There's so much fake stuff on eBay in the IC world. As someone who was looking to get into the retro electronics hobby, I'm bumped into a ton of fakes on eBay.

There's so much fake stuff on eBay in the IC world. As someone who was looking to get into the retro electronics hobby, I'm bumped into a ton of fakes on eBay. I'm amazed that there are sellers in China who find it worth their while to fake "ancient" chips like the Intel 286 and Motorola 68040 and 68060. In the former case, they took lower speed parts and rebadged them as higher speed components and in the latter case, some are downright fakes that don't function.