Pete Thanks for the link. Now it explains where they come from and what condition they are in. Again I like to warn against ggg*fitting that sell Morion as NEW and did sell FE 5680A as NEW. I did mail my very used sold as NEW back to them so someone will get it if you continue to buy from them. They agreed to reimburse me for shipping but as you see below now threaten me if I do not give them a positive review. Look at shipping cost some of it is off the top! It is time to take a breather and we will se a drop in prices. There is a limited market and we are at least 50% "We in the description, indicate the is used. We have to make the best possible treatment, a full refund to you, and pay for shipping costs $13.17 If you don't change the positive 5 star feedback, we don't pay $13.17 to you!! To trouble you, I'm so sorry!" I will not change my feedback ggg are crooks and they know it. Be carefully, there are other choices. Bert Kehren
In a message dated 2/26/2012 1:42:42 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, bell.pe...@gmail.com writes: I suspect a lot of the ebay sellers are buying stuff from Taobao and just reselling it. For example, this appears to be the original source of the FE-5680As which were supplied with the OCXO and socket (although he seems to have run out of OCXOs now) http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=12204039399 - the price is interesting, too - 90 RMB (about $15). Of course, they generally won't ship to addresses outside China. The bit of his website dealing with oscillators is interesting, too (in Chinese, but lots of photos) - I suspect some of the other stuff being sold on ebay is being sourced from him: http://www.dz98.com/an.htm Regards, Pete Bell _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.