Franchise sent us pulled parts!

When did it get so bad? It is scary to be an independent distributor today. Actually we recently rejected product we received in from a major franchise distributor because they had been clearly used, marks from heat sinks, BGA balls were all contaminated with solder. Not the quality you would expect from a franchise distributor, right? Wrong if you think about it. Their quality control of receiving returns is obviously flawed. Someone sent them back pulled parts and they just put them back on their shelf ready to ship out to the next buyer. Our QC is tight enough that we caught this. What makes this worse is we rejected them, they gave us an RMA shipped us replacements and they were just as bad, so not once but twice and even after they were told that they shipped pulled parts. But keep in mind folks if you are buying from a franchise source you are safe, if you believe that then I would like to sell you a full proof system to earn a million dollars in 24 hours.  You, us are not safe in this market. We are plagued with an issue that is never going to go away, we can only learn how to work with it and get better at detecting bad product than they are at making it.  Stock-Point has recently brought in house equipment to help us screen for counterfeit components. This equipment includes the high end FocalSpot X-ray machine and Nisene decapsulation machine. You can read more about this equipment on our website at  http://stock-point.com/zero_tolerance_for_counterfeit_electronic_components_%20and_products.html

No matter who you are buying product from today you must know that they have stepped up and built an in house QC that details counterfeit detection.  

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