123desy.de> - 2017-03-20 13:30 +0100
    Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 15:26 -0400
      Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2017-03-20 22:47 +0000
        Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 21:42 -0400
          Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-03-21 08:03 -0700
          Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2017-03-21 23:36 +0000
            Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-21 20:06 -0400
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Allan Herriman <allanherriman@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-20 12:56 +0000
    Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-03-20 06:34 -0700
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2017-03-20 13:08 +0000
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Tim Wescott <tim@seemywebsite.com> - 2017-03-20 11:03 -0500
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-03-20 15:59 -0700
    Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 22:29 -0400
      Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-03-21 08:00 -0700
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET "Tim Williams" <tiwill@seventransistorlabs.com> - 2017-03-21 01:02 -0500
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET kevin93 <kevin@whitedigs.com> - 2017-03-22 07:15 -0700
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org> - 2017-03-22 09:36 -0500
    Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 14:03 -0400
      Re: Low Threshold MOSFET John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org> - 2017-03-22 13:43 -0500
        Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-03-22 12:01 -0700
        Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 15:14 -0400
        Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 15:18 -0400
          Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-03-23 10:29 -0700
        Re: Low Threshold MOSFET John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org> - 2017-03-22 15:07 -0500
      Re: Low Threshold MOSFET tabbypurr@gmail.com - 2017-03-23 20:45 -0700
        Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 00:43 -0400
          Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2017-03-23 22:24 -0800
          Re: Low Threshold MOSFET tabbypurr@gmail.com - 2017-03-24 03:59 -0700
            Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 12:50 -0400
              Re: Low Threshold MOSFET tabbypurr@gmail.com - 2017-03-25 00:51 -0700
                Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-03-25 09:47 -0700
                Re: Low Threshold MOSFET rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 13:54 -0400
      Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-03-24 09:37 -0700
  Re: Low Threshold MOSFET Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2017-03-22 20:40 -0800

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